Recently, I reviewed many EB5 investor files. Each file represents a little personal story; SOF will tell financial success; personal docs will tell child-born, marriage, divorce, remarriage, or death of a family member.
Of the piles of paper reviewed, often times I was mostly stroked on many levels of how Chinese parents handle their children’s immigration future even after the parents are long-time divorced; often times under the situation where the un-custodial mother/father gets remarried and is now applying US immigration through EB5 with the new men/women.
100% of the situation is that the Child’s custody (if not under the EB5 beneficiary mother/father) will be transferred to the immigrating mother/father through either civil litigation or voluntarily abjuration of custody over that Child by the not-immigrating mother/father.
Regardless of how fierce the custody war over that child was when the parents were divorcing, unanimously, the child now “belongs to” that immigrating parent.
No objection WHATSOEVER from the other parent…
Many times I will see court papers stating such custody transfer without ANY condition and even the non-talking parents are now agreeing on times of visiting.
More often than not, I will see statement titled “no objection to XXX’s immigration with mother/father” ended with a sentence of “I will never regret give up custody …”
Disregard the legality of such statement under China/US laws, such statement and the language it contains often makes me feel unappeasable sadness. When facing their children’s future (immigration in this matter), the parents choose to clean up whatever in the way to pave a better path toward what they believed is better for the child….
As I was reviewing a similar file this morning, where the court paper for custody transference is dated March 10, 2012,
I can’t help but writing the above, dedicating to my client, and my parents.
