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  • 10-19-2016, 10:56 AM
    eriola
    How to Get Your Green Card After Leaving a Marriage Due to Abuse
    I came to america with K-1 fiance visa.
    my fiance did all the applications. I arrive here on November 2, 2014. Before i came to America we were together since 2013.One year. he came in my country and we lived there together for a month. we were so in love and had a great relationships. i was so happy. after that he came back to his home in America, and we were waiting for my paper process to be done,so we could finally be together here.
    i came here and we got married in 90 days. months went by and he started being a different person.
    He abused me physically several times and i was emotionally and phisically hurt,devastated. and i was alone,because i don't have any family here. besides him, his family that lives with us was offending me and making me feel very little. They told me ,i have to wake up every mornin at 6 am to make coffe for everyone and breakfast. I have to clean the house every morning before i go to work,wash the dishes when i come back from work at 12 in the night,while they were all day home and did nothing. I have to always be nice, because men are men,it is ok for my husband to yell or hit me. because if i don't do what they want me to do, i have to be punished from the husband. his father wanted to keep my money that i made at work. because only man can keep the money,i am stupid he said.
    i was alone,scared,hurt, i was in pain and they made me mentally sick.
    i couldn't talk to my family for this because they will be devastated.
    after 6 and a little months,i left the house. and i was hiding from them.

    while all this was happening,i had already applied now for the green card.
    when it was ready ,it was mailed at my husbands house.
    now he doesnt want to give it to me. and he said he destroyed it, because he said i should have stayed with him no matter what. and the law will not protect me and they will deport me.


    Now i don't know what to do. i am ALONE & TERRIFIED.
  • 10-19-2016, 02:36 PM
    Mr. Knowitall
    Re: How to Get Your Green Card After Leaving a Marriage Due to Abuse
    If you have already been granted permanent residency and are trying to take physical possession of your green card, but your ex- won't give it to you, raise the issue as part of your divorce case. If he destroyed it, ask the court to order him to pay the cost of replacing the card.

    If you do not yet have a lawyer, speak to a domestic violence shelter about possible sources of legal assistance.
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