Meet Katherine
Since we met Katherine in 2019, Ascend Justice has advocated for her rights and secured safety in an environment where she can succeed. Katherine needed assistance well beyond the divorce from her abusive husband. She worked with us to successfully file an I-751 which was used to remove conditions from her residency […]
Christina came to the US from Mexico when she was 45 in search of a better life. She met George and after dating for ten years, they got married. Once they were married, things between Christina and George changed – he would harass and belittle Christina, she would wake up to him hitting her because […]
We met Susana in 2011 after the father of her children held a gun to her head. Homeless and unemployed, she reconciled with him, but he kept her locked in the house with her children for months, not allowing them to leave. In 2015 she came back for help. One of our family law attorneys […]
Bridget, a 27-year-old immigrant from Poland sought legal help after her husband attacked her so brutally that she had to go to the hospital. After we helped Bridget stabilize her situation with an Order of Protection, our immigration attorneys represented her in her VAWA application, and helped her secure employment authorization documents. Bridget also […]
Monica,
an only child, had immigrated from Mexico when she was 18. At that time she immigrated, she was already
married to her husband Samuel, who was 30. Monica’s husband raped, hit and
insulted her frequently and often threatened to kill her and kill himself. When Monica left Samuel, he briefly moved
back to Mexico, but returned and […]
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