jason
05-24-2008, 12:20 AM
my wife had her appointment for I-601 on May, 19 2008. she was told that they needed to review it more because it was lacking evidence, this is a copy of the hsl that we summited along with evidance. they said i have 30 days to summit additional evidence, please give me advise on what to summit.
Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is xxxx a United States citizen and disabled veteran, I am writing this letter in support of the I-601 petition that I have filed for the waiver of excludability of my wife xxxxxx. I plead that you take in to consideration the extreme hardship that I have been dealing with for the past 2 years. It has been and will continue to be an extreme hardship and create much more stress in my life if my wife xxxxx is not able to obtain an immigration visa. In order for me to be with xxxxx I have had to relocate and completely change my life which has created an extreme hardship. I love xxxxxx with all my heart and I need to be with her, which is why I have relocated so that I can be with her. However I do not know how much longer we can continue living our lives in this situation, every area of my life has been drastically changed and has suffered by me living in Juarez. If xxxxxx is denied an Immigration visa we will have to live our lives separated, I will have to move to El Paso and xxxxxx will have to return to Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (which is over 300 miles away from El Paso and close to a 7 hour drive #A).
I met xxxxx in Albuquerque in 2005 while she was visiting a cousin of hers that worked with me, we went out on a few dates and enjoyed our time together and fell in love with each other. xxxxx and I went to her hometown in Cuauhtémoc for her brothers wedding in February of 2006, I met her family and our relationship grew stronger. I knew that I wanted xxxxx in my life for ever; however when we were returning xxxxx was not allowed to receive a permit to go back to Albuquerque and that devastated me. I finally found that one special person that I wanted to spend the rest of my life but she was unable to return back to the United States. xxxxxx returned to her hometown in Cuactamoc and every Friday I would drive from Albuquerque to Juarez and xxxxxx would take a bus from Cuauhtémoc to Juarez so that we could spend time together.
I am a United States citizen forced to live in Mexico in order to be with my wife. xxxxxx and I have been married for two years and I have relocated so that we can be together. My relationship with my children has suffered since I have relocated, my financial situation and life style has declined and I live in fear. xxxxxx and I want to have a baby together but we can not do that with our current situation, the only way that this will be possible is if we are able to be living in the United States. If we are able to live in the United States I know that my relationship with my children will greatly improve, I will be able to recoup the financial losses and I will be able to have peace in my life. I hope that we do not loose out on our chance to have a family together, xxxxx is 35 years old and I am 34 years old so our window of opportunity of having a baby will not be open much longer. Also xxxxxx parents are permanent residents and live in Arizona, her father xxxxxxx is 72 and her mother xxxxxxx is 68. Both of her parents have diabetes and traveling is very hard on them, but it is the only way they can see xxxxxx.
Children that are U S citizens
I have two children from a previous marriage that are U S citizens and live in Albuquerque, NM. xxxxxxx born July 12, 1995 and xxxxxxx born January 27, 1999. Since I have relocated on July 1, 2006 in order to be with xxxxx I have not been able to see my children the way a parent should. I am torn between my moral obligation to my children and my obligation to my wife, I am sadden by the fact that I want my children in my life but they are not. When I was living in Albuquerque xxxxx and xxxxx would stay with me on weekends and I was very active in their lives. My ex wife will not allow me to bring my kids to Juarez because it is such a dangerous city, which creates emotional stress to me not being able to spend time with my children.
Since I have relocated to be with my wife I have only been able to see my children a few times and I must drive to Albuquerque which is a 5 hour trip one way spend the day with them and drive 5 more hours back to Juarez that night. The drive back after seeing my children is very hard and emotional and making the trip creates financial stress. I grew up with out a father in my life and now I hate the fact that I am doing the same thing to my children, I do not want my kids to grow up with the emptiness that I felt growing up. My children mean a lot to me and I want to be involved in their lives as much as possible, I want to be able to see them grow up I am really missing out on a lot of things in their lives. I also have family in Ohio that I have not seen in a long time and my wife has never met any one from my family. I can not go to Ohio to visit my family alone with out xxxxxx, xxxxx or my children, and it is impossible for all of my family to come to Juarez to visit us.
Fear
Living in Juarez has been the hardest and scariest thing that I have had to do in my life; they have been killing and kidnapping people on a daily basic. Every morning I leave for work at 6 am, it is dark and dangerous. I have seen a tied up body lying in the middle of the street not knowing if the body was dead or alive and too scared to stop and help. My greatest fear is that something may happen to xxxxxx because of all the violence in Juarez.(#B)
xxxxx works at a clothing store and she is alone 90% of the time, I am scared of my wife being alone in Juarez. Neither xxxxxx or I are from Juarez or El Paso, we are alone here with no family. One day xxxxx called me crying and told me that someone had stolen our car (#C) while she was at school for English, I thank God that nothing happened to her. Even in this emergency situation it still took me over an hour to get from my job to where xxxxx was, the whole time I was trying to get her I felt helpless because I could not do any thing to help xxxxx. xxxxxx was scared and crying but I could not explain the situation to the police or do any thing to help. The situation was very stressful and I had to figure out how I was going to be able to replace a car making half the money I was used to making in Albuquerque.
I do not speak a lot Spanish so most of the time I do not exactly what is going on around me or what people are saying to me. That is a scary situation to be in on a daily basis, and causes extra stress. I really like the city of El Paso, and that is were I want to make a life with xxxxx and xxxxx. I recently started my own business in El Paso and I need my wife to be with me in order for the business to grow and reach its potential. I can not live a comfortable life with the violence that is happening on a daily basis and worrying for the safety of xxxxxx.
I am a United States citizen and a disabled veteran (#D) which requires periodical medical attention. All I want is to be able to live my life with out worrying that my car may get stolen, someone may rob me or that someone may hurt xxxxx and xxxxx. I try not to put myself in any situation may be dangerous but in Juarez it does not matter how careful you are, all it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Financial
I have taken a very large decrease in pay since I have relocated to be with my wife; I was making $750.00 per week while living in Albuquerque but only $400.00 per week working in El Paso. Not only has my standard of living declined but I can not pay all of my bills when they need to be paid. As I stated before I have started my own business in order to try in improve our standard of living but I am losing out on potential jobs for the business because I am not fluent enough in Spanish, This is another reason why I need xxxxxx with me in El Paso. I am using more gas because I have to commute back and forth from Juarez to El Paso six days a week, and I am spending over $25.00 a week to pay the fees at the Zaragoza Bridge. I know that if xxxxxxx was with me and helping me in El Paso my business would be far more successful.
Ever since I have relocated I have struggled to pay my bills and my child support, I know that the only way to improve our financial situation was to start the business. No company in El Paso was willing to pay me what I was earning in Albuquerque; the most they were willing to pay was $10.00 per hour with no overtime. Even after 15 months with the same company I was not able to get a pay raise and I have a lot of stress due to my financial situation. Now that I have started my business I can control how much I earn, however not living in El Paso is making it more difficult. There are times when I get phone calls in the evenings and on Sundays from clients who need emergency service and I when I tell them that I can be at their home in two hours they tell me that they will call another company. I do not have my work van with me in Juarez due to insurance and the chance that it may get stolen, I have to park it at a friends house in Horizon. So as you can see every day I have to wait to cross the bridge drive to Horizon to pick up my work van and then drive to my job sites or to where I am marketing my company to, from the time I leave my house until I pick up my van in one hour and 15 minutes. I am losing money because I am not living in El Paso with my work van park out side of my house and able to respond quickly.
Cultural, Language and Lifestyle
I was born and raised in Toledo, OH and have experienced a huge cultural shock. A lot of times people view me as rude or selfish because I do not speak much Spanish and there is a culture difference then I grew up with, I am learning more about the culture in Mexico but the language difference makes it almost impossible. I not being able to communicate is making my life very difficult, and there is valid fear. It is like I am living two total different lives on a daily basis, I have my life always alone in El Paso with my business and then I have my life in Juarez with my xxxxxx and xxxxxxx.
It is very difficult trying to start and run a business in a different country then you live in and your family not being able to be involved or help the business. xxxxxx has not been able to help the business grow and prosper, the business is our future and how we pay our bills, eat and survive. I leave for work at 6 AM every day Monday thru Saturday and go to El Paso to make my business grow and prosper leaving my wife in Juarez. I am alone all day long until I get home after 6 PM, everything that I see and do on a daily basis I can not share with my wife. With out xxxxx being able to enter the United States she really can not have much involvement with the business or understand the business. This is creating a lot of stress upon me not being to have my wife with me helping to make our future, I need her with me so she can help the business and so I am not losing potential clients that do not speak English. The language is a major problem and very stressful, I can not communicate with the people in Juarez. xxxxxx has to order my food for me, purchase movie tickets, tell me where they want me to park and much more. If something happened to my wife and I had to rush her to the hospital I would not be able to tell the doctors and nurses what happened and what is wrong.
Summary
I hope that this letter has shown details of the extreme hardships that have occurred since I have relocated to be with my wife. My desire is to be able to move to El Paso with my wife xxxxxx and xxxx, however if their immigration visas are denied we are going to have to make changes. We will not be able to continue living together in Juarez and we will have to continue our marriage living separated. I absolutely must live my life in El Paso for many reasons that I have explained previously in this letter. I need to be able to have a relationship with my children, I need to be able to live in the city which my business is in and I can not live in a city with fear and not be able to communicate. If I have to move to El Paso alone with out xxxxx and xxxx they will move back to Cuauhtemoc so they can at least be with their family. This will create more stress in our lives because I will only be able to travel to Cuauhtémoc to spend time with my wife one week end a month. xxxxx has been going to school to learn English, she has no police record in either the United States or Mexico and has great moral and character and will be no danger to the United States if her visa is granted.
#A mapquest showing location and travel time
#B copies of juarez violance from the el paso times web site
#C proof of vehical theft report from juarez police
#D copy of dd-214 (military discharge and us army disabilaty rating
my ex wife has since moved and i have no way of contacting her, she has no phone and i dont have any contact with her family, i have not seen my children in 4 months.
please any advice is gratefully appreciated.
Dear Sir or Madam,
My name is xxxx a United States citizen and disabled veteran, I am writing this letter in support of the I-601 petition that I have filed for the waiver of excludability of my wife xxxxxx. I plead that you take in to consideration the extreme hardship that I have been dealing with for the past 2 years. It has been and will continue to be an extreme hardship and create much more stress in my life if my wife xxxxx is not able to obtain an immigration visa. In order for me to be with xxxxx I have had to relocate and completely change my life which has created an extreme hardship. I love xxxxxx with all my heart and I need to be with her, which is why I have relocated so that I can be with her. However I do not know how much longer we can continue living our lives in this situation, every area of my life has been drastically changed and has suffered by me living in Juarez. If xxxxxx is denied an Immigration visa we will have to live our lives separated, I will have to move to El Paso and xxxxxx will have to return to Cuauhtémoc, Chihuahua (which is over 300 miles away from El Paso and close to a 7 hour drive #A).
I met xxxxx in Albuquerque in 2005 while she was visiting a cousin of hers that worked with me, we went out on a few dates and enjoyed our time together and fell in love with each other. xxxxx and I went to her hometown in Cuauhtémoc for her brothers wedding in February of 2006, I met her family and our relationship grew stronger. I knew that I wanted xxxxx in my life for ever; however when we were returning xxxxx was not allowed to receive a permit to go back to Albuquerque and that devastated me. I finally found that one special person that I wanted to spend the rest of my life but she was unable to return back to the United States. xxxxxx returned to her hometown in Cuactamoc and every Friday I would drive from Albuquerque to Juarez and xxxxxx would take a bus from Cuauhtémoc to Juarez so that we could spend time together.
I am a United States citizen forced to live in Mexico in order to be with my wife. xxxxxx and I have been married for two years and I have relocated so that we can be together. My relationship with my children has suffered since I have relocated, my financial situation and life style has declined and I live in fear. xxxxxx and I want to have a baby together but we can not do that with our current situation, the only way that this will be possible is if we are able to be living in the United States. If we are able to live in the United States I know that my relationship with my children will greatly improve, I will be able to recoup the financial losses and I will be able to have peace in my life. I hope that we do not loose out on our chance to have a family together, xxxxx is 35 years old and I am 34 years old so our window of opportunity of having a baby will not be open much longer. Also xxxxxx parents are permanent residents and live in Arizona, her father xxxxxxx is 72 and her mother xxxxxxx is 68. Both of her parents have diabetes and traveling is very hard on them, but it is the only way they can see xxxxxx.
Children that are U S citizens
I have two children from a previous marriage that are U S citizens and live in Albuquerque, NM. xxxxxxx born July 12, 1995 and xxxxxxx born January 27, 1999. Since I have relocated on July 1, 2006 in order to be with xxxxx I have not been able to see my children the way a parent should. I am torn between my moral obligation to my children and my obligation to my wife, I am sadden by the fact that I want my children in my life but they are not. When I was living in Albuquerque xxxxx and xxxxx would stay with me on weekends and I was very active in their lives. My ex wife will not allow me to bring my kids to Juarez because it is such a dangerous city, which creates emotional stress to me not being able to spend time with my children.
Since I have relocated to be with my wife I have only been able to see my children a few times and I must drive to Albuquerque which is a 5 hour trip one way spend the day with them and drive 5 more hours back to Juarez that night. The drive back after seeing my children is very hard and emotional and making the trip creates financial stress. I grew up with out a father in my life and now I hate the fact that I am doing the same thing to my children, I do not want my kids to grow up with the emptiness that I felt growing up. My children mean a lot to me and I want to be involved in their lives as much as possible, I want to be able to see them grow up I am really missing out on a lot of things in their lives. I also have family in Ohio that I have not seen in a long time and my wife has never met any one from my family. I can not go to Ohio to visit my family alone with out xxxxxx, xxxxx or my children, and it is impossible for all of my family to come to Juarez to visit us.
Fear
Living in Juarez has been the hardest and scariest thing that I have had to do in my life; they have been killing and kidnapping people on a daily basic. Every morning I leave for work at 6 am, it is dark and dangerous. I have seen a tied up body lying in the middle of the street not knowing if the body was dead or alive and too scared to stop and help. My greatest fear is that something may happen to xxxxxx because of all the violence in Juarez.(#B)
xxxxx works at a clothing store and she is alone 90% of the time, I am scared of my wife being alone in Juarez. Neither xxxxxx or I are from Juarez or El Paso, we are alone here with no family. One day xxxxx called me crying and told me that someone had stolen our car (#C) while she was at school for English, I thank God that nothing happened to her. Even in this emergency situation it still took me over an hour to get from my job to where xxxxx was, the whole time I was trying to get her I felt helpless because I could not do any thing to help xxxxx. xxxxxx was scared and crying but I could not explain the situation to the police or do any thing to help. The situation was very stressful and I had to figure out how I was going to be able to replace a car making half the money I was used to making in Albuquerque.
I do not speak a lot Spanish so most of the time I do not exactly what is going on around me or what people are saying to me. That is a scary situation to be in on a daily basis, and causes extra stress. I really like the city of El Paso, and that is were I want to make a life with xxxxx and xxxxx. I recently started my own business in El Paso and I need my wife to be with me in order for the business to grow and reach its potential. I can not live a comfortable life with the violence that is happening on a daily basis and worrying for the safety of xxxxxx.
I am a United States citizen and a disabled veteran (#D) which requires periodical medical attention. All I want is to be able to live my life with out worrying that my car may get stolen, someone may rob me or that someone may hurt xxxxx and xxxxx. I try not to put myself in any situation may be dangerous but in Juarez it does not matter how careful you are, all it takes is being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Financial
I have taken a very large decrease in pay since I have relocated to be with my wife; I was making $750.00 per week while living in Albuquerque but only $400.00 per week working in El Paso. Not only has my standard of living declined but I can not pay all of my bills when they need to be paid. As I stated before I have started my own business in order to try in improve our standard of living but I am losing out on potential jobs for the business because I am not fluent enough in Spanish, This is another reason why I need xxxxxx with me in El Paso. I am using more gas because I have to commute back and forth from Juarez to El Paso six days a week, and I am spending over $25.00 a week to pay the fees at the Zaragoza Bridge. I know that if xxxxxxx was with me and helping me in El Paso my business would be far more successful.
Ever since I have relocated I have struggled to pay my bills and my child support, I know that the only way to improve our financial situation was to start the business. No company in El Paso was willing to pay me what I was earning in Albuquerque; the most they were willing to pay was $10.00 per hour with no overtime. Even after 15 months with the same company I was not able to get a pay raise and I have a lot of stress due to my financial situation. Now that I have started my business I can control how much I earn, however not living in El Paso is making it more difficult. There are times when I get phone calls in the evenings and on Sundays from clients who need emergency service and I when I tell them that I can be at their home in two hours they tell me that they will call another company. I do not have my work van with me in Juarez due to insurance and the chance that it may get stolen, I have to park it at a friends house in Horizon. So as you can see every day I have to wait to cross the bridge drive to Horizon to pick up my work van and then drive to my job sites or to where I am marketing my company to, from the time I leave my house until I pick up my van in one hour and 15 minutes. I am losing money because I am not living in El Paso with my work van park out side of my house and able to respond quickly.
Cultural, Language and Lifestyle
I was born and raised in Toledo, OH and have experienced a huge cultural shock. A lot of times people view me as rude or selfish because I do not speak much Spanish and there is a culture difference then I grew up with, I am learning more about the culture in Mexico but the language difference makes it almost impossible. I not being able to communicate is making my life very difficult, and there is valid fear. It is like I am living two total different lives on a daily basis, I have my life always alone in El Paso with my business and then I have my life in Juarez with my xxxxxx and xxxxxxx.
It is very difficult trying to start and run a business in a different country then you live in and your family not being able to be involved or help the business. xxxxxx has not been able to help the business grow and prosper, the business is our future and how we pay our bills, eat and survive. I leave for work at 6 AM every day Monday thru Saturday and go to El Paso to make my business grow and prosper leaving my wife in Juarez. I am alone all day long until I get home after 6 PM, everything that I see and do on a daily basis I can not share with my wife. With out xxxxx being able to enter the United States she really can not have much involvement with the business or understand the business. This is creating a lot of stress upon me not being to have my wife with me helping to make our future, I need her with me so she can help the business and so I am not losing potential clients that do not speak English. The language is a major problem and very stressful, I can not communicate with the people in Juarez. xxxxxx has to order my food for me, purchase movie tickets, tell me where they want me to park and much more. If something happened to my wife and I had to rush her to the hospital I would not be able to tell the doctors and nurses what happened and what is wrong.
Summary
I hope that this letter has shown details of the extreme hardships that have occurred since I have relocated to be with my wife. My desire is to be able to move to El Paso with my wife xxxxxx and xxxx, however if their immigration visas are denied we are going to have to make changes. We will not be able to continue living together in Juarez and we will have to continue our marriage living separated. I absolutely must live my life in El Paso for many reasons that I have explained previously in this letter. I need to be able to have a relationship with my children, I need to be able to live in the city which my business is in and I can not live in a city with fear and not be able to communicate. If I have to move to El Paso alone with out xxxxx and xxxx they will move back to Cuauhtemoc so they can at least be with their family. This will create more stress in our lives because I will only be able to travel to Cuauhtémoc to spend time with my wife one week end a month. xxxxx has been going to school to learn English, she has no police record in either the United States or Mexico and has great moral and character and will be no danger to the United States if her visa is granted.
#A mapquest showing location and travel time
#B copies of juarez violance from the el paso times web site
#C proof of vehical theft report from juarez police
#D copy of dd-214 (military discharge and us army disabilaty rating
my ex wife has since moved and i have no way of contacting her, she has no phone and i dont have any contact with her family, i have not seen my children in 4 months.
please any advice is gratefully appreciated.