Analysis of many of the provisions that were passed as part of the Violence Against Women Acts of 1994, 2000, 2005 and 2013 that as of January 2015 had still not been implemented by either the Immigration and Naturalization Service or the Department of Homeland Security. Since this article focused mostly on U visas and VAWA self-petitions, it omits a discussion of the fact that the pre-1994 battered spouse waiver regulations that were overruled by VAWA 1994’s any credible evidence rules have not been amended to removed the overruled provisions for almost three decades as of 2021.