VAWA, Part 20

[Ylx 81]

14 hours ago, Kely said:

Right ! I have the same issue. I received my c31 EAD since august 26th and it's still just stuck at "card was mailed". I was expecting to have an approval by now. Stressing me out😢

Hi there.. My C31 was delivered on march and the approval letter at the end of june. I requested a SSC never came so I had to contact SSA to get my social number. Just be patient .. Those letter will come!

[Kely 70]

1 hour ago, Ylx said:

Hi there.. My C31 was delivered on march and the approval letter at the end of june. I requested a SSC never came so I had to contact SSA to get my social number. Just be patient .. Those letter will come!

Thank you!

[Demise 1,291]

3 hours ago, sabina4 said:

Thank you so much. My lawyer filed these forms the first time and he used his office address as the mailing address, should I use his address or mine this time? does it matter? and should I send both forms together in the same package or separate?

Since you're applying for a combo card send them together in one package. The package will basically just be:

I-765

I-131

Copy of I-485 receipt

Copy front and back of your EAD

 

Doesn't matter which address you use. You can use your own unless it's unsafe for you to receive mail where you live.

[Hritik Rohail 103]

5 hours ago, Dordor1 said:

Oh boy. So after denying all the allegations filed in his annulment complaint, I now got an email requesting my financial disclosure. Why do I have to disclose all my bank accounts and stuff? I’m not liking this one bit guys. 

This process is called " Discovery" in legal language. Your abuser may under impression that you r hiding or supresing some financial matters, resorted to this tactic. Be careful and read and analyze  critically every transaction before handing over!

[Yalcin 13]

Hi folks. I have been silent reader for a long time. 

My first vawa Receipt date:

04.21.2017 I-360, I-485 and I-765 

08.09.2018 RFE

11.02.2018 Uscis received RFE

12.26.2018 I got denied 

I had terrible lawyer. He was very rude and unprofessional. He and his team didn’t pay attention anything on my case. They made a lot of mistakes. I payed the lawyer for the case $6000. 

My second vawa Receipt date

01.30.2019 I-360, I-485 and I-765

07.06.2020 new card being produced 

07.27.2020 I received C31

08.20.2020 I-360 approved 

08.25.2020 received approval letter 

Sandra helped me a lot for my second vawa and Sandra helped me get my money back from the previous lawyer. She is the best. When I need to help she was always with me. God bless you sandra. I can't thank you enough....🙏🙏

[Stillwinning!!!😊 4,570]

3 hours ago, Yalcin said:

Hi folks. I have been silent reader for a long time. 

My first vawa Receipt date:

04.21.2017 I-360, I-485 and I-765 

08.09.2018 RFE

11.02.2018 Uscis received RFE

12.26.2018 I got denied 

I had terrible lawyer. He was very rude and unprofessional. He and his team didn’t pay attention anything on my case. They made a lot of mistakes. I payed the lawyer for the case $6000. 

My second vawa Receipt date

01.30.2019 I-360, I-485 and I-765

07.06.2020 new card being produced 

07.27.2020 I received C31

08.20.2020 I-360 approved 

08.25.2020 received approval letter 

Sandra helped me a lot for my second vawa and Sandra helped me get my money back from the previous lawyer. She is the best. When I need to help she was always with me. God bless you sandra. I can't thank you enough....🙏🙏

I'm so happy😀 for you and yes I agree with you Sandra is the angel GOD gave us all here!🙏When she's not here it feels like a dry land..then she comes through and sets the record straight!🙌 Lol..May God continue to bless and keep her for us. Beautiful soul!🌟✨💫

[Dordor1 47]

4 hours ago, Yalcin said:

Hi folks. I have been silent reader for a long time. 

My first vawa Receipt date:

04.21.2017 I-360, I-485 and I-765 

08.09.2018 RFE

11.02.2018 Uscis received RFE

12.26.2018 I got denied 

I had terrible lawyer. He was very rude and unprofessional. He and his team didn’t pay attention anything on my case. They made a lot of mistakes. I payed the lawyer for the case $6000. 

My second vawa Receipt date

01.30.2019 I-360, I-485 and I-765

07.06.2020 new card being produced 

07.27.2020 I received C31

08.20.2020 I-360 approved 

08.25.2020 received approval letter 

Sandra helped me a lot for my second vawa and Sandra helped me get my money back from the previous lawyer. She is the best. When I need to help she was always with me. God bless you sandra. I can't thank you enough....🙏🙏

Congratulations hon

[Sharshar42 208]

7 hours ago, Yalcin said:

Hi folks. I have been silent reader for a long time. 

My first vawa Receipt date:

04.21.2017 I-360, I-485 and I-765 

08.09.2018 RFE

11.02.2018 Uscis received RFE

12.26.2018 I got denied 

I had terrible lawyer. He was very rude and unprofessional. He and his team didn’t pay attention anything on my case. They made a lot of mistakes. I payed the lawyer for the case $6000. 

My second vawa Receipt date

01.30.2019 I-360, I-485 and I-765

07.06.2020 new card being produced 

07.27.2020 I received C31

08.20.2020 I-360 approved 

08.25.2020 received approval letter 

Sandra helped me a lot for my second vawa and Sandra helped me get my money back from the previous lawyer. She is the best. When I need to help she was always with me. God bless you sandra. I can't thank you enough....🙏🙏

Congratulations 🙏🏽🎉👏🏼

[Apolo 314]

7 hours ago, Yalcin said:

Hi folks. I have been silent reader for a long time. 

My first vawa Receipt date:

04.21.2017 I-360, I-485 and I-765 

08.09.2018 RFE

11.02.2018 Uscis received RFE

12.26.2018 I got denied 

I had terrible lawyer. He was very rude and unprofessional. He and his team didn’t pay attention anything on my case. They made a lot of mistakes. I payed the lawyer for the case $6000. 

My second vawa Receipt date

01.30.2019 I-360, I-485 and I-765

07.06.2020 new card being produced 

07.27.2020 I received C31

08.20.2020 I-360 approved 

08.25.2020 received approval letter 

Sandra helped me a lot for my second vawa and Sandra helped me get my money back from the previous lawyer. She is the best. When I need to help she was always with me. God bless you sandra. I can't thank you enough....🙏🙏

@sandranj is the best wish i was lucky enough for her to be my lawyer and im so glad that your case got approved and moving forward 

[Dordor1 47]

18 minutes ago, Apolo said:

@sandranj is the best wish i was lucky enough for her to be my lawyer and im so glad that your case got approved and moving forward 

I wish I had @sandranj also as my attorney 

[MarSam701 175]

On 9/8/2020 at 10:09 AM, Stillwinning!!!😊 said:

Looks good so far...moving forward! Next is scheduling! Stay blessed dear!😊👍

Right back at you hunt💖

[Villanelle 4,122]

21 hours ago, Dordor1 said:

Oh boy. So after denying all the allegations filed in his annulment complaint, I now got an email requesting my financial disclosure. Why do I have to disclose all my bank accounts and stuff? I’m not liking this one bit guys. 

You should contact your local legal aid office. In some places they do not help with divorce unless there are 'extraordinary circumstances'. They also have guidelines about immigration status. Being a VAWA petitioner makes you eligible for help and a divorce from an abusive spouse also qualifies you as extraordinary circumstances. Many legal aid offices are understaffed so you may qualify for help but they just dont have the means to help you. Try anyway. Let them know you have active divorce proceedings and need representation asap- and that he has an attny so you really need one as well. 

 

You can also contact the clerk at the local court where the divorce was filed and ask them how you could possibly get the Judge to order your ex to pay for an attny for you since he has one and you can not afford one. It can be very hard to do a divorce on your own when the other side has an attny and you do not- so please explore options on getting yourself an attny. You can also try Catholic Charities. When ever someone tells you no they cant help ask them for a referral to someone who can possibly help. You can also try google for pro bono assistance keeping in mind that being an abuse victim will usually make you eligible for help- so make sure they know you are an abuse victim and his side has an attny and you need help. 

 

If you can not get an attny anywhere and the court will not force him to pay for yours you need to be very thorough with all the paperwork. Make sure you understand everything that is written and everything you sign. Remember that legal terms dont always mean what they appear. For example in my divorce (which was long and complicated for no reason besides my ex husband being insane) part of the paperwork said something about the credit card debts. That we would each be responsible for our own. Now I took that as all the cards he ran up he was responsible for- even the ones in my name because I provided a list of all our cards and notated which ones were his debts and which ones were mine. (he had a business and opened multiple accounts with rather high limits in both our names and used them for work. I had 2 personal cards with very low limits I used for myself after our separation).  But nope thats not what the wording meant. It wasnt until they came after me for the money and I told them oh no I dont pay those its in the divorce that he pays those did they explain to me that the wording meant cards in my name were my problem and cards in his name were his problem! So please be careful and make sure you understand everything if you can not find an attny. 

 

 

[Villanelle 4,122]

On 9/11/2020 at 12:20 AM, Kiesel said:

Thank you, Stillwinning. I'm happy with my counselor, she's just not a psychologist, and I'm not sure how good of a report she can write. That's why I've been looking for a Psychologist. My counselor has been helping me figure out what I want and think of what's best for me. There are only a handful of psychologists in Washington State that specialize in immigration evaluations. does it matter if they specialize in immigration or if they're general psychologists?

Ideally you want someone who knows immigration. The evaluation needs to be written a certain way with specific terms and contents. A general psych Dr may be qualified to write it but will not know exactly what needs to be written. So you really want someone who knows immigration and has written evals like this before. Typically for the evaluation you have 5-7 sessions and then they write the report. They are not 'long term' therapy- you should continue your therapy with a local provider in addition to the evaluation process. 

[Villanelle 4,122]

On 9/9/2020 at 11:28 PM, Demise said:

... if they can show a connection between the status violation / EWI and the abuse.

 

1. Unlawful presence followed by departure - INA 212(a)(9)(B)(v),

2. Present without admission or parole - INA 212(a)(6)(A)(ii) (this one is a dead letter for the same legal reasoning as not making this bar applicable to 245(i) adjustment since in case of VAWA applicant the exception granted in INA 245(a) to VAWA applicants who EWI'd would basically be both a basis of eligibility and ineligibility for adjustment),

3. Permanent bar - INA 212(a)(9)(C)(iii)

 

All of them require you to prove a connection between you EWI'ing, overstaying, departing, or re-EWI'ing and the abuse to grant you an exception or a waiver.

 

I'm also reading the AFM right now as well and it similarly requires you to prove connection between abuse and your status violation in order to make you exempt from the 10 year bar. Like yes normally the 10 year bar doesn't really come into play because most VAWA applicants will just adjust in US and not leave until they at very least have their advance parole in hand; but in this case this person wants to leave ASAP and complete the case from Canada which is where the 10 year bar most likely comes into play.

Demise your contributions are greatly appreciated but please understand VAWA is very complex. You may come across things in the AFM or policy statutes that seem applicable but they are not because other policies override them. Sandra posted " it doesn't matter if she overstayed before her marriage or not.VAWA petitioners DO NOT ACCRUE unlawful presence." That is the correct information. 

 

FYI since you are new to the VAWA thread- sandra is a VAWA attny with decades of experience. Every single thing she posts is 100% accurate and users should take care when reading the past VAWA threads to pay extra attention to her posts. They contain a lot of valuable information. Sandra works full time as a VAWA attny and also does pro bono VAWA cases in addition to providing help on the forums here (as well as a ton of other charity stuff). Its amazing how much she actually does in a day! She typically does not have time to respond in detail and explain the complexities of the laws so its doubtful she will respond to your comment and quote you policy that supports her statement or guide you on why the policy you are quoting does not apply. 

[Ana FL 242]

Question for a friend.

she is gathering everything to file for vawa. Her husband is a permanent resident who will apply for his citizenship in the next 12 months. My friend is very worried that if she files for vawa now, uscis will give her husband problems with his citizenship application. 
she is thinking about waiting for him to get his citizenship first so he doesn’t come back for her. 
Would that be an issue? 
@sandranj