Please I hope someone can help me.

[dazednlost]

I have been in Canada for 8 months to live with my Fiance. I am a US citizen and we dated for 4 years, seeing each other 2 times a month. I drove here with full intentions of getting married and completing the Inland Family Sponsorship, but due to some financial problems, we have had to delay the marriage and the cost of Sponsoring me.

Now our relationship has taken a terrible dip in the road. I am trapped in an abusive relationship. He drove and wrecked my car and I cannot afford to fix it. I have a degree in finance but i have been working cleaning houses to help with food and rent but not enough to live on and i don't have PR status or work permit since we were going the family sponsorship route.

Bottom line, I have no family in the US and have lost contact with any friends that I could possibly help me. I don't have the funds to fix my car nor the money for transportation to the US if i even had someplace to go there.

Should I go to the nearest police station? Any consulate in Calgary? Will they just take me to the border and drop me off homeless with no food or money? Do I lose my car at our apartment?

Please, what options do I have? I do the accounting for the cleaning company i work for and they would pay me very good to be the office manager but i have to have a work permit and from what I have tried to do, they would not be able to hire me due to LMO restrictions.

Any advice or help or where to look and ask would be helpful. I never thought this would ever happen but it did.

I'm trapped in a country with no family and an abusive man.

 

[Leon]

You could ask to be deported as you are in Canada for 8 months without extending your status but this would probably cause you to be banned from Canada for a couple of years and you would also be liable to pay your deportation costs back and you would still be dropped off in the US without any money. Another option would be to ask the US embassy if they can help you with an emergency loan to get home.

If you want to stay, you need the employer to apply for an LMO. If they get it, you can go to the border and get your work permit instantly. If your boyfriend is abusive, you should leave him but if he knows you are working illegally, he could of course report you for it and you could get deported. I do not know how bad your boyfriend is. There are shelters for abused women you could try too.

Have you gotten an estimate to fix your car or trade it in for another car that runs? If you are working, you have some money, right?

 

[CAforCA]

My two cents

Forget about the car, if you are in an abusive relationship just get out it is not worth staying. Get enough money for a greyhound oneway ticket to US. Once you cross the border you can get minimum wage work till you find your way back home. I am sure with your american passport you can breeze thru the immigration section. If I were in your place I would get triple A to tow the car .. you can collect it when you have enough money ofcourse they would charge you to keep the car with them and fix it.

 

[farid-]

option b, which is not good to mention but still i was feeling bad for you. find a cash job. might be an odd job but you need money badly so can make it by driving job or something. once you ave enough get out of the mess and don't lose hope above all Leon was also absolutely right about may be women shelter or can try community service center they can also help you in finding the right solution.
best of luck.