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mbiv2000
Jul 16, 2010, 04:37 AM
I have a very non typical situation. I am an American male divorced sinced Dec. 2008 from a Czech wife. We have lived in the Czech Republic for the past 10 years building a very successful business. I was so naïve that I let the legal entity for the business be in her name. We have four beautiful children, ages 7-15, who are now in her custody. We amassed around 5 million usd worth of assets here in Czech, including a huge home and other real estate. Fortunetely Czech law states that everything we acquired during the marriage is 50/50. All real estate is in our joint names but the business is in her's only. She has managed to kick me out of the business since 2007 leaving me almost pennyless and unable to touch any of our assets. I am now in the final states of the divorce property settlement and hope to finish in the next 6-8 months which will give me enough money to re-establish myself. The problem is that she has continued to use the Green card she acquired in 1998 to travel to the USA (about 6 times per year) while we were living in Florida. Since the divorce she has now managed to get a US passport. I do not know how but I can prove in black and white that she has not lived in the USA since 1999 and has fraudulently obtained any USA citizenship or passport How can I take action about this. She is trying to move a child support action against me from the Czech Republic to the USA where she thinks that it would be much worse for me. I am 59 years old and she is 41. I have never had a regular job in my entire life always he eternal entrepreneur. I can not go home since the children are here in Prague so it looks like I will live the rest of my life here... at least until my daughter who is only 7 is out of school.
lawanwadee
Jul 16, 2010, 04:15 PM
I am sorry with your situation but here's the deal:
1. If you want to report immigration fraud, you must do this on the first year of your marriage, NOT two years after divorce.
2. As a green card holder, as long as she maintains here status by being in US for at least six months a year, she is OK. I doubt that she's already become naturalized which in that case, she can live anywhere in the world. She's eligible for naturalization after third year of marriage.
3. Family laws are pretty much the same in most countries. All assets gained after marriage are considered marital property and to be split 50/50 at the divorce.
4. Regarding the business, I don't have enough info... but it sounds suspicious. It could be either you have signed in an agreement, or you got screwed by your own lawyer, if you had one.
This is not immigration fraud... period.
mbiv2000
Jul 18, 2010, 09:28 AM
You don't understand! There was no immigration fraud the first year of the marriage. We were married for 13 years. We lived in the Czech Republic since 2000. She continued to keep her Green card and use it even though we did not live in the US. I constantly warned her not to but she did anyway. Once she was stopped in 2005 and almost got into trouble in LA but somehow the officers let her go. She absolutely did not reside in the USA at all but only traveled there 6 or 7 times a year for a week at a time to buy clothing. We divorced in 2008 but in 2007 I had reported to the ICE that she was using the card illegaly and had not lived in the USA for over 7 years. Apparently they did noting about it. She now claims to have a US passport which my oldest son confirmed. I would like to report to ICE that if she got a US Passport and naturalization she did it after we were divorced and did it by lying to the INS and providing false documentation. I would like to press charges which should be any citizen's right.