Article discusses the legislative history and implementation of the Battered Spouse Waiver, the problems with the regulations developed to implement the program, and the legislative solutions that were being developed in 1994 to address these problems. This includes a discussion of the creation of VAWA’s any credible evidence rules and the need for the VAWA self-petition. The article documents the legislative history of the Battered Spouse Waiver, the VAWA self-petition, VAWA’s any credible evidence rules and describes the need for what ultimately became VAWA’s confidentiality protections.