An Australian woman claims her ex-husband left her after being granted an Australian partner visa.
Isabelle Glastonbury, 31, said she met the unidentified Texan in Dallas in 2015 and got engaged a year later. In 2018 they moved to Australia together.
They cemented their connection during a dream wedding in Palm Beach for an amount of $55,000 that the young woman’s family would have supported.
However, her husband disappeared in January 2021 after obtaining his visa at the expense of Isabelle’s parents, who reportedly paid him $13,000 for it.
“I came home and 90% of his stuff was gone,” Isabelle told the Chron.
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Her husband’s immigration accounts were suddenly blocked, along with his phone number.
She was no longer able to contact her husband.
Then the young woman learned that her credit cards had been completely emptied.
“He’s completely gone: all of our mutual friends, the witness to our wedding and his own family, no one knew where he was,” she said.
As she thought about it, she realized that he had “become distant and started disappearing at night.”
Photo by Instagram/Isabelle Glastonbury
“I think we got married and he got tired and too scared to say anything to my face but he still wanted to live in Australia,” he said.
Photo by Instagram/Isabelle Glastonbury
She added that a friend recently informed her that her ex-husband had remarried “almost a year after we officially divorced.”
Ms Glastonbury has since moved on with her high school boyfriend Max, with whom she has a three-month-old son, Mason.
Photo by Instagram/Isabelle Glastonbury