total indifference to spousal persecution

[N360 0]

My wife and I applied in May of 2007 to the CSC. We did the 129/130 route and like many filers are stuck in limbo.

Due to our marriage being in a country that does not have an embassy we were told that by law we have to use the nearby embassy at PNG.

I retained a lawyer here in the states and was told that these were taking 2 months, 3 at the most.

With that in mind I came home in May and filed the petitions.

At the first of August my wife's contract expired and she went to PNG from our orginal country to wait out what should have been one more month.

She had a visa and was staying with her brother. It was for 60 days

At the end of 60 days we still had no answer.

I contacted the local congressmans office and was reassured that they were only too happy to help.

Our situation is complicated in that she is Filipina. She obtained a legal divorce in the country we were staying in. Her husband had disappeared some time before. (3 years). She was granted full custody of the children.

We were legally marriedin March. I left in May.

By God's help we were able to extend her visa by thirty days. That brought us to the end of October.

We still did not have an approval. Her visa expired on the thirtieth of the month and she was allowed again by divine intervention to remain there for the last few weeks.

As of now, we are still not approved. She must leave for the Philippines in a week.

As the Philippines does not recognize her right to divorce then our marriage is not recognized. Therefore it is doubtful

I will ever get her here. She will not be able to leave the country on a K-3 obviously.

We pleaded with the CSC for an exception. We have done all we can. They simply do not care.

Thank you USCIS. I have now lost forever the woman of my dreams as well as the two children to whom I am the only father they have ever known.

Anybody with any advice or help would be appreciated.

Sorry for all your troubles heartbroken.

I apologize because this is really not an advice. I'm just a bit curious on why didnt you file an annulment in the PI?

Although there is no divorce in the Philippines, the country allows annulment. With a lawyer, a little bit of patience, and little bit of dough, annulment is granted 99.9% of the time.

You then would have been able to file a K1 or get married in the PI and file a K3 if you so desire.

[heartbroken 0]

My wife and I applied in May of 2007 to the CSC. We did the 129/130 route and like many filers are stuck in limbo.

Due to our marriage being in a country that does not have an embassy we were told that by law we have to use the nearby embassy at PNG.

I retained a lawyer here in the states and was told that these were taking 2 months, 3 at the most.

With that in mind I came home in May and filed the petitions.

At the first of August my wife's contract expired and she went to PNG from our orginal country to wait out what should have been one more month.

She had a visa and was staying with her brother. It was for 60 days

At the end of 60 days we still had no answer.

I contacted the local congressmans office and was reassured that they were only too happy to help.

Our situation is complicated in that she is Filipina. She obtained a legal divorce in the country we were staying in. Her husband had disappeared some time before. (3 years). She was granted full custody of the children.

We were legally marriedin March. I left in May.

By God's help we were able to extend her visa by thirty days. That brought us to the end of October.

We still did not have an approval. Her visa expired on the thirtieth of the month and she was allowed again by divine intervention to remain there for the last few weeks.

As of now, we are still not approved. She must leave for the Philippines in a week.

As the Philippines does not recognize her right to divorce then our marriage is not recognized. Therefore it is doubtful

I will ever get her here. She will not be able to leave the country on a K-3 obviously.

We pleaded with the CSC for an exception. We have done all we can. They simply do not care.

Thank you USCIS. I have now lost forever the woman of my dreams as well as the two children to whom I am the only father they have ever known.

Anybody with any advice or help would be appreciated.

Sorry for all your troubles heartbroken.

I apologize because this is really not an advice. I'm just a bit curious on why didnt you file an annulment in the PI?

Although there is no divorce in the Philippines, the country allows annulment. With a lawyer, a little bit of patience, and little bit of dough, annulment is granted 99.9% of the time.

You then would have been able to file a K1 or get married in the PI and file a K3 if you so desire.

Fair enough question. We were going to do that eventually however since we were living outside the PI at the time and had been for several years we had no intention of having to go back there.

[desert_fox 32]

It is not clear to me reading through this if you have an approved petition yet from the CSC that has been sent to the State Dept. Is your problem with the CSC (USCIS), or with the State Dept, or with the embassy?? Why go back to PI at all??...go back to where you lived where you had legal residence??

[heartbroken 0]

It is not clear to me reading through this if you have an approved petition yet from the CSC that has been sent to the State Dept. Is your problem with the CSC (USCIS), or with the State Dept, or with the embassy?? Why go back to PI at all??...go back to where you lived where you had legal residence??

Our petition was approved I believe on the 9th. Ihave the website confirmation of the mailing on the 16th but no hard copy yet. Ours is a time crunch at this point. It takes too long to get an approval to return to our previous location (6 weeks) so we are at the mercy of the transport from CSC to NVC. Once there we can move quickly.

[desert_fox 32]

It is not clear to me reading through this if you have an approved petition yet from the CSC that has been sent to the State Dept. Is your problem with the CSC (USCIS), or with the State Dept, or with the embassy?? Why go back to PI at all??...go back to where you lived where you had legal residence??

Our petition was approved I believe on the 9th. Ihave the website confirmation of the mailing on the 16th but no hard copy yet. Ours is a time crunch at this point. It takes too long to get an approval to return to our previous location (6 weeks) so we are at the mercy of the transport from CSC to NVC. Once there we can move quickly.

Once received at the NVC, I don think they do anything more except assign a case number and send it on to the Consulate. Once it is received at the Consulate it may take weeks to months to schedule an interview.

So it seems that your problem is getting back into PNG for the interview.

So I cant see what the CSC has to do with anything now. It is all withing the State Department.

[Urge To Race 2]

heartbroken's original "problem" was with the CSC, as in they didn't have approval.... but that came through after the thread was started.

It is not clear to me reading through this if you have an approved petition yet from the CSC that has been sent to the State Dept. Is your problem with the CSC (USCIS), or with the State Dept, or with the embassy?? Why go back to PI at all??...go back to where you lived where you had legal residence??

Our petition was approved I believe on the 9th. Ihave the website confirmation of the mailing on the 16th but no hard copy yet. Ours is a time crunch at this point. It takes too long to get an approval to return to our previous location (6 weeks) so we are at the mercy of the transport from CSC to NVC. Once there we can move quickly.

Once received at the NVC, I don think they do anything more except assign a case number and send it on to the Consulate. Once it is received at the Consulate it may take weeks to months to schedule an interview.

So it seems that your problem is getting back into PNG for the interview.

So I cant see what the CSC has to do with anything now. It is all withing the State Department.