⚠️ How to respond to RFE with no new evidence? (VAWA I-360)

[DavisC 1]

Hi everyone. I just joined this forum. I hope I can summarize this as briefly as possible. 

My attorney just forwarded me the RFE letter from USCIS. According to this, there's very little evidence about my marriage and that I was abused.

 

The RFE might have been triggered because my attorney requested an expedite for my EAD (work authorization). I'm currently on a leave of absence from work.

 

My VAWA case was submitted sometime in January 2020.

 

Here are some bullet points from the RFE:

• "You did not submit sufficient evidence to establish your eligibility under the self-petitioning provisions of the Violence Against Women Act"
• USCIS notes that Marriage certificate and restraining order was submitted "however, it does not provide evidence that marriage was entered in good faith"
• Joint tax return from the past 4 years were submitted but apparently there's no evidence that tax return was filed with the IRS 🤷🏻‍♂️
• Requesting more evidence such as joint lease, rental agreement, insurance policies, utility, bank statement etc., and more evidence for extreme cruelty and battery.

 

 

In the past, we lived for about 3 years at/with her parents so there was no rent agreement or utility bills. I did submit a lot of bank statements, car insurance, joint bank account, internet provider etc. For the restraining oder I did describe the abuse back then at court to get the TRO. I had photo evidence of my injury.

Overall the marriage has been very messy and I tried to get as much evidence as possible but it was very difficult since my wife had most of the documents at her place.

 

Now my attorney says that "we have some evidence that we can use". But is that enough?

 

I've moved on long time from my past but every time I receive such a notice from the USCIS it always scares me and all I have is deportation in my head. Any advice would be great.

 

In another immigration community forum I people suggested me to get a psychological immigration evaluation. I wonder if this still makes sense for addition evidence when the abuse happened years ago.

 

Appreciate all the response

[Timona 4,207]

Here's the VAWA section 

[DavisC 1]

4 minutes ago, Timona said:

Here's the VAWA section 

Ohhh my bad. I was actually in that VAWA section. I thought creating a new topic just means creating my own conversation within that section. 

[Ontarkie 14,280]

4 hours ago, DavisC said:

Ohhh my bad. I was actually in that VAWA section. I thought creating a new topic just means creating my own conversation within that section. 

The entire Effects forum is for anyone to post VAWA questions. You do not need to post in the mega thread. That is what the whole forum is for, you can if you would like but no need to stay just to that thread.

4 hours ago, Timona said:

Here's the VAWA section 

The whole forum is for similar Thread. Members do not need to stick to the mega thread. 

Edited August 3, 2022 by Ontarkie