I'm concerned about my ex-husband's request to me last Friday. He is apparently applying for permanent residency. We were married less than 2 years and have been divorced 2 1/2 years and he lives part time in Australia and part time here. I guess it could be debated that he entered the marriage in good faith as he lived here with me only a few months off and on, but let's say he did--even so, we never shared any financial stuff of any kind, no shared lease, no joint checking account, and he's not really friends with any of my friends.
He says he filed under the divorce subsection so he could apply on his own. I never even knew he was doing it even when we were still friends (I now rarely talk to him and only see him at conferences for work occasionally). He says he needs fotos of us and he has none. I said I have none either, so he said he would drive up from NYC to the Berkshire mountains where I'm staying for the summer, drive up IMMEDIATELY with a digital camera to snap fotos of us and that the INS said this was fine. Why would they require current fotos of us if we are divorced several years and why would they want fotos at all?
I felt very uneasy. I refused to do it. I told him he could figure it out on his own. Then I called the INS twice and their customer service said it sounded fishy. They referred me to Investigations in Manhattan but you can never get through--you are simply funnelled into a voicemail and the voicemail box is full and you can't leave a message. This has been going on for days and I'm too frustrated.
I searched into the immigration law and what is required to prove the marriage was in good faith. He has very little of that--he can't get affadavits from my friends, he never met my family, he has no shared lease documents as I said, he lived with me only a short time, etc etc etc. So I am thinking either he desperately needs these fotos to prove we WERE in good faith, or else he is truly lying and is saying we're still married. OR else is he telling the truth and the INS wants fotos of us even though we are divorced, but that makes no sense to me at all.
Any help? Anybody know the law? And who can I contact and get THROUGH TO to find out? I would be very very upset if he were lying and I would be willing to file a protest. If he is telling the truth then that's okay but I do not want to be duped or used.
He says he filed under the divorce subsection so he could apply on his own. I never even knew he was doing it even when we were still friends (I now rarely talk to him and only see him at conferences for work occasionally). He says he needs fotos of us and he has none. I said I have none either, so he said he would drive up from NYC to the Berkshire mountains where I'm staying for the summer, drive up IMMEDIATELY with a digital camera to snap fotos of us and that the INS said this was fine. Why would they require current fotos of us if we are divorced several years and why would they want fotos at all?
I felt very uneasy. I refused to do it. I told him he could figure it out on his own. Then I called the INS twice and their customer service said it sounded fishy. They referred me to Investigations in Manhattan but you can never get through--you are simply funnelled into a voicemail and the voicemail box is full and you can't leave a message. This has been going on for days and I'm too frustrated.
I searched into the immigration law and what is required to prove the marriage was in good faith. He has very little of that--he can't get affadavits from my friends, he never met my family, he has no shared lease documents as I said, he lived with me only a short time, etc etc etc. So I am thinking either he desperately needs these fotos to prove we WERE in good faith, or else he is truly lying and is saying we're still married. OR else is he telling the truth and the INS wants fotos of us even though we are divorced, but that makes no sense to me at all.
Any help? Anybody know the law? And who can I contact and get THROUGH TO to find out? I would be very very upset if he were lying and I would be willing to file a protest. If he is telling the truth then that's okay but I do not want to be duped or used.
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