Makanaki

Ha ha ha! Thank you. I am actually a woman.

I paid $5k. I pray they respond to you soon! In my case I know the I485 may be another hurdle to overcome, but I am holding on to the believe that with the Mandamus, they would want to decide and close out on the i485 as well. @Demise any idea please on how the I485 could swing from here on?

I found out from the 8 pages of reasons for their denial (see below). I believe we already gave them that right to investigate anything they want to investigate by submitting our application, including institutions such as banks. I stand to be corrected though.

It's my I360. For me, this is victory enough. In the next few weeks we will find out if they really and truly held the i485 from my closed i130 or I have to file a new i485. The writ of mandamus was filed with the same lawyer I engaged right from the moment of denial.

All thanks to you and all the moderators of this platform

This is my journey: 2017 June Married abuser 2018 filed I130 & I1485 2019 May filed I360 asked for I1485 to be held (did the filing by myself) Prima Facie sent (many of them over the years, I can't recollect anymore) 2020 I sent additional documentation without them asking i.e. therapy report, letters from friends, utility bills etc. 2021 Oct Found out that my daughter's I485 was not put on hold in 2019 through general inquiry at the army for enlistment 2021 Dec Filed a new I485 for my daughter 2022 Feb They issued a Green Card for my daughter based on Category IB8 (note: my case has not been approved yet at this stage) 2022 Mar Wrote USCIS a letter regarding the issuance of the Green Card and the none approval of VAWA (NO RESPONSE) 2022 April We received your correspondence for Form I360 (UPDATE) 2023 Mar We sent a request for additional evidence for your Form I360 (SEE BELOW EXPLANATION) 2023 Apr We received your response for Form I360 2023 Sep We denied your Form i360 2023 Oct Filed I290B 2023 Dec We updated your name for your Form I360 2023 Dec We reopened your Form I360 2023 Dec We are reviewing your Form I360 2023 Dec Notice of Intent to Deny 2024 Jan We received your response for Form I360 2024 Daughter became a US citizen 2024 Oct Your inquiry about why your case is taking longer than our processing time was completed 2024 Nov Filed Writ of Mandamus 2025 Jan We ordered your new card RFE: The first RFE was based on Qualifying Relationship Requirement & Eligibility for Immigrant Classification. They said that my first visit to the US 17 years ago, I stated that I was married, but in my application I did not declare that marriage. I responded to the RFE myself explaining that the marriage was a traditional marriage and in my country that type of marriage is considered dissolved once the bride price is returned(I'm Nigerian). My mother also wrote her statement. But they denied the I360. I engaged the services of a lawyer for the first time on my case. We filed the I290B and responded to the RFE again in a better way, quoting the Reciprocity and Civil Documents of my Country written by USCIS themselves, among other things which state clearly that the marriage has been dissolved based on the return of the bride price, and the devastating circumstances of my visit to the US back then that I almost lost my life due to the marriage (with evidence from the hospital that I was kept in during the visit) that explains the circumstances surrounding that dissolved marriage. The I290B was filed in Oct, and in Dec they responded by accepting that the marriage they were referring to was indeed dissolved according to laws of my country and that I do have a Qualifying Relationship with my abuser BUT however issued a Notice of Intent to Deny on the same correspondence. Notice of Intent To Deny: This notice came the same time they said I have successfully answered their RFE, but that it has ''COME TO THEIR ATTENTION THAT THE EVIDENCE IN THE RECORD DOES NOT ESTABLISH THAT YOU RESIDED WITH YOUR SPOUSE AND THAT YOU MARRIED YOUR SPOUSE IN GOOD FAITH''. I personally found the above statement as witch-hunting because to me how come it is just coming to their attention AFTER I was able to counteract the first RFE? What was more ironic was what they stated that back in 2022, the USCIS Fraud Detection and National Security department contacted my utility provider to verify the authenticity of the utility bills I submitted. They alleged that they (USCIS) has determined that I provided altered utility bills in order to establish that my abuser and I resided and married in good faith. If this were the case, and USCIS truly believed their allegation, how come they did not present this first instead of the so called marriage back in my home country years and years ago? This was the question that was in my mind that propelled me to really fight on this case because I know I did not falsify any document. I went to great extreme to contact the utility company to dig out their archive records with all our utility bills that they issued my abuser and I, and likewise all the telephone calls made to the utility company whilst my abuser and I lived together. They transcribed all the calls in their official letter and likewise wrote an official letter that our utility bills are not falsified. The notice of intent to deny also went into some tantrum about our tax return (which again I had to go back to IRS to get all our records), the text messages that I submitted (which they chose to read out of context), etc. They even went as far as saying that our car insurance only had my abuser on my car and not his. One of the things that I learned on this platform is to always have some evidence kept back just in case things like this happens. Thankfully I did, and was able to provide car insurance documents that had both of use registered on each others cars. Even though they responded speedily with all my responses to their RFE, with this NOID they decided to keep mute since receiving our response in Jan 2024. Hence I filed the writ of mandamus in Nov 2024, and here we are with an approval to the Glory of God! I would like to say to everyone reading this, please DO NOT give up! Empower yourself with knowledge on this platform by reading as much as you can. Go as far back to Part 1 of this thread if you need to! And also, do not listen to the naysayers, especially if you know your truth and believe in your truth. On this same platform, right at the start of my journey, someone had looked at my case and said it is impossible! I chose to hold on to possible and filed everything by just reading and learning on this platform. It was not an easy journey for sure. But on this platform I also learned that do not hold your life back whilst waiting for your case to be approved. Over the years, I bought a house, I decided to go back to school, today case is approved and I am also now a nurse. Keep yourself busy whilst waiting. I used all those prima facies and they paid for my nursing school from the beginning to the end. Please do not give up! P.S. Sorry for the long post!

My VJ Family 👪 words cannot express how I feel right now!!! Finally, after 5 years and 7 months my case has finally being approved! This could not have been possible firstly without God and all of you here! I don't even know where to start outlining my journey! But one thing I can say for sure right now NEVER GIVE UP even when USCIS throws you some rubbish (appropriate words fail me right now to qualify what they have thrown at me!). I finally filed a Mandamus and here I am with New Card Being Produced on my I360! Thank you to everyone on this platform, all your contributions have been phenomenal! @TBoneTX your joke worked 🥰🥰🥰

You are simple the best @Demise thank you so much for answering and with also a backup link. 😊

Please do dependents of vawa pending cases now have to pay for work authorization renewals? If so, how much?

Thank you so much @Demise

Has the address for filing work authorization changed please? If so, what is the new address? I sent a renewal of work authorization for me son to 38 River Road, Essex Junction VT 05452-3808 and it was rejected with the following: "THE FORM TYPE SUBMITTED IS NOT WITHIN THE JURISDICTION OF THIS SERVICE CENTER. PLEASE RESUBMIT TO THE CORRECT FILING LOCATION"

It shows from the day you the sender (person A) creates a transaction on USPS portal that you want to send an envelope to person B (person B will see this on their dashbord - sometimes but not all the time!). It does not necessarily mean that USPS has received the actual envelope from Person A but that an envelope is coming. Once USPS receives the envelope, Person B will also see the update on their dashboard that the envelope has been received. That's when you will see the tracking number. From then on you can use the tracking number to follow through the journey of the envelope until it reaches the final destination.

Unfortunately 😞

Yes, he has. Unfortunately they said the incident was over7 years ago and they are no longer in posession - even archive department

Oh okay. Yes he has come to the conclusion that not divorcing all these years was a huge mistake coupled with the IRS issue.