Hello, I am trying to help my friend who has escaped from a violent spouse and is currently staying with me in Nova Scotia.
She is a natural born USA citizen and has a 15 year old child who is also staying with us.
She has been allowed at POE to visit for the 3rd time in 3 years, for a 6 months stay, since this September.
She may need to return for her child's state online school exams that have to be done in person in April. She must leave by March if she doesn't want to overstay her visitor visa. She has nowhere to stay in the USA, as her spouse moved into a 1 br apartment at the same time that she left for Canada in Sept, and also because he has consistently been voilently, finanancially and emotionally abusive, and has frequently put the child in dangerous and inappropriate situations.
Her spouse was brought to Canada from the Phillipines when he was 6 years old and is currently around 45 years old. He has had trouble getting legal status, even though his parents live in the USA and have since obtained either permanent residence or citizenship.
He is very secretive and avoids using his home address or allowing her any access to his immigration and criminal lawyers.
It is believed he has had trouble obtaining legal status in the USA for so long because of a criminal charge for drug possession or trafficking, which has since been "taken care of", apparently due to an agreement to testify against others.
She has been seeking divorce for over 13 years, but he has agressively coerced and guilted her into staying married, telling her that she can testify at court for him, so he will not be deported away from his child.
His child no longer wants or seeks any contact, due to physical and emotional neglect and being put in dangerous situations. Also due to witnessing violence, harassment, and financal abuse against his mother.
This court date has mysteriously been arranged and rescheduled multiple times, for all these years, but supposedly will finally be held in early 2024.
Personally, I am afraid that if she goes there and vouches for him and their marriage in court, he will then have no reason to hold back on his abuse. Her biggest fear is that he will try for full custody, or take their child to the Phillipines and not return. He has made threats and has access to funds while she does not.
He is currently working as a radiologist, while she has had to quit working in order to homeschool her child through the pandemic. She had not been living with him for around a decade, but lost her home and had to move in with him. She is afraid for her child's safety, so she tries not to let the father be alone with the child.
She is obviously in a state of trauma and survival and would often try to lock herself in her bedroom to avoid him whenever he was home from work, though he would attempt to break the door if angered.
She has extensive experience working in general maintenance, and has a cosmetology certificate. She also has experience in food service but would prefer a maintenance job. She is excellent at cleaning and enjoys being able to do vigorous cleaning work without much or any supervision. She also has fairly recent experience doing night firewatch at construction sites and enjoyed that job. She would have kept doing that, but her spouse chose to move too far away for her to get transportation, and refused to let her keep or maintain a working vehicle.
I am a natural born Canadian, but low income myself, due to being disabled, though I have yet to apply for disability.
I can and have been providing 2 bedrooms in my house, for her and her child to stay in permanently, or as long as she likes .
How can I help her be able to work and immigrate to Canada? She ultimately doesn't want to return to the USA, except for short camping vacations.
She is a natural born USA citizen and has a 15 year old child who is also staying with us.
She has been allowed at POE to visit for the 3rd time in 3 years, for a 6 months stay, since this September.
She may need to return for her child's state online school exams that have to be done in person in April. She must leave by March if she doesn't want to overstay her visitor visa. She has nowhere to stay in the USA, as her spouse moved into a 1 br apartment at the same time that she left for Canada in Sept, and also because he has consistently been voilently, finanancially and emotionally abusive, and has frequently put the child in dangerous and inappropriate situations.
Her spouse was brought to Canada from the Phillipines when he was 6 years old and is currently around 45 years old. He has had trouble getting legal status, even though his parents live in the USA and have since obtained either permanent residence or citizenship.
He is very secretive and avoids using his home address or allowing her any access to his immigration and criminal lawyers.
It is believed he has had trouble obtaining legal status in the USA for so long because of a criminal charge for drug possession or trafficking, which has since been "taken care of", apparently due to an agreement to testify against others.
She has been seeking divorce for over 13 years, but he has agressively coerced and guilted her into staying married, telling her that she can testify at court for him, so he will not be deported away from his child.
His child no longer wants or seeks any contact, due to physical and emotional neglect and being put in dangerous situations. Also due to witnessing violence, harassment, and financal abuse against his mother.
This court date has mysteriously been arranged and rescheduled multiple times, for all these years, but supposedly will finally be held in early 2024.
Personally, I am afraid that if she goes there and vouches for him and their marriage in court, he will then have no reason to hold back on his abuse. Her biggest fear is that he will try for full custody, or take their child to the Phillipines and not return. He has made threats and has access to funds while she does not.
He is currently working as a radiologist, while she has had to quit working in order to homeschool her child through the pandemic. She had not been living with him for around a decade, but lost her home and had to move in with him. She is afraid for her child's safety, so she tries not to let the father be alone with the child.
She is obviously in a state of trauma and survival and would often try to lock herself in her bedroom to avoid him whenever he was home from work, though he would attempt to break the door if angered.
She has extensive experience working in general maintenance, and has a cosmetology certificate. She also has experience in food service but would prefer a maintenance job. She is excellent at cleaning and enjoys being able to do vigorous cleaning work without much or any supervision. She also has fairly recent experience doing night firewatch at construction sites and enjoyed that job. She would have kept doing that, but her spouse chose to move too far away for her to get transportation, and refused to let her keep or maintain a working vehicle.
I am a natural born Canadian, but low income myself, due to being disabled, though I have yet to apply for disability.
I can and have been providing 2 bedrooms in my house, for her and her child to stay in permanently, or as long as she likes .
How can I help her be able to work and immigrate to Canada? She ultimately doesn't want to return to the USA, except for short camping vacations.
