Immigration OK for gay couple's LI stay
Photo credit: Randee Daddona | Tim Smulian (left) serves tea tea to Edwin Blesch at their Orient home. Tim Smulian, who is from South Africa, will be able to stay in the U.S for another year under a reprieve from the Obama administration. (Feb. 10, 2012)
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U.S. immigration officials have granted a rare reprieve to a gay South African national, allowing a Long Island same-sex couple to stay together in their Orient home.
Tim Smulian, 65, can now remain in the United States for a full year rather than having to leave the country and re-enter on a six-month tourist visa. Smulian married Orient resident Edwin Blesch in South Africa in 2007 but visa...
