my family as well as give up my job of 18 1/2 years. It was almost like death". They returned to the U.S., lived in Los Angeles, and avoided high-profile activism that might attract the attention of immigration authorities. Adams worked for a law firm as an administrator until his retirement in 2010. After retirement, Adams and Sullivan made some appearances at events supporting same-sex marriage. Adams died at his Los Angeles home on December 17, 2012, after a short illness. Sullivan survived him. On April 21, 2014, on their 39th wedding anniversary, Sullivan filed a motion with the Los Angeles Field Office of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to reopen and reconsider his late husband's petition for a marriage-based green card which that office had denied. Limited Partnership, a documentary telling the couple's story, was released by Tesseract Films in 2014. On January 5, 2014, the USCIS approved Adams' immigrant visa petition filed in 1975 on behalf of his husband. Sullivan received his green card in April 2016. United States v Windsor The decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in United States v. Windsor in June 2013 established that the federal government treats the term spouse as gender-neutral. On July 1, 2013, Janet Napolitano, director of the Department of Homeland Security directed the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to "review immigration visa petitions filed on behalf of a same-sex spouse in the same manner as those filed on behalf of an opposite-sex spouse." References External links Adams v. Howerton, U.S. District Court, February 25, 1980, accessed March 26, 2015 Adams v. Howerton, Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, February 25, 1982, accessed March 26, 2015 Blythe Wygonik, "Refocus on the Family: Exploring the Complications in Granting the Family Immigration Benefit to Gay and Lesbian United States Citizens", 45 Santa Clara L. Rev. 493 (2005), accessed December 24, 2012 Robert Barnes, "40 years later, story of a same-sex marriage in Colo. remains remarkable", Washington Post, April 18, 2015, accessed April 18, 2015 United States substantive due process case law United States same-sex union case law 1982 in LGBT history 1982 in United States case law United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit cases