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Jun 25, 2007
Quickie Link: Gays Find a Struggle Bringing Partners Into U.S.
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By vanrozenheim
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(USA) - After a trip 14 years ago to Thailand, where he met the man he would eventually marry, Bruce MacDonald began searching for a way - any way - for them to be together. A student visa offered no permanent solution for Suratin Rianpracha, then 27, to live in the U.S., and the possibility of sponsorship by a U.S. employer seemed remote, at best, for someone in the shrimping industry. MacDonald, who is in his 50s, briefly considered moving to Thailand but knew he wouldn't earn enough as a medical social worker to live there comfortably. So seven years ago, he relocated to Canada, which granted visas to both men, and they settled in Vancouver's west end.
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