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Married & Separated for 3.5 years

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alaskanicelander   2

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Can someone let me know what forum section I can read up on a wife going back to her home country and not coming back.  She was only in the USA for 10 months and my job had me working a strange schedule 3 weeks on/3 weeks off.  So we were only really together 50% of that 10 months.  She went back to Ukraine in 2020, then COVID and all those rules kicked in and during this time her 2 year green card expired but I had a narrow window for a SB-1 visa and completed the package and then the war broke out.  I support her monthly, but communication is only a few words every few days via FB messenger.  this has been going on since the war and I cannot relate to what her and her family has gone through, but they did make it to Poland and have been there over a year.  But it seems obvious to me she is not coming back.   I do not need to start a conversation chain on this page if there is another page that I have overlooked that I need to post this on.  I am concerned that the I-864 is a noose around my neck even if we were together for only 5 months.  Can someone just point me to the correct forum so I can read other peoples cases on situations like this...thanks.

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Boiler   45,795

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https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/127-effects-of-major-family-changes-on-immigration-benefits/

 

This would be the nearest, however it seems this is a Divorce Lawyer situation not Immigration law.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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Thread is moved from Off Topic to the Effects of Major Changes forum.

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(!).

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alaskanicelander   2

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On 6/19/2023 at 9:44 PM, Boiler said:

https://www.visajourney.com/forums/forum/127-effects-of-major-family-changes-on-immigration-benefits/

 

This would be the nearest, however it seems this is a Divorce Lawyer situation not Immigration law.

Thanks...I know that is a big part it, was trying to see if anyone has went through it.  But thank you!

Boiler Grand Master

Boiler   45,795

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11 minutes ago, alaskanicelander said:

Thanks...I know that is a big part it, was trying to see if anyone has went through it.  But thank you!

There are no end of Divorce stories, very few are identical, at least she is out of the US which helps significantly.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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Eric-Pris   1,607

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If she isn't coming back into the US, I think you're off the hook when it comes to I-864 because she can't file for government assistance.

 

I suggest you have a real conversation about the future (do you even want her to come back?) and go from there.

 
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