Dear USCONGUZ: I am an U.S. citizen and I was born in Hong Kong. I lived in Chicago since I was four years old. I am concern about how the U.S. General Consulate will judge a mentally ill petitioner's case. How does the U.S. General Consulate find out about a mentally ill petitioner if they can communicate with a Chinese applicant? How does the U.S. General Consulate protect an U.S. mentally ill citizen to not be cheated and used by a Chinese applicant? Can the U.S. General Consulate find out if the petitioner applied for medical financial help from the U.S. government? This is a real story that happened to my cousin as follows: My cousin has mental illness since he lost his computer job in 2000. He applied for medical financial help from then on. After that, my cousin's parents tried to introduce him to a woman from Taishan, China. They hope my cousin would marry. In early 2002, my cousin married the Taishan woman in Taishan, China. My cousin's parents helped him to finish all the CR1 immigation application work and co-sponsored his wife. During that time, they both were waiting for the visa. My cousin's parents called the Taishan wife every two or three days, but they never allowed my cousin to talk to his wife for a long period of time. Every time they just allowed my cousin to say Hello and Good bye. My cousin's parents talked to the wife in Taishanese. So no one knows their telephone bill was actually a conversation between my cousin's parents and his Taishan wife. They have some letters but they were written by my cousin's parents. They chatted online but every time my cousin was just sitting in front of the computer with his parents talking to the wife for about 15 minutes, and then they stopped just to have some chat records as evidence. In late 2003, my cousin and his parents were very happy because the Taishan wife got the visa and came to the U.S.A. Two months later, the bad news came. The Taishan wife disappeared suddenly. One month later, her lawyer sent a lawsuit letter to my cousin and ask for a divorced lawsuit to his parents stating that she was cheated by her husband's parents to marry a mentally ill person and suited for a lot of money from the parents. From then on, I have never seen my cousin again. My parents said he tried to commit suicide and was hospitalized after that time. His parents are in their sixties and they are very sad about their son now. They have sold the house to pay for the Taishan woman's monthly alimony. I suggest that mentally ill people in the U.S.A. not to have any long distance relationship with any Chinese women in China. As an analyst, I do not think mentally ill people can make the right decisions on their own and can communicate well with people long distance. Once their wife or fiancee comes to the U.S.A. and finds out that he has mental illness and has no ability to work to support the family, they will divorce their husband and make their life worse than before coming to the U.S.A. The women made the mentally ill petitioners as the legal bridge to come to the U.S.A. I wish these kinds of sad stories would not happen to any U.S. family again. The U.S. General Consulate should correct such kind of problems and try to protect the U.S. mentally ill petitioner to not be cheated by some Chinese applicants. Thank you, Best regards from Chicago.
