I have enclosed a as much as I have at this time from your list of things that you need to process my wife's 601 waiver. I am still waiting for a few things like a copy of the title for my house.

I realize that I need to prove that I, and my daughter, would experience extreme hardship if Olga is removed. Here are some of the thoughts that I have that may help the immigration court to see that such a hardship would be extreme to me:

• I would be separated from my wife.
• My career, 25 years in the field of computers, is not that developed in the Ukraine, thus it would be extremely difficult for me to obtain work in my profession.
• If I move to the Ukraine to be with my wife I would be separated from my ten year old daughter from a previous marriage as I do not have legal custody of her and her mother would never allow my daughter to travel to the Ukraine. Also note that my father had left me when I was ten years old, not to be found again for 18 years, and I promised myself that I would never desert my daughter.
• I do not speak Russian
• I own a 4 bedroom house, for which I paid handsomely at the height of the housing market, and would lose a lot of money being forced to sell it.
• The average salary in the Ukraine is around 150 US$/month. Even if I would manage to find a job at say $200/month there I would be nowhere need the ~$1000/month I am required to pay as child support.
• If I move to the Ukraine I would also have the additional burden of getting adequate medical and psychiatric help for Olga as her problems would persist.
  
• I fear for my wife's safety should she be removed and I only travel to Ukraine when I can to visit her. She has been suicidal in the past (see Kaiser records) and she lacks adequate support from her family (also in the Kaiser records). 
• If separated from my wife I know that I would again experience severe mental depression. While my wife was in jail and facing possible deportation and INS detainment I had attended a crisis group at Kaiser as well as went on Prosaic and sought the help of mental health professionals.
  

Sincerely


Andrew DeFaria