surferita

My case got approved on March 1 of this year approximately but i'm still waiting for the next letter to tell me what is the next step, interview or whatever i'm kind of starting to worry, anybody in the same place right now?

thanks!

My case got approved on March 1 of this year approximately but i'm still waiting for the next letter to tell me what is the next step, interview or whatever i'm kind of starting to worry, anybody in the same place right now?

thanks!

hello all members

To all who been trough Vawa have you ever been to court during or after your case approved ? or do you have to go to court when you have a vawa case..

Im just wondering cause somebody telling me , you can not travel around the US while your VAWA is pending ..

I was gonna move to California ,taking a plane ...

I have no ID Only passport ..Their making me confused is somebody can answer my question pls ..I really really appreciate any answers

Thank you and GOD bless

I had an advance parole, I have been in mexico and france while my vawa case was pending.

Hope this helps.

Hi suferia,

What I have read from senior members experiences thay have said that they do not ask any question related to your I 360 and will ask only from I 485 and they usually ask very simple question and may ask you to see the documents which they need you to bring to the interview. You may go back to this forum pages and can know about those.

I have some questions from you that have you got your interview date and Did you submitted your medical along with the AOS package or you will take it to the interview directly?

Thank you deeplyhurted!

I already have a work permit and I already submitted my medical and blah when my husband and I were together so I'm not sure what's left, the proccess with my husband was paused by my lawyer when we started VAWA.

Can somebody please say what question was he or she asked at the interview? I will go with my lawyer but I'm still panicking...

Wolfsdorf Immigration Law Group

www.wolfsdorf.com

1416 2nd Street

Santa Monica, CA 90401

(310) 570-4088

I paid $7,000

My case was approved in 5 months

Ok, as you guys know my VAWA case got approved, i'm waiting for the letter tho to know what else i need to do, i already had an AED and SSN, will i have to go thru an interview anyways? what's next?

Please and Thank you.

Today, my VAWA case got approved, 5 month exactly after submitting it, what did i submit with my case? witnesses reports of the battery and abuse, hospital receipts, emails of my husband threatening me, TROs and of course, the official paperwork for vawa cases.

Thank you so much to the people in this forum that helped me and hope karma pays back to the trolls that tried to put me down.

Hope everybody gets good news soon.

thanks again.

Well, according to the doctor that they sent me to make a detail report of the psychological damages that my husband has caused me...

VAWA was not created to allow people with hurt feelings to immigrate if they can't make their marriage work. it was created to allow people who had actually been "abused" to escape abusive marriage without inconvenience. if you had to be sent to a psychologist to explore your psyche to discover whether you had been abused, you weren't. on another note, if you were foolish enough to marry a bi-polar you already knew that you were walking into an unstable relationship, yet chose to do so anyway. surely you made the choice for some reason.

As i have already explain somewhere else in this Forum, I didn't know how sick he was till we got married.

Another thing, having a psychological problem and being american doesn't give you the RIGHT to beat up anybody and they have to shut up and don't tell,

I needed a psychological report, just in case the letters to his family, my school, my family and the report that I had at my country newspaper about me closing myself in a bedroom for a week because I was scared of him abusing, harassing and extortioning me wasn't enough, I think thats something that most of the VAWA women go through, at least that's what my lawyer said, never my idea.

Of course i didn't know how sick he was, while our engagement he was retained in a psychiatric for some inappropriate behavior at the school where he was kicked out of, he never wanted to talk about it and i guess for some reason i never thought it was that serious to have to find out, i found out this not so long ago but now thanks to the transcript from the hearing i know meds that he is taking and all his mental sickness and conditions.

Bipolar, esquizofrenia, depression, etc

Well, according to the doctor that they sent me to make a detail report of the psychological damages that my husband has caused me...

VAWA was not created to allow people with hurt feelings to immigrate if they can't make their marriage work. it was created to allow people who had actually been "abused" to escape abusive marriage without inconvenience. if you had to be sent to a psychologist to explore your psyche to discover whether you had been abused, you weren't. on another note, if you were foolish enough to marry a bi-polar you already knew that you were walking into an unstable relationship, yet chose to do so anyway. surely you made the choice for some reason.

As i have already explain somewhere else in this Forum, I didn't know how sick he was till we got married.

Another thing, having a psychological problem and being american doesn't give you the RIGHT to beat up anybody and they have to shut up and don't tell,

I needed a psychological report, just in case the letters to his family, my school, my family and the report that I had at my country newspaper about me closing myself in a bedroom for a week because i was scared of him abusing, harassing and extortioning me wasn't enough, I think thats something that most of the VAWA women go through, at least that's what my lawyer said, never my idea.

Your a Supposed attornry? Do you get off on making others feel small? Does that make you the big man on campus? Well not here bud. Please STFU and like stated earlier GTFO. I am sure the OP does need to be harrassed anymore than she already has by he SO.

AS for the OP, Keep going girl. Now that you have been moved to the right forum there will be plently of people who have been through this and worse and will give you the support you are entitled to. My heart goes out to you. Keep Strong honey.

obviously i don't need witnesses of the money stolen, there are bank statements, enough proof. i have witnesses of the day that he beat me up, enough said, remembering something that brings me so much pain so you can come and even try to put me down is not worthy.

Surferita, NA was not trying to put YOU down. She was defending you from the poster who was trying that. As Ewok said, we are usually a pretty helpful community here. I have no experience in the waiver area as my wife and I never had to file any. But, I do want to wish you the best of luck in your process. It does sound like to me that you unfortunately ended up with a total jerk.

Sorry i quoted her, i didn't mean to, obviously i was trying to respond the other person about me talking about money, money, money and never about the beating up and stuff.

thanks to all.

Your a Supposed attornry? Do you get off on making others feel small? Does that make you the big man on campus? Well not here bud. Please STFU and like stated earlier GTFO. I am sure the OP does need to be harrassed anymore than she already has by he SO.

AS for the OP, Keep going girl. Now that you have been moved to the right forum there will be plently of people who have been through this and worse and will give you the support you are entitled to. My heart goes out to you. Keep Strong honey.

obviously i don't need witnesses of the money stolen, there are bank statements, enough proof. i have witnesses of the day that he beat me up, enough said, remembering something that brings me so much pain so you can come and even try to put me down is not worthy.

I didn't know that extortion was allow in the US...I mean, how ###### up is my husband to tell me to pay him in order to help me finish for a green card process that we both started together and he knows and I paid for my paperwork.

He has ripped me a lot of money that now I know I don't want to go after, like rent, internet bill, car insurance.

I know now that my husband is totally insane and I got a transcript from court the other day saying what mental problems he has and how many medications he is taking since I couldn't get it directly from his doctor for being illegal.

i blame him for a lot of things but there is a difference for blaming him for taking money or cheating and a different one for extortioning, beating, threatening, etc

Your husband's mental status or any kind of medical situation has nothing to do with VAWA law nor it gives you a right to stay in the country. So what if he has some kind of mental status?? That's his problem, not anyone else. And if you say that his mental status is the thing that caused him to do things that he did to you then you should have left him which you might have done so eventually but then again it has nothing to do with immigraiton/VAWA and hand a green card to you on a silver platter.

Secondly, if your husband has used you for money then yet still it's not that kind of abuse that Congress intended for a VAWA to be invoked. Don't you know that whenever a marriage (or even any kind of relationship) breaks up in hostility then each party blames other one and accuses with tons of allegations? So just because one person has used other in the relationship then that doesn't mean VAWA should be invoked or the alien-spouse automatically gets the right to have a green card on a silver platter. If you think he has used for money then go ahead and sue him in either divorce court or in a civil court....What this money issue got to do with VAWA?????? In most relationships, people do use each other for one thing or another, believe me. Some use other for money, place of stay, sex, other services or whatever, and do you think VAWA should be invoked whenever an alien gets used????? VAWA law was not made for whenever an alien is get used; instead this law is made when alien spouse get abused in other way. As per your analogy, it seems to me that whenever a marriage breaks down between an alien and US citizen before receiving a green card then US govt. just should give green card to alien-spouse no matter what because they will ALL say that they were either abused or used, right???

Rather than talking about money, money, money, money; just talk about abuses, alright. Did he hit/beat you? If so, do you have police report? Was he arrested for that crime? Were you physically injured by his abuses? If so, did you go to doctor to get medical attention than just going to a therepist?

Well, according to the doctor that they sent me to make a detail report of the psychological damages that my husband has caused me, at the end, when your husband has hurt you so much but he knows that he can't touch you anymore because he would get in too much trouble, what's the last way he can try to hurt you? yes, trying to deport you so yes, i think that at VAWA they shouldn't listen both parts.

I'm so sorry that you think that they should beat us up almost to kill in order to get a green card, I don't think thats how it works, since even money control in order to apply for VAWA is an abuse if you didn't know.

an allegation is something else than having statements from the bank where i have put my money and he has taken it.

And i'm really sorry, i'm European, i had a normal life, a student visa, my family is in a good status, never been arrested and i had never dreamt about having such a nightmare marriage in my whole life, i wasn't desperate to get marry or needed it neither, i was totally legal.

And there is a difference between saying i got abused and having reports from housemates, and other parties who saw it. Anyway, i got a transcript from our court hearing and he admitted not taking his medication, having mental problems and doing things that he doesn't remember after so even if he could defend himself my lawyer said that a person like this is not trusted as a witness.

unless you have a husband that extortions you like mine, he encouraged me to get my greencard and after he abused me and i refused to go back with him after taking all my money from the joint account and closing it he accused me of marrying him for the only purpose of a green card, ugh!

I don't think you have read well or comprehend what I stated above especially these points-

Whenever a marriage fails based on hostility then both parties accuse each other for all kind of things, and it's so true when it comes to a marriage between a US citizen and an alien. It's normal for one party to accuse others for all kinds of bad deeds because it happens in every relationship when it gets failed because of hostility, but that doesn't mean there were abuses which are required to sustain for VAWA case. I mean, if my relationship or marriage gets failed because of whatever reason then obviously I expect my gf/wife to blame me for that and I would be blaming her for the fall of our relationship...It's normal. Very rarely one party admits of him/her to be the reason for a relationship to fail; otherwise they all blame other party.

So what happened to you in the marriage might not be right but it is normal as it happens in every relationship, believe it or not, sooner or later, but alien-spouse immediately sees an opportunity to get a green card thru their "fairy tales" of "abuses" because they know that this is the ONLY option left for them to obtain a green card. I wonder where were all these s-called "abused" people when there wasn't VAWA law? I never heard then people making such kinds of stories. That's why this law should be repelled; or USCIS should investigate this kind of cases very carefully and here out both persons based on their evidences.

There is always a two sides of any story then why USCIS only hears one side of the story and only from alien-spouse? Just say that I accuse you for stealing my money then how would you feel if court will automatically convict you based on my allegation alone without giving you any opportunity to defend yourself or without hearing your version of the story? I bet you would never like that idea but then why it's okay to believe you and your story without listing your husband's?? Again, it's not you; rather govt. who is responsible for immigration fraud and they know it very well as they are the one who say that 97% of VAWA cases are fraud.

If you would have had not married to a US citizen, you wouldn't have been eligible to file VAWA even if you were living with him as his gf....and then I wonder which laws could grant you a green card even though "abuses" were to be there?? For example, just think I'm an alien and has an American girlfriend. She abuses me terribly every ways she could but I won't be able to file VAWA even though I get abused because I need to be married in order to file this application. So did you see the difference here- abuse alone is one thing, while immigration thing is another, but alien-spouses are misusing this law widely for their own selfish motive in the name of being "abused". I've no idea why govt is allowing aliens to live in this country based on abused alone when people have been migrating to this country based on family unity, employment and other reasons but not on the basis of being "abused".

I didn't know that extortion was allow in the US...I mean, how ###### up is my husband to tell me to pay him in order to help me finish for a green card process that we both started together and he knows and I paid for my paperwork.

He has ripped me a lot of money that now I know I don't want to go after, like rent, internet bill, car insurance.

I know now that my husband is totally insane and I got a transcript from court the other day saying what mental problems he has and how many medications he is taking since I couldn't get it directly from his doctor for being illegal.

i blame him for a lot of things but there is a difference for blaming him for taking money or cheating and a different one for extortioning, beating, threatening, etc

Yes, laws like VAWA and IMBRA should be repelled. 98% of VAWA cases are fraud. When an alien cannot obtain a green card thru the help of his/her US citizen spouse, then that person ALWAYS files VAWA case no matter what. Why? Because VAWA is the only option s/he would left to have a green card by. They all shout-ABUSED. They make all kind of stories you name in the book and arrange all kind of documentary evidence. In the US, courts ALWAYS give a restraining/protection order to every woman once a woman asks for it...regardless of her allegations were to be proven or not despite of domestic violence laws state that allegations must be proven. I'm talking here first hand experience on this in many states...eye-witness. Most of the times women use restraining order to get advantage in divorce case and if a woman is immigrant then she uses the restraining order for VAWA case to prove an abuse.

Whenever a marriage falls apart, there is always a mental anguish or disagreement, which has nothing to do with mental abuse. But people use such disagreements and separation to prove their mental abuse for VAWA case. It's a piece of cake to fabricate documents for abuses to prove abuses. USCIS don't even verify nor investigate them. In Russia, every mail order brides sites explain to those ladies how they could obtain a green card in the US without marrying with a US citizen for long...which is just by virute of marrying with a US citizen. They are taught what to do and how to arrange documents from the beginning. There are many organizations who wrote articles and made tv documentary on how this law is being misused by aliens. But Congress has been ignoring it so far. Again, 98% of VAWA cases are fraud.

Congress not only have been ignoring all the reports on VAWA law but also made another law-IMBRA which jeopardize American citizen's fundamental right to marry anyone and anytime because now American citizen can petition for K-1 visa only three times in his life time. Also, there must be a gap of 2 years between each petition. Also, each American Citizen MUST need to disclose all their criminal past along with any history of domestic violence to their foreign prospective spouse before even courting her/him...and consular officers will let the foreign prospective spouse about the criminal and domestic violence past of American citizen befoer issuing Fiance/marriage visa to foreign person. This is a complete violation of fundamental rights of an American Citizen. Who is govt. to decide how many times one should marry or petition? Who is govt to force American citizen to disclose his criminal past and even history of rerstraining order to foreign prospective spouse? Not many people are raising their voices...that's why our Congress people are doing whatever they want. They are caring more about foreign people than American citizens. Foreign people have more rights than America citizens now. Shame on our govt. Both these laws should abolished/repelled.

unless you have a husband that extortions you like mine, he encouraged me to get my greencard and after he abused me and i refused to go back with him after taking all my money from the joint account and closing it he accused me of marrying him for the only purpose of a green card, ugh!

I mean, how much should I explain about the abuse so people can give me their opinions here?

First of all, like a lot of girls here, I'm sure they are suspicious that their ex-partners or ex-husband might be reading this forum.

There has been abuse of every kind in this relationship and thank god i have proves, one month after getting married he asked me for a 1,000 dollars to fix his stupid motorcycle, i said no and i think this is where all our problems started, that same day he sent me 3 text messages from work asking for the money that i didn't have, he finally called me saying that i had to ask my parents for it, i said No and he finally stopped but there was a lot of yelling and tears.

A few weeks later he cancelled our trip to his parents house, then he canceled a little party that we were gonna have with our friends at our house for the wedding, then he started being really sick, like he didn't know who he was or where he was, then he started yelling at me the whole time and moving out of the house every other day, seriously one day he got extremely angry with me because i used an exclamation point in a text message, ah! and i was also really sad and depressed after the wedding to find out that his mental problems where genetically transmitted to his kids cause i really want to have kids but seriously the situation of their father it's really bad, bipolar/esquizo people marriages end in divorce i think it's the 99% of them, i didn't know how sick he was till i married and lived with him and of course this is something that we didn't really talked about till we got married.

He didn't let me talk to his family and he made me de-friend all of them from my facebook although every time I talked to his family we had nice conversations and I was really polite and respectful to them, I really wanted to meet them.

at the end, sorry coming from him didn't mean anything to me and coming from a person that every 5 minutes changes his mind i ended up not caring about him and wanting him as far as i can from me since he is the only person that has cause this such pain in my life, he was supposed to send the divorce papers but he never did, i had to file for them and he never paid for his car insurance, is that fair also? he never paid for the stupid internet that he wanted, i let him choose the one that he wanted and needed for work in the house but apparently not good enough since he was always at his friend's house. Last time i talked to him he wanted to file for annulment and me to say that he was gay and pay for it or otherwise he was gonna get me deported, how? no idea, i mean, as far as i saw at court, all he has against me is a text message saying 'I'm gonna tell your family what you are doing and how much money i want back for not putting you in jail' and my response was to a previous message that he sent me 5 minute earlier and i show to judge that said ' I want 800 dollars to stay married to you and help you with your green card' which i obviously said no to.

I'm sure there is stuff that i forget about, it has been pretty intense, that's why i had a seizure attack due to stress.

Except for a handful of states, any debts incurred while you are married are community debts, which means both of you owe the money. You can try getting the $600 included in your property settlement, in which case he'll need to pay you.

Do you mean only a handful of states will consider it community debt? There are only 9 community property states...

Ha ha sorry for whoever doesn't understand my english, I'm really trying hard to explain myself here.

the judge said that it has been too many weeks till i filled for the restrain order since i didn't fill for it till he totally got me mad when he threatened me emailing my family saying that he was gonna make immigration to get me deported, i have told him way too many times that i didn't want any communication with him since last time he emailed me saying that he was sorry for what he did i received a call from the bank same day saying that he took all my money out from the joint account and closed it...he brought to court a paper with statements, they weren't notarized so the judge said that they weren't valid, i saw the judge my witness report from the other housemate and the judge didn't want to read it, it was pretty stupid honestly, i also had another witness report from the landlord, he asked the landlord to put his name on the leash and for the time that the landlord prepared it he already abused me and left the house, it took the landlord one month to get it ready... anyway, he is the american and since he hasn't taken his medication he didn't even understand the questions of the judge, it was pretty embarrassing to think that once i was in love with that person.

Another thing is that i don't go out to it, i don't buy myself clothes, i mean, i am not the kind of girl that spends money in clothes, i don't even like going to bars or clubs, i have never liked it, all the money that i am borrowing from my parents is limited to pay rent, cellphone, insurance and the kind of things necessary in life like food although the last couple of weeks i didn't have money and i ate corn flakes from the 99 cents store, i don't really care, but I'm really mad cause I'm gonna have to go to court again and see his face, i have the receipts from the bank with the deposit orders and statements of him taking the money out and transferring it to his own account.

If I get a record from court from yesterday where he said that he didn't consider that we were living together which means that he committed fraud under California law for a confidential marriage would be also good I think. any suggestion?

Reading your last posts, you don't tell us very much. But you DO have a lawyer, and you DID file for divorce already. In most states, the police can issue a no-trespass order that will keep him away from your home. Your marriage certificate sounds strange to me - why didn't you just have a wedding?

Why do you want to stay in the US anyway?

I'm 26, i wanted to get married and have babies.

I have been in college in US for 4 years, i have a student visa that i still keep but i applied for AOS and now for VAWA.

I have a life here that i don't really want to let go but it's not like my life depends on it, i just consider that i have gone through too much ###### to let it go now and it would also make my crazy husband happy, he admitted in front of the judge not taking his medication and been bipolar/ezquizo, the judge told him to take his medication.

I am filing for divorce but i also want my money back. He took 600 from our joint account and he didnt pay the insurance approx 400 dolars, the internet bill that we only hired cause he wanted it, when will i have to declare this in my divorce to get it back?

Here is another question, i was rushed to the hospital a few days ago, because of stress i fainted and had a seizure attack, he took all my money a few months ago and left me with anything, i couldn't pay my medical insurance next month so i didn't have any at the time that this happened, he is my sponsor, and the hospital bill goes up to 2,000 dolars, how will he be notified that he has to pay for it? i mean, i dont have any job and i guess somebody will have to pay for it, right?

No, not right.

You are the patient, it is your bill, you must pay.

Unless you get a court order he will not have to pay anything of any cost you incurred. The I-864 protects the government, not YOU. It is a contract between the government and him. In some cases, during a divorce, the judge has ordered that the sponsor must pay the minimum of 125% of the income guidelines, but again, this will not happen unless you take him to court, request it in the procedings and a judge orders it. The law is NOT self enforceing. YOU must initiate any enforcement of this contract. For you to receive any money back you need to request it in the divorce proceding. If he disagrees he will challenge it and the divorce could be dragged out for many years. T huge legal expense. Be careful what you seek, trying to get back $600 could casue the divorce to drag on long after you will need to go home and then you will lose by default. I hate to say it, but the BEST thing you can do in this case is come to a mutual agreement and divorce quietly and easily. Trying to seek $1000 or $2000 in medical bills can easily take years and cost $10,000 in legal bills. An attorney will not give you this advice, he will tell you how you can get this money or that money...just pay his fees. You will pay the fees and it will be years before you see anything...if ever.

Seems like you can forget a VAWA waiver. Unless he is dumb enough to do something now.

Seems like you can forget a VAWA waiver.

what does this mean? i already applied for vawa and i didnt have to pay anything.

and my lawyer is only for immigration, i'm taking care of my divorce. I have an appointment at court on july 21st about our financial statements, i hope then is when i will be able to show everything he has taken from me.

just information, we had a prenup and he never put any money in the joint account and it was for paying bills.

Also, if i don't have a job and i have 100$ in my bank account, how i am supposed to pay the hospital? i mean, its not gonna happen that i pay 2,000 to the hospital cause i don't have that money, i don't have a work permit, i am not a resident in this country...if my husband returns me 1,000$ that it was he owns me approx. i would gladly give it to the hospital.

I don't think Gary was implying anything about your financial status when he mentioned a VAWA waiver. I think he was saying you haven't presented any evidence of abuse, at least not in your posts here. It's possible you just haven't told us yet what sort of abuse he's guilty of.

Whether or not you have the ability to pay your debts has no bearing on whether you owe those debts, and not being able to pay them does not automatically make somebody else responsible for them. Now, if you live in a community property state, and if you have not filed for divorce or obtained a legal separation yet, then your husband may be equally responsible for those debts. Understand that I said equally and not solely responsible. If that is the case, then it doesn't matter which one of you has money, or if neither of you has money. If the debt isn't paid, then your credit will be screwed - both of you.

Now, in most community property states, you become legally separated the day you file for divorce - meaning a separate petition for the legal separation isn't necessary. Once you are legally separated then you are no longer responsible for any further debts he incurs, and he is no longer responsible for any further debts you incur. But, that doesn't wipe out any responsibility for debts incurred before you became legally separated. You both still owe the debts. This is something you usually resolve in your divorce settlement. That's when you figure out how to divide the marital assets and debts.

As far as the hospital, they will send you bills. If you don't pay them, then it will go into collection and a collection agency will send you bills. If you still don't pay them then they will torpedo your credit rating. They can continue trying to collect on the debt forever, unless you file bankruptcy, but they can't ever force you to pay. Only the government can force you to pay a debt, and there are a limited class of debts they will force you to pay, such as taxes, court ordered support payments, and student loans. The government will not force you to pay a hospital bill, nor put you in jail for not paying it.

They'll usually give up trying to collect, and just write off the debt, in a few years.

thanks jim, i appreciate you took your time to reply me.

Reading your last posts, you don't tell us very much. But you DO have a lawyer, and you DID file for divorce already. In most states, the police can issue a no-trespass order that will keep him away from your home. Your marriage certificate sounds strange to me - why didn't you just have a wedding?

Why do you want to stay in the US anyway?

I'm 26, i wanted to get married and have babies.

I have been in college in US for 4 years, i have a student visa that i still keep but i applied for AOS and now for VAWA.

I have a life here that i don't really want to let go but it's not like my life depends on it, i just consider that i have gone through too much ###### to let it go now and it would also make my crazy husband happy, he admitted in front of the judge not taking his medication and been bipolar/ezquizo, the judge told him to take his medication.

I am filing for divorce but i also want my money back. He took 600 from our joint account and he didnt pay the insurance approx 400 dolars, the internet bill that we only hired cause he wanted it, when will i have to declare this in my divorce to get it back?

Here is another question, i was rushed to the hospital a few days ago, because of stress i fainted and had a seizure attack, he took all my money a few months ago and left me with anything, i couldn't pay my medical insurance next month so i didn't have any at the time that this happened, he is my sponsor, and the hospital bill goes up to 2,000 dolars, how will he be notified that he has to pay for it? i mean, i dont have any job and i guess somebody will have to pay for it, right?

No, not right.

You are the patient, it is your bill, you must pay.

Unless you get a court order he will not have to pay anything of any cost you incurred. The I-864 protects the government, not YOU. It is a contract between the government and him. In some cases, during a divorce, the judge has ordered that the sponsor must pay the minimum of 125% of the income guidelines, but again, this will not happen unless you take him to court, request it in the procedings and a judge orders it. The law is NOT self enforceing. YOU must initiate any enforcement of this contract. For you to receive any money back you need to request it in the divorce proceding. If he disagrees he will challenge it and the divorce could be dragged out for many years. T huge legal expense. Be careful what you seek, trying to get back $600 could casue the divorce to drag on long after you will need to go home and then you will lose by default. I hate to say it, but the BEST thing you can do in this case is come to a mutual agreement and divorce quietly and easily. Trying to seek $1000 or $2000 in medical bills can easily take years and cost $10,000 in legal bills. An attorney will not give you this advice, he will tell you how you can get this money or that money...just pay his fees. You will pay the fees and it will be years before you see anything...if ever.

Seems like you can forget a VAWA waiver. Unless he is dumb enough to do something now.

Seems like you can forget a VAWA waiver.

what does this mean? i already applied for vawa and i didnt have to pay anything.

and my lawyer is only for immigration, i'm taking care of my divorce. I have an appointment at court on july 21st about our financial statements, i hope then is when i will be able to show everything he has taken from me.

just information, we had a prenup and he never put any money in the joint account and it was for paying bills.

Also, if i don't have a job and i have 100$ in my bank account, how i am supposed to pay the hospital? i mean, its not gonna happen that i pay 2,000 to the hospital cause i don't have that money, i don't have a work permit, i am not a resident in this country...if my husband returns me 1,000$ that it was he owns me approx. i would gladly give it to the hospital.

Reading your last posts, you don't tell us very much. But you DO have a lawyer, and you DID file for divorce already. In most states, the police can issue a no-trespass order that will keep him away from your home. Your marriage certificate sounds strange to me - why didn't you just have a wedding?

Why do you want to stay in the US anyway?

I'm 26, i wanted to get married and have babies.

I have been in college in US for 4 years, i have a student visa that i still keep but i applied for AOS and now for VAWA.

I have a life here that i don't really want to let go but it's not like my life depends on it, i just consider that i have gone through too much ###### to let it go now and it would also make my crazy husband happy, he admitted in front of the judge not taking his medication and been bipolar/ezquizo, the judge told him to take his medication.

I am filing for divorce but i also want my money back. He took 600 from our joint account and he didnt pay the insurance approx 400 dolars, the internet bill that we only hired cause he wanted it, when will i have to declare this in my divorce to get it back?

Here is another question, i was rushed to the hospital a few days ago, because of stress i fainted and had a seizure attack, he took all my money a few months ago and left me with anything, i couldn't pay my medical insurance next month so i didn't have any at the time that this happened, he is my sponsor, and the hospital bill goes up to 2,000 dolars, how will he be notified that he has to pay for it? i mean, i dont have any job and i guess somebody will have to pay for it, right?

we went today for the restrain order against him and the judge didn't give it to me because she said it's been too many weeks since them and i couldn't bring my witness although i brought two witness reports notarized but she didn't want to read them, our housemate and our landlord.

Here is the thing, my husband to try to save him from being accused of abuse me which he did, he alleged that we NEVER lived together and that i was using him to get a green card, i gave the judge our confidential marriage license, and the only requirement for this license is that we lived together before the wedding, that i actually considered that we did although he never moved all his stuff in my house till after we got married, he has testify now that we didn't live together or that he considered that we didn't live together, he has testified that he committed FRAUD then, so now, what? what should i do about this?

well, by parts.

For my VAWA case, i have notarized witnesses reports, a few actually, plus proves of emails, text messages and phone calls of him asking for money and saying sorry about things that he has done, i even wrote a column in a newspaper about the last night i saw him one week after he beat me up, my lawyer has seen it and so far said that the case is going to be easy, honestly, i didn't know why i stand him for so long.

Why i want the advance parole? well, in the last 2 years i have been outside USA for a week, because one thing or the other and since i got married months ago i wasn't able to get out, now with VAWA i will not be able to get out at least for a year, is this fair? i don't think so, after going through everything i have gone through i would like to see my family and be surrounded and hugged by them. It is just not fair that that mother f***er can go to his house and hugh and be hugged by his family that is at least as crazy as he is meanwhile i have to be so far from mine for so long.

I divorced him, i had to go and get it to court, i had to pay a lawyer, he cleaned our joint account where he put not even a cent, i was the one that got beat up, i think i have my right to ask for what i think should be fair for me, YES!

Is it possible to get an Advance Parole while vawa is being processed? I'm just wondering, not having enough info regarding to this topic... Any ideas out there?

I'm just gonna tell what my lawyer told me yesterday, you can ask for an AP meanwhile an AOS process, so till you start an AOS process you can't ask for a AP.

Hope this helps you...

Thanks for replaying Got it now......

Sorry people, I have been looking for it, i swear, but couldn't clear up my mind, what does PRIMA FACIE mean? is it a time to show proofs of the abuse? why people's prima facie does get expired? it means that in all the time that uscis gave them they couldn't find enough proofs to show the abuse?

Thanks.

I'm still waiting for my biometrics notice as well (CSC received my application 49 days ago!!)...I called the National Customer Service Center ( 1-800-375-5283 ) last Friday and put in a service request. I also scheduled an infopass appointment for this coming Monday...

Good luck!

49 days!!! Something is going on with them. Are they upgrading their fingerprint machine together with the card production machine?

I finally received my biometrics notice in the mail today! I'm actually considering doing a walk-in since my appointment is still 3 weeks away. I hope those who are still waiting will receive their bio notices soon too!

same here. I sent mine 15th of May and haven't receive the biometrics letter yet although i received the Advance Parole this week...

Congratulations! hope to get mine soon too

well, by parts.

For my VAWA case, i have notarized witnesses reports, a few actually, plus proves of emails, text messages and phone calls of him asking for money and saying sorry about things that he has done, i even wrote a column in a newspaper about the last night i saw him one week after he beat me up, my lawyer has seen it and so far said that the case is going to be easy, honestly, i didn't know why i stand him for so long.

Why i want the advance parole? well, in the last 2 years i have been outside USA for a week, because one thing or the other and since i got married months ago i wasn't able to get out, now with VAWA i will not be able to get out at least for a year, is this fair? i don't think so, after going through everything i have gone through i would like to see my family and be surrounded and hugged by them. It is just not fair that that mother f***er can go to his house and hugh and be hugged by his family that is at least as crazy as he is meanwhile i have to be so far from mine for so long.

I divorced him, i had to go and get it to court, i had to pay a lawyer, he cleaned our joint account where he put not even a cent, i was the one that got beat up, i think i have my right to ask for what i think should be fair for me, YES!

Is it possible to get an Advance Parole while vawa is being processed? I'm just wondering, not having enough info regarding to this topic... Any ideas out there?

I'm just gonna tell what my lawyer told me yesterday, you can ask for an AP meanwhile an AOS process, so till you start an AOS process you can't ask for a AP.

Hope this helps you...

well, by parts.

For my VAWA case, i have notarized witnesses reports, a few actually, plus proves of emails, text messages and phone calls of him asking for money and saying sorry about things that he has done, i even wrote a column in a newspaper about the last night i saw him one week after he beat me up, my lawyer has seen it and so far said that the case is going to be easy, honestly, i didn't know why i stand him for so long.

Why i want the advance parole? well, in the last 2 years i have been outside USA for a week, because one thing or the other and since i got married months ago i wasn't able to get out, now with VAWA i will not be able to get out at least for a year, is this fair? i don't think so, after going through everything i have gone through i would like to see my family and be surrounded and hugged by them. It is just not fair that that mother f***er can go to his house and hugh and be hugged by his family that is at least as crazy as he is meanwhile i have to be so far from mine for so long.

I divorced him, i had to go and get it to court, i had to pay a lawyer, he cleaned our joint account where he put not even a cent, i was the one that got beat up, i think i have my right to ask for what i think should be fair for me, YES!