Temporary Green Card (2 years) and divorce

[Someone 0]

Well, I came here for loving someone very much.

I lived with my "ex-husband" now for a little bit more than a year and we got married for 1 year and 1 month.

The relationship was full of violence, due to alcohol and problems with management of anger. He used to be very abusive with words and actions and used to tell that I WAS THE VIOLENT person, he just used to DEFEND HIMSELF, since the true was not like that. I had never want to police envolved. I used to think that since I am the foreigner, they would never believe in me, they would always support the American Citizen... I just felt alone and I did not have a place to go and I was very affraid of my husband.

One day, I couldn't take it anymore and I left. I asked him for tree months to start our divorce process. He did not do anything about it. He was served, he is furious! He wrote me that he will sue me for fraud and he will make me pay all the money he spent in our Immigration process.

'My GC is good till March 2009, I know I should send all my paperwork to Immigration in December this year. I wanna do all things right, I have never thought about hidding anything from Immigration. And I will not do that! My only doubt right now is that do I have to write to Immigration now and let them know I am getting divorce? And why?

* (I did not divorce due to violence, Actually I did not mention anything about violence in the papers. Just my lawyer knows the truth. And If I have to get an Immigration lawyer in the future, I will tell him/her the truth. - I am very affraid of him to do that and he has a son whom I love him very much and I don't wanna that boy sees his father going to the jail.)

Ok, any idea if I should write to Immigration before sending my papers to them in December?

Very sad about all of this...

Thank you!

Edited July 26, 2008 by Someone

[pushbrk 13,073]

Well, I came here for loving someone very much.

I lived with my "ex-husband" now for a little bit more than a year and we got married for 1 year and 1 month.

The relationship was full of violence, due to alcohol and problems with management of anger. He used to be very abusive with words and actions and used to tell that I WAS THE VIOLENT person, he just used to DEFEND HIMSELF, since the true was not like that. I had never want to police envolved. I used to think that since I am the foreigner, they would never believe in me, they would always support the American Citizen... I just felt alone and I did not have a place to go and I was very affraid of my husband.

One day, I couldn't take it anymore and I left. I asked him for tree months to start our divorce process. He did not do anything about it. He was served, he is furious! He wrote me that he will sue me for fraud and he will make me pay all the money he spent in our Immigration process.

'My GC is good till March 2009, I know I should send all my paperwork to Immigration in December this year. I wanna do all things right, I have never thought about hidding anything from Immigration. And I will not do that! My only doubt right now is that do I have to write to Immigration now and let them know I am getting divorce? And why?

* (I did not divorce due to violence, Actually I did not mention anything about violence in the papers. Just my lawyer knows the truth. And If I have to get an Immigration lawyer in the future, I will tell him/her the truth. - I am very affraid of him to do that and he has a son whom I love him very much and I don't wanna that boy sees his father going to the jail.)

Ok, any idea if I should write to Immigration before sending my papers to them in December?

Very sad about all of this...

Thank you!

As soon as you have a final divorce decree, you may file to remove conditions. Once divorced, you don't need to wait. You'll be filing on your own.

[diadromous mermaid 36]

Well, I came here for loving someone very much.

I lived with my "ex-husband" now for a little bit more than a year and we got married for 1 year and 1 month.

The relationship was full of violence, due to alcohol and problems with management of anger. He used to be very abusive with words and actions and used to tell that I WAS THE VIOLENT person, he just used to DEFEND HIMSELF, since the true was not like that. I had never want to police envolved. I used to think that since I am the foreigner, they would never believe in me, they would always support the American Citizen... I just felt alone and I did not have a place to go and I was very affraid of my husband.

One day, I couldn't take it anymore and I left. I asked him for tree months to start our divorce process. He did not do anything about it. He was served, he is furious! He wrote me that he will sue me for fraud and he will make me pay all the money he spent in our Immigration process.

'My GC is good till March 2009, I know I should send all my paperwork to Immigration in December this year. I wanna do all things right, I have never thought about hidding anything from Immigration. And I will not do that! My only doubt right now is that do I have to write to Immigration now and let them know I am getting divorce? And why?

* (I did not divorce due to violence, Actually I did not mention anything about violence in the papers. Just my lawyer knows the truth. And If I have to get an Immigration lawyer in the future, I will tell him/her the truth. - I am very affraid of him to do that and he has a son whom I love him very much and I don't wanna that boy sees his father going to the jail.)

Ok, any idea if I should write to Immigration before sending my papers to them in December?

Very sad about all of this...

Thank you!

You don't need to inform immigration of the reasons your marriage did not work, unless you live in a state in which a party must have grounds for divorce, and even then it would only be germane to the divorce but might be noted in the judgment of divorce. Your spouse can't go to jail for something that occurred in the past, unless you filed a police report and he violates any order placed upon him as a result.

[Someone 0]

Thank you very much guys!!

**I have never called the cops too, because he has a sick child.

I love his child very much, he is a very special little person. Because of him, I have never called the police. I didn't want this boy seeing his father going to the jail...

Edited July 27, 2008 by Someone

[Asante Maroon 0]

Thank you very much guys!!

**I have never called the cops too, because he has a sick child.

I love his child very much, he is a very special little person. Because of him, I have never called the police. I didn't want this boy seeing his father going to the jail...

Has anyone witnessed him abusing you? I ask because you say you never wanted to go to the police.

There is some sort of law that protects immigrants for this very purpose. Often immigrants don't want to make complaints of abuse against their SO's because of fear of being sent back to their home country. But the truth is that there is a law that will protect your right to remain in the US legally. I can't recall what the law is, so if someone can chime in....