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She she has told one section of the US Government she is single and the other she is married.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/14/father-of-new-zealand-woman-held-in-us-by-ice-along-with-six-year-old-son-voices-hope-for-release-ntwnfb https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/13/new-zealand-woman-six-year-old-son-ice-detention-us-ntwnfb Guardian but little info https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/australasia/new-zealand-woman-detained-ice-immigration-b2806701.html Independent equally vague Hard to believe she was sponsored for this job, so on whatever basis she came I think it is reasonable to assume when she got her EAD (VAWA?) she switched to the job which of course would mean abandoning her old status. So lets say she did have a Visa related to her prior position, she was not seeking entry to do that job assuming the Visa was still valid. I am intrigued now, nothing I could see on BBC. Update did find one reference to VAWA but no clarification on how she entered. Lots of mention of Administrative Error but not what or by whom.

I think the Lawyer came into it after she left assuming the tenses are right. But lack of detail is perhaps unsurprising.

I assume Dad is back in NZ? Anyway Reporter clearly has no idea what a Visa is.

Which are rarely issued now.

It would be interesting toknow what the visa she thought she had is.

I can not be certain but think the Lawyers came in after the event.

Check and double check the documents are legit. They will be checked.

I have not been to DC for sometime, remember being shocked that the central core was what you saw on the TV but outside of that, just a few blocks, well ouch.

https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/washington-state-employee-young-son-detained-by-ice-canadian-border/281-a2c9f151-800a-4346-812a-14f13328b6da Sarah Shaw crossed into Canada mistakenly thinking she had the proper visa to return home to Everett. She and her 6-year-old son are now being held in Texas. I thought this was interesting, well an example of the usual standard of Journalism sic and the GoFundMe is amusing https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-sarah-and-isaacs-fight-for-freedom The story is contradictory as if her then husband had indeed sponsored her why would she be applying for a GC? And what Visa could she possibly have had had that was still valid 31/2 years later? The only one that fits would be the K3 but that seems highly unlikely. My money is her coming as a visitor with presumably 3 children, marrying, maybe filing to adjust, divorcing and then VAWA. She has EAD but not AP.

You can certainly interview before the Consulate receives the medical. Happens

I see an awful lot of assumptions

Needs EAD to work before GC

You would not want someone with a contagious disease on an Airplane

Sounds like AP

And have a Plan B

It is just a form, filling it is is not exactly difficult

She can certainly seek an emergency appointment Neither you or your son need a visa, begs the question why do you not fly today when it is so urgent?

Still not true whatever they are

i suppose anyone can file a I 485 but you need a basis for it to be approved

Not true

That makes no sense

Probably worth having a chat with your Lawyer, however seems you are stuck in a black hole and need SAVE to sort things out.

You can file the I 130 once you have met

PD is someways out and she has already aged out