Got married on a K1 in March, filed for an annulment and husband took off.

[N and J 88]

Can someone please tell me who I can contact or what my next step would be. I brought my fiancé here on a K1 visa, we got married and after a month he turned into a completely different person. I told him I filed for an annulment (I told him on thursday April 10) on April 11, his passport and all his money was gone and the house key was left on the bed. I have emails from his friend asking me to keep him here and give him his papers, to let him live some place else. I told him he was crazy and there is no way in hell I am committing fraud. I emailed ICE and called USCIS, I found out now he is living in my neighbors house and only comes out when he thinks I am not home. What do I do? I don't want him here. He tries to talk to my daughter and waves to her. My biggest fear is he will take her to hurt me! Someone please help me. I really had no idea he was going to run on me. I truly thought he loved me, he was completely different. He thought our country was great and when he got here our country was #######! His country was the best and everything there was the best. He also undressed in front of my daughter twice.....I told him that is disgusting that we don't do that here. I told him if he did it again after I asked him not to he would have to leave. There was just so many things that went wrong, I couldn't stay with someone like that. I have the emails proving he is trying to get me to commit fraud, but where do I go from here? Who do I call? My mom sponsored him, her pension and Social Security is in jeopardy. He doesn't care and nether does my neighbor. My neighbor is on section 8, I will call them on Monday to report him having him in there. Please someone help, I feel unsafe and don't trust him at this point. I have called the police and they told me the only thing they can do is come here and tell him to leave me alone when he bothers me. Any help will be greatly appreciated.

[JohnR! 5,495]

You don't need to do anything. If your marriage was in fact annulled it is as though it never took place, and your former fiance will be out of status once his 90 days expire. He will not be able to AOS even if he marries someone else.

You can get a restraining order to keep him from having contact with your daughter and yourself.

[NikLR 13,220]

If you have not done the AOS then no one's social security or pension is in jeopardy. The I-134 is not a legally binding form.

At least you can tell ICE where to find him when he goes out of status.

[lamigra 2]

Don't worry about committing fraud as long as you married him in good faith. If he bothers you or your daughter, call the police. If they are doing their job, they will notify immigration. If he has a copy of the marraige certificate, he can file the I-485 Application to Adjust Status, and applications for employment authorization and an advance parole. He will more than likely receive the employment doc and advance parole, but once he is scheduled for the interview and shows up without you or if he doesn't show up for the interview, he will be denied. Once he gets the employment doc, he can get a social security card, driver's license etc and fade off into the population like the millions of others who have overstayed their visas. The guy must be incredibly stupid not to play it out for a coupla years until his conditional LPR status was over.

I was an immigration examiner for many years and believe me, your case in not uncommon. I've had cases where an alien divorced his wife in Nigeria, married a US citizen, became a permanent resident, got the conditional status removed after 2 years, became a citizen after 3 years, divorced his US citizen wife, go back to Nigeria, remarry his original wife and then petition for her and their kids.

Since I retired from INS/CIS I now do immigration work. Too often I have someone looking to file a I-129F. The US citizen is often an old guy who met a 19 year old Russian girl on line or thru an agency, flies to Russia to meet her and then wants to bring her here.

[ckurt 23]

Do you mind telling us which country?

[N and J 88]

He is from Algeria. I went there and spent a month with him and his family....it seemed great. He was the same person I was talking to from the day I met him. When he got here his personality completely changed. My mother even noticed a difference. We figured...Someone in a new country going through all these changes but it wasn't. He had no personality now. He barely spoke and when he did it was to explain to me that the USA is ####### and his country is great. I had many fights with him telling him "I find it odd that the US is such ####### when we have people fighting to get visas here all day every day and we have a visa lottery...What does Algeria have? I don't see people jumping boarder or fighting to get into there." Before he was all supportive of school, when he got here he wanted me to drop out. I'm getting ready to apply to graduate schools. I didn't come all this way to drop out of school. I was never expecting someone to change me. He tells me he is embarrassed to go home. I told his friend he just wanted a visa here and thought I wouldn't see through his BS when he got here. I married him in good faith, my mom felt like he was her own and couldn't wait for him to be here....once he got here her comment to me was "I really think he had a twin and sent the other one here because this is not the same person" There is nothing more I can't stand than someone who comes here illegally and gets everything....I always felt do it the right way. That is why as soon as I realized he wasn't coming back I emailed ICE twice and Social Security because he has a SS #. I won't let him fade. I will continue to email and call ICE. I have friends that come from other countries (Germany, Sweden, and Italy) to visit me, they use my name as a contact. I don't want this messing me up in the future. I found porn on my computer....He was watching it while my daughter was awake in the house and the changing in front of a child is not acceptable. It was when I confronted him that I decided I didn't trust him and I didn't want to be with him. It was just too many ODD things that I couldn't overlook. Especially when it porno movies while my daughter is awake and changing in front of her, it is just odd....

[N and J 88]

Thank you for all your replies. My mom has literally been sick to her stomach. I really appreciate at the replies. I now feel a little more relaxed. Though on the 90th day I will be calling ICE and emailing them daily to tell them to come get him. He has no reason to be here. To be 100% honest he is not that smart. Someone told him to run and I am assuming it was his friend in Algeria who messaged me. My ex lacks common sense and will surly never get a job. Also, if he decides to try to blend in and go into hiding his passport expires in 10 months. He will not have a valid form of ID.

[KayDeeCee 4,891]

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[ckurt 23]

Good luck to you

[Hollyday 122]

Since I retired from INS/CIS I now do immigration work. Too often I have someone looking to file a I-129F. The US citizen is often an old guy who met a 19 year old Russian girl on line or thru an agency, flies to Russia to meet her and then wants to bring her here.

..How did Russia get dragged in into this? Is it the only country with which it happens?

OP, please take care of your own and your family's personal safety. I hope it works out for you with the annulment.

[Avery Cates 1,141]

Don't worry about committing fraud as long as you married him in good faith. If he bothers you or your daughter, call the police. If they are doing their job, they will notify immigration. If he has a copy of the marraige certificate, he can file the I-485 Application to Adjust Status, and applications for employment authorization and an advance parole. He will more than likely receive the employment doc and advance parole, but once he is scheduled for the interview and shows up without you or if he doesn't show up for the interview, he will be denied. Once he gets the employment doc, he can get a social security card, driver's license etc and fade off into the population like the millions of others who have overstayed their visas. The guy must be incredibly stupid not to play it out for a coupla years until his conditional LPR status was over.

He won't receive EAD, AP, or AOS without a signed and completed I-864 from the petitioner.

[JayJayH 546]

I'm confused.

Did you file for AOS? Was it approved? Does he have his conditional green card or did he leave before AOS was complete? Has the annulment been granted?

These are important to know for a couple of reasons. If annulment was granted and/or the AOS has not yet been approved, he is, as they say, 'screwed.'

First, as Gegel mentions, an annulment is basically a reversal of the marriage, so rather than being a divorce, it never existed legally. He cannot adjust status based on a marriage that never legally existed. Second, even if you did not get the annulment granted, he cannot adjust status by himself, without you present at the interview. As lamigra said, he might get his work authorization (a scammer can always attempt to forge an I-864 signature), but I'd like to see his face when he realizes he'll have to go to an interview (with you) to prove that the marriage is bona fide.

A person who entered the US on a K-1 visa cannot adjust status in any other way than through a bona fide marriage with the person who originally filed their I-129f petition. He could remain in the US illegally for 20 years, meet the love of his life, get married. He still can't adjust on any other marriage than to you.

The problem arises if AOS was granted prior to the annulment or divorce was filed. If AOS was approved, he is now a conditional permanent resident for two years. In two years, he can petition to remove the conditions on his green card. There is a divorce waiver, which also applies if the marriage was annulled - So long as it was entered into in good faith. Meaning, if he has a conditional green card already, there is little you can do except to make sure USCIS has a red flag planted firmly in his file.

That being said, changing after one arrives in the US does not automatically mean scam, and is itself, not proof of anything. He could have married you in good faith, arrived in the US, realized it (and you) wasn't for him. Nothing illegal. And if he can convince the USCIS of this story when he files for removal of conditions, his conditional green card will become permanent.

Of course, you having proof that he's willing to commit fraud to stay in the country is a fairly large red flag in his file.

Edited April 19, 2014 by Yang-Ja

[Boiler 43,363]

Though on the 90th day I will be calling ICE and emailing them daily to tell them to come get him. He has no reason to be here.

I had to laugh at that.

Edited April 19, 2014 by Boiler

[N and J 88]

Yang-Ja

I never filed the paperwork for his AOS, I saw things weren't going right and wanted to wait. It wasn't so much that he "changed" it was what changed in him that just wasn't right. Then, the emails started coming from his friend saying "just file his paperwork and he never has to come back to your house." "Let him rest in the US and leave him alone." The best one was "he only wanted his papers after the two years" to me he did not marry in good faith. He and his friend are under the impression that once you get married you get full rights to be here. His friend kept telling me that he knows the laws in the US and he has the right to be here, that i need his signature for a divorce. (I don't need his signature for anything) the annulment has not been granted yet, but it will be. They have to wait 35 days for no response in order to enter it as "granted by default." I sat down an explained everything to him the night before he took off. I told him that we will file the paperwork and he can go home. We can do it the right way. I explained everything we had to do. Obviously he had other plans after that. It makes me very uncomfortable that my neighbor has him there.

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