
7 Types of Emotional Abuse for a VAWA Green Card

For two weeks after my husband drove away in our RV, I stayed at a hostel. All I could think about were the constant feelings of loneliness and desperation brought back from my childhood. During that time, I got to know Jose, who took sympathy on me. He bought me a 1996 Ford Club Wagon that had a bed. My husband had taken away the roof protecting me; a stranger gave me one.
The woman who survived being abandoned by her US citizen husband recently got her green card in the mail. She’s a Blandon Law client and we filed a Violence Against Women Act VAWA I-360 for her. The abandonment wasn’t the only type of abuse, but it was part of the pattern of emotional harm that he put her through.
Other immigration attorneys refer their VAWA immigrants to Blandon Law because of our high rate of approvals. If you were abandoned, contact us today and schedule a chat to see if you qualify.
Seven Types of Emotional Abuse
During our chat, you’re in control. You ask the questions and voice your fears. If your US citizen or legal permanent spouse, adult child, or parent has tried to control you using the following, you might get a VAWA green card:
- Intimidation – making the immigrant afraid by abusing pets or smashing things
- Coercion and threats – making the immigrant do illegal things or threatening suicide
- Isolation – controlling who the immigrant talks, sees, or reads
- Economic abuse – preventing the immigrant from getting or keeping a job
- Using children – making the immigrant feel guilty about the children or threatening to take children away
- Humiliation – calling names especially in public, making the immigrant feel guilty
- Denial – making light of the abuse, saying it didn’t happen, or shifting responsibility for the abuse onto the immigrant (“You made me do that”)
What’s the Next Step After I-360 VAWA?
After the VAWA case is approved — or sometimes before the US Citizenship and Immigration Service USCIS makes its decision — Blandon Law clients get a work permit, a Social Security card, a drivers license in most states, and financial help. If the survivor is not unqualified (due to certain crimes, for example), the next step will be the green card arriving in the mail. We also prepare clients if there is a USCIS interview. For the survivor who wrote the statement above, there was no interview.
The I-360 VAWA case based on psychological and emotional harm is not easy, but our clients win them regularly. Past results, of course, are not a guarantee of what will happen for you. We only accept clients if we think we can get them a VAWA green card. Call 954.385.0157 or click “For Future Clients” today to schedule our talk and find out if you qualify. Enough is Enough.
Disclaimer – These entries are based on real life events. Family member names, when used, are real. Client names are changed for privacy.