Visa Question

[LatinaDreaming]

Hello Everyone -it has been a while since I posted. Glad to see the "core guys" are still around.

Hey I got a question that someone may be able to help me with. Is Bala still posting here?

Here is the situation:

A girl I met in Barr. came over on a Fiance Visa with another guy a couple months ago. We have remained friends and stayed in contact via email and occasional phone calls since she arrived in the U.S. About 2 weeks ago, she called me crying saying that the ex-wife of her boyfriend beat her up with the help of her adult daughter. This was at a public event and the police were called and the ex-wife was arrested along with my friend's boyfriend. The boyfriend was arrested for hitting the ex-wife to get her off of my friend. My friend was hurt badly and she told me the police took pictures of her scares and bruises. My friend was at home scared because she has no one to help her out as she does not know anyone in the city or in the U.S. beside me. Since she lives many states away from me it was not much I could do.

She is in the last 30 days of the visa and now does not want to marry this guy, but she does not want to go back Colombia. The boyfriend is apologetic and wants to marry her immediately. She wants to stay here so she will probably marry him just to get her documents.

I remember talk about a change of status of a visa if the woman was abused. My question is: Would this case qualify for her to get a change of status of her visa without marrying this guy????? Thanks for any help here.

[DennisLevy]

Heres my take....

if youre thinking of being the comforting friend with the emphasis on comforting.....dont.

She made her choice, if it doesnt work out with the boyfriend then she needs to do the legal thing and go back home.

Dont get involved......

[TBOND]

Hello LatinaDreaming

I am not a lawyer but since the person who she intended to marry was not directly responsible for the abuse, I do not know if she could use that claim to stay in the US. Basically, She was assaulted. Again, I would check it out but on the surface I, am not sure she can pull the abuse card.

TB

[DennisLevy]

My post was snippy....my apologies.

But this is the first fiancee getting beaten up by the boyfriends ex wife and daughter story Ive ever heard. It sounds like a whopper to me.

[Jim]

Dennis is right on both counts. DON'T GET INVOLVED. In the first place the story probably isn't true.

Colombiana have an elaborate network of friends and contacts in the US to foil the system and get to stay in the US. Don't let her use you unless you want your life to get a whole lot more complicated,

Believe it or not things would have a lot different if the abuse happened after they got married. She could leave her husband and moved in with you. Guess what? The abusive husband would on the financial hook, not you. Not to mention she probably would not be deportable.

[LatinaDreaming]

Thanks for the response guys, but this is a true story as I talked to my friend's boyfriend and he told me the same exact story and he spent the night in jail. I do not plan to be on the hook for this girl either. I am just a friend. We did date back in Colombia, but that is as far as I am planning to take it. I just wanted to know if there is anything she can do to stay here without marrying this guy. I forgot she does have cousins in another state she can go live with, but she does not want to be here illegally.

I called Gary Bala and left a message.

[Sailover]

A woman who would marry for papers, no matter how much she wanted them, is someone that can't be trusted, can she. It is called fraud and if she is willing to take that step, there are likely others that wouldn't bother her. There are countless stories of women (and men) who have married for papers and once on the golden shores, disappear, or much worse.