littlepeanut25

Hi all,

I’m not in process for US visa and not planning to. I’m here just to secretly ask and help a friend of mine who is there in California at the moment. She got sponsored by her husband on spouse visa to come to the state, they have 3 yrs kid. As soon as she got to US she found out he has a big debt because of gambling. Of course she doesn’t want to divorce because she think she has to pay it, but her husband keeps playing and building the debt up. Whenever she tries to convince him to give up, he bullies her, sends text message and say she a bad person...I believe there is no physical violence so far, only mentally. They are living with his parents at this stage, she has no job and now studies a cert to be able to work. She is now really depressed, she wants to divorce but she is scared of loosing her child since she has no job and has to go back to the country. She now has 2 yrs green card. I’m really wondering and trying to find if there is a good way for her to remain safely, away from her husband in the State with her kid? Her English is still quite limited.

Thank you, and please help.

The paper got certified by the Vietnamese Embassy in the US. I know it sounds weird but back to long time ago to people in Vietnam, handwritten divorce is pretty normal.

Thanks for all the guides. As I know, he got married in Vietnam and divorced not long after they arrived the US, they divorced by handwritten paper. Then the ex moved to another state and no contact has been keeping since then. But I seriously need to get more info and follow this case somehow from Australia because my mom just can speak basic simply English. 

Somethings might be misunderstood by my english.

- my mum's current husband got married and divorced his ex-wife but only by hand written paper.

- my mum and her husband is now still married, they submitted his divorce paper with the ex but the officer wanted another divorce paper, not hand written one but my mum current husband can't contact his ex-wife.

-> so my mum is still married.

hope this is clearer

But one more thing I knew is her husband divorced long time ago by hand written paper. And the officer didn't thing that is good enough but he couldn't contact his ex-wife.

Thanks. I sent the USCIS an email. I'm from the other side of the world so not many things I could do. But yes I should look this up earlier. I have always been worried for this but just thought I couldn't do anything from here. My bad 😞

She came on tourist visa. I knew it wasn't a good way but at that stage we had no choice when my family went bankrupt. I was assuming the letter gone missing or somehow but she said she checks frequently. And she married a USC by the way. No interview yet, only bio and health check so far.

Hi all,

I am new to this group, and here just to help my mom out, not myself as I am not planning to move. I am not sure if  I am posting this on the right group, if not please take it easy and guide me where to post. Thanks.

My mom came to the US about 10 yrs ago, I am not sure when she got married, but she got a notice for finger print taking on 06/04/2013. They told her paper will be sending out in couple weeks, so she couldn't do anything else except waiting since then. I got really confused and frustrated whenever we talk about this and decided to look for an answer. She gave me her USCIS number to look it up on the website but it said the number is invalid. It's been 4 yrs so far so I would really appreciate this if someone could tell me what should I do to follow up my mom's case.

Thank you so much,

Peanut.