Hello everyone. I'm an old timer from way back and check in every once in a while to see how things are, or to answer any questions or in this case to ask a question.
First of all I have been married to a RW for 16 months now and all I can say is that it has been an adventure. I think it is like any marriage, some days are really great and then some are pretty bad. Recently we have been hitting the bad more than the good, but I am hoping for better days.
Any ways, my question has to do with a mutual friend of my wife and myself. She is a young RW married to a American back in August and has filed all the paper work with the INS in December. Now here is the bad news. Apparently her husband was a little wacky and quite a depressive type personality. He hid it well while meeting this woman in Russia and a vacation in Europe before they married. His statement was he figure he couldn't get an American woman so he figured he could con a RW into marrying him. Well he was 25 years older than her and after I met him and got to know the RW much better, you could see bad things happening. Well, it did. Two nights ago he KILLED himself and put himself out of his misery. Trust me me was a very depressed person and this woman was really quite depressed herself upon finding out the situation she got herself into. She of course has really enjoyed her stay in the U.S. despite the troubled marriage. She has a good job and has made many friends, Americna as well as Russian. She wants to stay, so now the $64,000.00 question is, does anybody have any idea what her chances/options are to stay here now that she is a widow, but not a conditional resident yet. I figuire maybe there are some legal beagles out there who might be able tolend some assistance. Of course she is going to contact the INS, but before she does, I tolkd her I owuld check out and see if I can find any helpful information for her.
So if any one can lend some knowledge, I'd appreciate it.
Thanks,
DonP
