Q. My U.S. citizen wife left me after I got my two-year temporary green card. Can I nevertheless get my permanent card? I married my wife last year and we lived together. My wife petitioned for me and I applied for permanent residence. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services approved the case and issued me a temporary green card valid for two years. My wife works, but she did not mention me when she filed her taxes. I am still looking for a job.
After my wife received her income tax refund, she packed her things and left our rented apartment, saying that I did not meet her demands. She told me that if she doesn’t help me with getting my permanent card, the authorities would come after me and deport me.
E., New York
A. If your marriage was bona fide or “real,” you can get your permanent card (valid for 10 years and renewable), without your wife’s help. However, you may have to divorce your wife.
You received a two-year conditional permanent resident card only because you became a permanent resident within two years of your marriage. The three reasons you can use to remove the condition without your wife’s signature, are : 1) you entered the marriage in good faith and the marriage was bona fide or “real” and it was terminated by divorce or annulment;. 2) you are the victim of spousal abuse or your child has suffered abuse from your wife 3) that leaving the United States would result in your suffering extreme hardship. Based on your letter, the easiest path to the permanent card for you may be proving that you enter the marriage in good faith marriage. It doesn’t help that your wife didn’t note her marriage to you on her tax return, but hopefully you have other proof that your marriage was bona fide.
You should look into getting a divorce. When a conditional permanent resident applies to self-petition to remove the condition based on a good faith marriage only, the USCIS will want to see a divorce or annulment decree before approving the petition. If your divorce or annulment is not final when the time comes to file form I-751, Petition to Remove the Conditions of Residence, you should nevertheless file the form. The USCIS will give you 87 days to get a divorce judgement. If you can’t get the judgement in time, the USCIS will refer your case to an immigration judge. The judge should give you more time to get a divorce or annulment decree.
Q. I came to New York with my father three months before my 16th birthday, entering illegally. How can I prove that I came to the United States before turning 16? I didn’t go to school before I turned 16, but I have a New York State GED certificate. I didn’t start school until I had already turned 16 and I don’t have a plane ticket with my name on it to prove the day I entered.
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The DIY divorce: Jilted husband marks 'Kev's half' on furniture before sawing it in half as he exacts bitter revenge on wife - Daily Mail
- Bitter Kevin Fiore, 56, trashed home and wrote offensive messages on walls
- Hacked sofa and dressing table in half, causing a total of 5,184 damage
- Bankrupt builder given two-year supervision order instead of jail term
By Helen Lawson
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A spurned husband exacted revenge on his former wife during divorce proceedings by sawing their furniture into pieces and labelling half of them as his.
Kevin Fiore, 56, caused 5,184 of damage to the 130,000 house in Werrington, Staffordshire, which he shared with wife Katrina, who walked out on him in March 2011.
The father-of-two, who had been married to the 39-year-old for three years after a 14 year relationship, hacked the sofa in half and wrote 'Kev's half' on the cushions.
Spurned: Kevin Fiore reacted to his divorce with ex-wife Katrina Fiore, right, by ransacking their home
A wardrobe, dressing table and two sets of drawers faced the wrath of the jilted man, who also tore down the loft ladder, trashed the bathroom and scrawled offensive messages on the walls.
Fiore, a bankrupt builder who now lives with his daughter from another relationship, pleaded guilty to criminal damage and walked away from Stoke-on-Trent Crown Court with a two-year supervision order as the judge called his antics 'mean and unpleasant'.
Judge Mark Eades told him: 'This was a piece of revenge upon your ex-partner.
'It was mean and unpleasant but, at the end of the day, it was only property, and the value falls firmly in the magistrates’ court bracket.
'Therefore I’m going to be mindful of the magistrates’ court guidelines.'
The court heard how Mrs Fiore had walked out on her husband, with whom she has a son, in March last year.
A sofa written on and slashed by Kevin Fiore on to show which half belonged to him and which half belonged to his wife Katrina
The bathroom at the marital home that had also been defaced by Kevin Fiore
The bedroom in the loft at the house which Fiore damaged by breaking up the furniture and walls
Fiona Cortese, prosecuting, said: 'On September 10 Mrs Fiore received a text message that said "There's nothing left, it's all trashed".
'As a result, Mrs Fiore went to the address and found various things had been damaged.'
Fiore sent an apologetic text to his wife the next day.
He was arrested and told police he had 'lost it' and that everything had gone wrong.
The court was told that Fiore had tried to sell the house but an estate agent said the garage, utility room and loft conversion would have to be demolished first because they were built without planning permission.
Colin Drew, defending, said his client was depressed and was being financially supported by his grown-up daughter.
He said: 'His total bankruptcy is approximately 62,000. He was a self-employed builder.
'He is out of work at the moment. He is signed off by his doctor because he has been suffering from depression.'
Mrs Fiores was not awarded compensation by the court because of her ex-husband's financial situation.
Rampage: The Fiore family home in Werrington, Staffordshire, which received 5,200 worth of damage
Close: Katrina Fiore, 39, at home with her and Kevin's 11-year-old son Brandon
After the sentencing, Mrs Fiore revealed the moment she discovered her house had been ransacked.
She said: ‘I told him I wanted a divorce but he refused to accept it.
‘He texted me telling me he'd trashed the house and I went round there with our son and just cried when I saw what he'd done.
‘We had a lovely expensive cream leather sofa which he'd sawn in half and scrawled 'Kev's Half' in black marker on the cushions.
‘I just cried when I walked round the house. ‘I am shocked that the judge let him walk free.
‘He deserved to be jailed for what he did to me and my family, I can't stand to look at him now.
‘I want him out of my life for good but I have to see him in court to discuss access to our son.’
She also spoke about her ‘deeply unhappy’ marriage to the builder.
Mrs Fiore said: ‘We were together for 14 years but got married four years ago in July 2008. I decided to call it a day because we'd simply grown apart.
‘We had nothing in common anymore and I didn't enjoy his company. He didn't do anything wrong really but I just didn't want to be with him anymore.’
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Scott Styris celebrates landmark century for Sussex - BBC News
Scott Styris says hitting the joint-third fastest Twenty20 century ranks as a special moment in his career.
The Sussex man hit an unbeaten 100 off just 37 balls in the quarter-final against Gloucestershire on Tuesday.
He told BBC Sussex: "As a player, you want to perform in big games and knock-out games. Any time you get a hundred is always pretty special.
"In a pressure game, under a bit of heat, it's up there. It was just nice to get the boys over the line."
The 37-year-old added: "The coach [Mark Robinson] talked about someone in the group being man of the match because that would mean that we have won. It was nice to be me."
Sussex, who have lost just one game in this year's tournament, have secured a place in the semi-finals for the first time since winning the trophy in 2009.
"These are the reasons you play the game - to win trophies and titles," the New Zealander continued.
"The way we've played in this tournament, we've been thoroughly deserving to go through to the last four.
"We've put ourselves in with a chance to win a trophy and that's what we want to do as a club."
Sussex had made a disastrous start to their innings, being reduced to 3-2 within seven balls after losing openers Luke Wright and Chris Nash.
However 60 runs off 38 balls by England wicketkeeper Matt Prior, coupled with 55 from Murray Goodwin and Styris' heroics helped Sussex to 230-4 - the highest score in this year's tournament.
Sussex cricket manager Mark Robinson was full of praise for Styris and his middle-order batsmen.
"It was brilliant hitting from Scott," he told BBC Sussex.
"He was doing some practise at Arundel on a really soft part of the outfield, launching soft balls.
"We were a bit incredulous then but he's put it into practise. It was some great, clean striking of a cricket ball.
"Matt counter-attacked and Muzz played at quite a good tempo.
"It was only at the end that he slowed down to try and give Scott the strike. They were important innings to get us on the front foot and Scott finished it off at the end."
Sussex are close to completing the paperwork on a deal for Styris to return for finals day in Cardiff at the end of next month.
"I'll come back for finals day," Styris continued.
"I've been away for four months now with the IPL as well, so it'll be nice to get back to New Zealand even though it is the middle of winter.
"As an overseas player it's always a little nervy coming to a new county.
"You want to show everybody they've made a wise choice in signing you."
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Sussex gang jailed for 37 years - The Argus.co.uk
Sussex gang jailed for 37 years
2:53pm Wednesday 25th July 2012 in News
Teenager Keyrillus Mechial was sitting in his car on August 3 when he spotted a group of masked men approaching a cash delivery van outside Higher Bevendean Post Office in Widdicombe Way, Moulsecoomb.
The 17-year-old called the police, and beeped his horn to warn the security guards.
The masked men faltered, and they got back in their silver BMW to drive off.
Keyrillus did not know it at the time, but his actions were to lead to sentences totalling more than 30 years for a team of criminals responsible for a spree of crimes in Sussex.
Gang members stole high-performance cars from driveways by breaking into homes to get the keys.
They fitted them with false plates and used them as getaway cars in robberies in Brighton and Worthing.
At Lewes Crown Court, Judge Michael Lawson said: “These burglaries were carried out by a group of young men who clearly had a plan.
“It carried on over a period of time. These vehicles were disguised. They were used for other criminal purposes, including robberies.”
The gang’s planning was undermined by a trail of forensic evidence left behind after cars were stolen in burglaries.
At least one gang member would get mixed up in a fight involving two members of the extended Dawes family of Brighton.
And Zak Marsden and John Paul Gallagher were arrested trying to escape from the scene of the Moulsecoomb raid.
As defending counsel Rhodri James put it: “It was a bungled, abortive, ineffective robbery.
“At the first suggestion of any third party involvement, the tooting of a horn, it fell apart.”
The fate of several conspirators was sealed by the DNA and fingerprints they left at the scene of their crimes.
A total of eight were sentenced in groups of two or three at Lewes Crown Court because there were too many of them to fit into the Court Four dock.
Some appeared on bail, carrying overnight bags and kissing their friends and family goodbye before entering the dock to learn their fate.
Others were brought up from the cells, exchanging handshakes or embraces with their co-defendants and blowing kisses to their supporters in the public gallery.
The biggest single crime of which any members were accused was a raid on security guards collecting cash from Sainsbury’s at Lyons Farm in Worthing on March 8 last year.
The culprits got away in two cars and opened a cashbox containing £25,000.
The money, though, was stained with security dye. When a dyed banknote was found inside a ticket machine at Worthing railway station on March 12, tests showed it carried Adam Willis’s fingerprint. Paul Addison’s DNA was also found.
At that point the gang was only beginning the crime spree for which they were sentenced.
Gallagher, Willis, Addison, Thomas Hignett and Paul Henaghan were involved in burgling homes and stealing cars between February and July. Some were never found; others were used in crimes.
Addison, Hignett and Henaghan all come from the same Merseyside neighbourhood but had moved to Sussex for different reasons before being drawn into crime.
In the Moulsecoomb raid, the robbers planned to swap getaway cars to make good their escape.
A Mazda was deliberately parked on the other side of bollards.
When they fled in their BMW, pursued by police, they pulled up on one side of the bollards, and ran to get in the Mazda on the other side.
The chase had become desperate, though. One robber was carried for a time on the bonnet of the car.
It was eventually abandoned in Kimberley Road. While Marsden and Gallagher were arrested, Willis and Addison got away. Addison wasn’t caught until December.
Before then, he was involved in a fight alongside Gary Dawes and his step-brother Lee Wright.
Dawes approached a car containing three men outside The Volks nightclub in Madeira Drive and asked if he could buy cocaine.
He made a comment about the size of his muscles and ended up punching one of the men through the car window.
Lee Wright – Dawes’s stepbrother – joined Dawes in the attack, and Addison also took part.
After the sentencings, Judge Lawson commended Mr Mechial and awarded him £250.
Mr Mechial said later: “I was happy to hear the sentences. So many people saw it and did not think anything of it.
“I’m still pleased I did what I did.”
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The boy who can only see in the dark: Colour-blind toddler is dazzled by sunlight - Daily Mail
- Harvey can only see black, white and shades of grey due to a rare vision deficiency
- His parents have just found out Harvey's younger sister also has the condition
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Three-year-old Harvey Webb has a rare condition that means he is blinded by light - and has to wear special heavy-duty sunglasses to help him see.
Parents Louise and Andy, have resorted to keeping their curtains closed at the family home in Tonbridge, Kent, to help their son see their faces.
Harvey’s condition, known as Achromatopsia, means he is also completely colour blind - and can only see the world in black and white.
Louise, 35, said her son may never see a sunrise or sunset because his eyes cannot handle the light.
Harvey must wear special sunglasses to help him to see outside. At home the curtains are always closed
Andy, 34, a recruitment consultant, said: 'Normal daylight to him is like the glare you get when you are driving on a wet day and sunlight reflects off the rainwater on the road.
'We have to make everything as dark as possible for him to be able to see.'
ACHROMATOPSIA: A COLOURLESS WORLD
Achromatopsia is total colour blindness and is the rarest type of colour vision deficiency.
Children with the condition are born with faulty cone photoreceptors in the eye.
This means they see everything in shades of black, white and grey. They have general poor sight with blurry central vision and are very sensitive to light.
However, the condition does not get any worse as they grow older.
They can use their outer vision to read and get around.
Louise, 35, added: 'When we first moved into our house we were worried the neighbours would just think we were really unfriendly, as we always had the curtains shut.
'But we have to keep them closed to keep out as much sunlight as possible.'
Harvey puts on his prescription sunglasses when he gets up, and wears them until he goes to bed - they are designed to let only 10 per cent of light in.
The condition means Harvey struggles to play outside on bright days and he has to take cover from the rays.
The family have had to deal with comments from passers-by who think Harvey’s dark glasses are a fashion statement.
Louise said: 'It’s frustrating because obviously he can hardly see without them, and in the beginning | did worry about what people would think - a lot of people just think we put them on him to look cool.
'Thankfully most people are positive though, and say things like ‘cool shades’.'
Affecting just one in 35,000 people, the condition affects the retina meaning the cells responsible for colour and light sensitivity in the eye don’t function.
Andy and Louise Webb play with their son with the curtains closed
Andy and Louise have just found out their daughter Megan, 3months, has the same condition as Harvey
Harvey was diagnosed with Achromatopsia at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, in December 2009 after his parents noticed he was having trouble focusing.
They were initially assured this was down to a condition called Nystagmus, but at seven months old they were told the devastating diagnosis.
Andy said: 'We were shocked, and felt numb as we hadn’t heard of the condition before.
'As children so much is learnt through sight and observing things outdoors, such as wildlife in the trees or a plane in the sky.
'With Harvey we need to find other ways to show him so we use books and TV.'
Harvey won't be able to drive when he grows up but will attend mainstream school
Harvey’s baby sister Megan, three months old, has also been diagnosed although she doesn’t need special glasses yet, and can wear normal ones in bright light.
Louise said: 'We were distraught when we first found out and it felt like we were going through a kind of grieving process because we knew they wouldn’t be able to see the world how we see it.
'They’ll never know though as they were born with the condition and we certainly won’t let it stop them doing what they want to do.'
Harvey now goes to Dorton House nursery run by the Royal London Society for the Blind, helping him to make the most of what little vision he has.
His sight means he won’t ever be able to drive, and will need extra help in the classroom, although he will still attend a mainstream school.
There is currently no treatment for the condition but both Harvey and Megan are taking part in research for a cure, partly funded by the charity Fight for Sight.
Dr Tony Moore, consultant at Moorfields Eye Hosptial, London, said: 'Harvey’s activities will be restricted by his eyesight, and he will be less confident outdoors because of his extreme light sensitivity.
'His vision is much worse in bright sunlight.'
Louise said: 'It’s quite difficult for Andy as he would love to teach Harvey to play football but his sight makes co-ordination a bit difficult.
'That doesn’t mean he won’t try though, and we won’t let him dwell on what he will find difficult.'
Visit www.littleheroesappeal.com for more information on their appeal to help expand Dorton House specialist nursery for blind and partially sighted babies and toddlers
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lol. so funnyyyy
- william, london, uk, 25/7/2012 17:50
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