I'm going through something similar, my husband is bipolar/ezquizo., he has hit me and mentally abused me as he had said before, i have witnesses and i filed a restrain order against him.
I applied for vawa through a lawyer cause with everything i have gone through i had enough and i have filed for divorce from my husband and now he wants the annulment. The lawyers said that this totally fits the abuser case, they try to hurt you as much as they can and in this case, he is trying to get me deported but with vawa you can stay and get the permanent residency in less than a year and also a work permit but you need also to go and get a report from a therapist as somebody already said and do a testimony of what you have gone through plus get witnesses letter notarized affirmating your testimony.
I also collapsed 2 days ago due to stress and i had to spent one day in the ER.
Best luck to your friend, some people here knows what he is going through.
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