[영문]Immigration legislation acts like a border around national identity. Along with race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality are pivotal categories that immigration law and border control have employed to bolster both the domestication of women and an accompanying heternormative sexual partnering while excluding those who offer or represent alternative conceptions of these categories.1 To gain entrance, immigrants must present themselves as gendered and sexual beings recognizable (and acceptable) to immigration and court officials. Lawyers and advocacy groups assist petitioners in this process, sometimes helping them to either disguise or camouflage themselves in order to cross the line into acceptability. While these (re)constructions toward acceptability can open doors for the particular petitioner and for others in similar circumstances, they can also provide the basis for the universalization of the categories that inform the discourse around gender and sexual norms of the legislation itself.