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US Burns Through All High-Skill Visas For 2015 In Less Than A Week

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Bill on special visas for Iraqis heads to Obama

WASHINGTON (AP) — A measure to provide special visas for Iraqis who risked their lives to help the United States is heading to President Barack Obama.

By voice vote Thursday, the Senate passed the measure. The House had approved it late Thursday.

The special visa has allowed more than 12,000 Iraqi contractors, interpreters and others who aided U.S. efforts, and their family members, to move to the United States since 2007. It expired earlier this week, with an estimated 2,000 applications still pending.

The program was created during the worst years of the Iraq war, with Iraqis who helped U.S. forces facing targeted killings, death threats and other forms of harassment. The goal was to resettle them in the United States faster than the often protracted general refugee process might allow.

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Kerry: Same-sex spouses" visas will get equal treatment

• NEW: The change is expected to increase visa applications from same-sex spouses


• Secretary of State John Kerry says all couples now will be treated the same


• The policy covers same-sex spouses of Americans and foreigners


• The change follows a major Supreme Court ruling on same-sex marriage

(CNN) — Legally married same-sex spouses seeking U.S. visas will now be treated the same as opposite-sex spouses, Secretary of State John Kerry announced Friday.

Kerry told a meeting with consular staff in London that the change means that his department was “tearing down an unjust and an unfair barrier that for too long stood in the way of same-sex families being able to travel as a family to the United States.”

Beginning immediately, same-sex spouses of both U.S. citizens and foreigners will be treated equally as opposite-sex spouses, Kerry explained.

“As long as a marriage has been performed in a jurisdiction that recognizes it so that it is legal, then that marriage is legal under U.S. law, and every married couple would be treated exactly the same,” he said.

A State Department official told CNN on condition of not being identified that the change was expected to immediately affect up to 100 applicants. The official said the department expected the number of applicants from same-sex spouses to increase with expanded awareness of the new policy.

Kerry’s announcement followed a June ruling by the Supreme Court that struck down a key part of a law that denied legally married same-sex couples the same federal benefits provided heterosexual spouses.

On a 5-4 vote, the high court struck down part of the Defense of Marriage Act, which defines marriage as only between a man and a woman.

Under DOMA, Social Security, pension and bankruptcy benefits, along with family medical leave protections and other federal provisions, did not apply to gay and lesbian couples legally married in states that recognize such unions.

At issue was whether DOMA violated equal protection guarantees in the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause as applied to same-sex couples legally married under the laws of their states.

What you need to know about same-sex marriage in the U.S. around the world

CNN’s Jamie Crawford contributed to this report, which was reported by Jill Dougherty and written by Tom Cohen in Washington.

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Kerry: Same-sex spouses" visas will get equal treatment