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subwayguy Enthusiast

subwayguy   100

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So you deliberately overstayed, are unemployed, have a dirty place to live and stay out all day instead of cleaning up the place. You are complaining that you cannot work because you did not follow the rules.

What was your question?

your comment is unnecessarily cruel. If you don't have anything nice or constructive to say, then save it.

drlarryclements Apprentice

drlarryclements   4

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your comment is unnecessarily cruel. If you don't have anything nice or constructive to say, then save it.

I have been a member on this for years. It is an excellent source of information. I used it to bring my fiancé over from the Philippines.

Fiancée Visa, AOL, Removal of Conditions, Conditional Green Card, 10 Year Green Card, and finally American citizen for my loving and most wonderful wife.

Like a lot of people on this system, we paid the price, in time, finances, anxiety and worry, sometimes unreasonable timelines so it took years and years to do the right thing.

It really gripes me to hear how people are abusing the system by deliberate overstays or other means, and then whine about their circumstance.

I truly believe in the system but maybe Trump has the right idea.

System Admin, please feel free to remove me, but let us at least assist the people TRYING to do the right thing the AMERICAN way.

TBoneTX Grand Master

TBoneTX   45,825

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Let's knock off the bickering now, please. Discuss the OP's situation without being judgmental.

VJ Moderation

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

Villanelle Experienced

Villanelle   4,122

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I thought what he described sounds like emotional abuse...but I am not an expert. So I will agree with you...

Eh. You have to realize Sandra is a VAWA lawyer so when she uses the word "abuse" its almost always with the USCIS definition. Not all abuse qualifies as "abuse" under the definition set by USCIS. So quite often people post on here awful stories and while it is abuse it does not meet the definition so they are ineligible for VAWA. This does not mean they are not a victim of abuse. Nor does it mean they shouldnt seek out other resources like therapy or shelter/relocation assistance. Often those programs have lower bars for what qualifies as abuse.

So I agree with Ebun. The OP can stay in the bad marriage and continue to be abused in a way that wont make him eligible for benefits nor help from the police because it doesnt meet the criminal definitions of abuse. Or he can divorce and move on where ever that may take him.

 
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