Several years ago I was involved in a bitter divorce. The woman I married was
from a foreign country. We were married a year and a half. She was in the U.S.
six mouths before I filed for divorce.
Little did I realize I was one of thousands of American men and woman who
find out to late they where used as a tool to gain entry into the United
States. This woman stole every legal and financial document from my home. I
don’t even have a copy of my marriage certificate or the wedding video I paid
for.
I foolishly give her thousands dollars in her home country, equivalent to ten
years wages and a car valued at $12.000. Not including the legal fees
bringing her to the U.S.
She did a very effective job convincing everyone she was the poor victim of
an abusive husband. Despite the fact I filed for divorce without prejudice
and refused the advice of my attorney to file a Protective order.
Claiming spousal abuse affects a woman’s visa status. A foreign woman can
make any claim, even if false to the Immigration service and a man has no
right to know or defend himself from these claims unless a criminal charge is
filed.
Did my local, state and national government come to my aid, quite the
opposite! In a tape recorded conversation with a Kansas City representative
of Kansas Senator Brownback I was told “Maybe when she gets married again
she’ll like this one better”. I was told by the immigration service in
Wichita Kansas “we hear the same story everyday, men lose there homes, kids
and business” there’s nothing we can do about it.
I was thrown out of my home on a trumped up protective order. I was not
allowed by the judge to be present or represented at the hearing to challenge
the protective order because she claimed she was afraid of me. Yet, she
returned to my home three times, two times with her 11 year old daughter
prior to this hearing. Would you allow your child around someone so dangerous?
These temporary orders where kept in place for a year after the divorce
without any input from my side. The only testimony permitted at this hearing
was detrimental to me, in the case of my ex-wife a literal vested interest in
making me sound as negative as possible. To be denied the right to defend
yourself, absolutely Un-American, but if you are a foreign national you can
get a way with it in the United States.
There are very valid laws protecting foreign women in the United States, I
support many or these laws. The problem is you have unscrupulous attorneys
who specialize in distorting these well meaning laws to protect people who
may not be covered under there intent.
Protective orders are being handed out like dime store candy. I wonder how
may of these orders are legitimate or a ploy by unscrupulous divorce
attorneys looking to make a dollar off someone else’s tragedy, or an act of
revenge by a spouse.
I suggest any American citizen get good legal advice and sign a pre-nuptial
agreement before marrying a foreigner. If this person begins to ask for large
amounts of money, drop the relationship, it can mean only one thing.
I received shabby treatment in the 27th judicial district of Kansas. The
Judge could have been sitting at the table with my ex-wife and her attorney
rather then on the bench.
At the age of 50 this was my first marriage and divorce. I have found the
divorce system in Kansas is one of lies and judicial prejudice. Something
needs to be done to clean this system up! Divorce is such a money maker for
attorneys I don’t think this will happen.
I suggest under United States law to a foreign national the marriage must
last three years before any claim can be made, with the exception of child
support. I think this could help citizens like me who find themselves
unwittingly snared in a legal and finical nightmare. I also think in civil
matters the appeals process is too expensive and timely, local judges have
too much power and not enough oversight.
My attorney expressed disgust at the unfair way I was treated. Something
needs to be done to protect American citizens from very sophisticated
foreigners who know how to work the system and a legal/political system that
has turned its back on its own citizens.
In the out of court settlement my ex-wife was supposed to provide me with her
social security number for our joint income tax filling. I was provided with
a false SSN.
When this matter was brought before the Judge handling the case he refused to
force disclose of the social security number and made me pay $500 in legal
fees. The judge also claimed I was disrespectful in court, yet when I got a
copy of the court transcripts the only statement I said, in response to a
question by the Judge was “yes sir”.
I lived up to my end of the agreement, but to this day my ex-wife got away
without honoring her part of the settlement.
My ex-wife got away with it. She has remarried and to the best of my
knowledge lives in Topeka Kansas. Which only goes to shows with the outright
hostility of the U.S. government to its own citizens, and the right shyster,
you can get away with anything in the United States.
It is true; I was very foolish and should have known better. I also know many
Americans have wonderful marriages to foreign nationals; I wish the best to
you and am on your side.
With some changes this letter was sent to Kansas Senator Sam Brownback,
Kansas Senator Pat Roberts, and Kansas Representative Jerry Moran. I have yet
to receive a reply
I am working vigorously to put an end to VAWA. United States citizen are
being taken advantage of by foreign nationals, instead of protecting its
citizens, the U.S. government is adding and abiding crimes against it's on
people. I speak as one of those victims. If VAWA was an honest attempt to
protect people it would be fine. The problem is VAWA is being used by very
sophisticated foreigners in conjunction with scurrilous lawyers to get around
safeguards for American citizens. VAWA is a form of legalized terrorism
against American citizens.
GHB
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