The letter's signers included the Empire State Pride Agenda, Lambda Legal, the New York City Anti-Violence Project, the LGBT Community Center and the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, the Callen - Lorde Community Health Center, Gay
Men's Health Crisis, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund,
Immigration Equality, the Family Equality Council, SAGE (
Services & Advocacy for GLBT Elders), the GRIOT Circle: a gathering
of elders, and several organizations advocating on behalf
of LGBT young people, including FIERCE, the Hetrick - Martin Institute, and Streetwise and Safe.
Determined to conform to Federal Government's directive on the ease
of doing business in the Country as well as check corruption among its personnel, the Nigeria
Immigration Service (NIS), has redeployed 518 officers and
men from five (5) major International Airports.
The Hogan Lovells team filed the
man's Application for Asylum with the US Citizenship and
Immigration Services asserting prior persecution based on sexual orientation while living in Nigeria, as well as a well - founded fear
of future persecution based on sexual orientation if he returned to Nigeria.