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Physical Abuse
- Scratching, punching, biting, strangling or kicking.
- Throwing something at you such as a phone, book, or shoe.
- Pulling your hair.
- Pushing or pulling you.
- Grabbing your clothing.
- Using a gun, knife, box cutter, bat, mace or other weapon.
- Smacking your bottom without your permission or consent.
- Forcing you to have or perform a ual act.
- Grabbing your face to make you look at them.
- Grabbing you to prevent you from leaving.
- Forcing you to go somewhere.
Emotional/Verbal Abuse - Calling you names and putting you down.
- Yelling and screaming at you.
- Intentionally embarrassing you in public.
- Preventing you from seeing or talking with friends and family.
- Telling you what to do and wear.
- Damaging your property when they’re angry.
- Using online communities or cell phones to control, intimidate or humiliate you.
- Blaming your actions for their abusive or unhealthy behavior.
- Accusing you of cheating and often being jealous of your outside relationships.
- Stalking you.
- Threatening to call ICE on you (deportation)
- Threatening to commit suicide to keep you from breaking up with them.
- Threatening to harm you, your pet or people you care about.
- Using gas lighting techniques to confuse or manipulate you.
- Making you feel guilty or immature when you don’t consent to ual activity.
- Threatening to expose your secrets such as your ual orientation or immigration status.
- Threatening to have your children taken away.
ual Abuse - Unwanted kissing or touching.
- Unwanted rough or violent ual activity.
- Rape or attempted rape.
- Refusing to use condoms or restricting your access to birth control.
- Threatening you into unwanted ual activity.
- Forcing you to have or perform ual acts.
- Using ual insults toward you.
Financial Abuse - Giving you an allowance and closely watching what you buy.
- Placing your paycheck in their account and denying you access to it.
- Keeping you from seeing shared bank accounts or records.
- Forbidding you to work or limiting the hours you do.
- Preventing you from going to work by taking your car or keys.
- Getting you fired by harassing you, your employer or coworkers on the job.
- Hiding or stealing your student financial aid check or outside financial support.
- Using your social security number to obtain credit without your permission.
- Using your child’s social security number to claim an income tax refund without your permission.
- Maxing out your credit cards without your permission.
- Refusing to give you money, food, rent, medicine or clothing.
- Using funds from your joint savings account without your knowledge.
- Spending money on themselves but not allowing you to do the same.
- Using their money to hold power over you.
How Soon To Apply For VAWAYou must file VAWA right away. As soon as you have enough evidence of the abuse, you should leave the shared home and file form I-360 with USCIS. Although you are not required to leave the shared residence, it’s probably best for your own safety. There are two steps to filing for VAWA: Step 1: Filing form I-360 with USCIS To be able to apply for a green card under VAWA, you must first fill out Form I-360 and submit it to USCIS. You must also send documentary evidence showing that you meet the eligibility requirements. There is no filing fee for self-petitioning a VAWA case. Note: Form I-360 can be used for many different purposes so you will not need to fill out the entire form. You can skip the following sections: - Part 5. Complete Only If Filing for an Amerasian;
- Part 6. Complete Only If Filing for a Special Immigrant Juvenile Court Dependent;
- Part 8. Complete Only If Filing a Special Immigrant Religious Worker Petition;
- Part 7 and Part 9.
Most of the form is pretty straightforward; however, there are a few things to remember. You can use a different address than your abusive spouse (or ex-spouse) in Part 1, in case you are still living with them. This is the address where you will received USCIS notices, so be sure that you can receive mail at this address in the future. If you want to use your shared address, you can leave Part 1 blank and proceed to Part 2. For a VAWA abuse case you should check either box “i” or box “j” in Part 2. Parts 3 and 4 ask you for information about yourself. Part 7A asks for information about the abuser and Part 7B asks for more information about your relationship with the abuser. Be sure to list all children in Part 9—yours, and if you are filing as the spouse of an abuser, the abuser’s children also (whether they’re yours or not). Step 2: Filing form I-485 for U.S. green card Once your VAWA case is approved, you will be able to file From I-485 Adjustment of Statuswith USCIS. I will not go into detail about the steps for AOS, but you can certainly check out the guides I provide at the top.
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