someone, please help. =[

Hi, I'm new here.

I have tried posting this in other places, but no one seems to be willing to help me. I am running out of options. ):

All these posts on DACA make me cry. I hear, and read, many people's success stories and get very upset because it feels like that road will be impossible for me. ]'= I mean, don't get me wrong, I am very happy for all of you. Truly happy. But, I'm afraid this won't happen for me. )': I am an almost twenty-three-year-old female who lives with her former boyfriend, in a kind-of oppressive situation, with no independence, and no life. I don't know what to do. ): I lived here all my life since i was two, so this country is all I know. It's my home. I want, and need, a job and have wanted one since I was about fourteen, but I can't do my DACA paperwork without financial help (which many people have promised to help me out with but bail last minute), and without proof that I have lived here in the past five years. ]'= If anyone could please let me know how to get proof, or what I can do in that regard, I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you for reading this, and I apologize for sounding so depressing. I just.. need to move out of where I am currently living and get my life in order.

I will answer any and all questions anyone might have, as long as they don't give me away. Sorry. =/

You can show them your high-school transcript, report cards, utility bills, medical bills, medical appointments, basically anything that has your name in it. If you don't have much of that you need to send affidavits to cover some gaps in your timeline. You should take advantage of this opportunity as soon as possible and definitely move away from your abusive relationship.
Good luck to you.

Basically, what was said above. You need to gather as much evidence as you can. If you are in a domestic violence situation then you need to find a way out by reporting it to the police or finding an organization that can help you out. A womens shelter or a safe space.

The only money you need is the application fee. You can do the forms on your own. There are many examples online and there are also many non profits that can help you. You can look at old postings for application examples or you can post questions about each form in the forum. You can fundraise in many ways. Sell food-bake sales, candy, crowdfunding online, asking your local church for assistance. Raffle something...sell art..clean houses, ask friends and family for cans to recycle, babysitt, ebay sales...get creative...just don't rob a bank.

Well, for starters you could post what you actually have, its not like you heard of DACA and haven't started gathering what you currently have. Man that would be super sad on your part if you haven't already what you have. But thankfully you already have started, so just see if you meet the requirements and keep looking from there. So if you are 23, the last evidence you have is from were you 18, so I take it high school transcripts is what you have. What about bank statements, or you didn't bother to make an bank account either? Any online payments or someone always paid for you... hmmm facebook posts? not even that? PayPal? Receipts you kept? Anything at this point that has your name, address and date?

A for financial I'm sure many of us here would contribute, keep us informed as to how we can help.

The last solid proof I have is from high school. I graduated when I was seventeen, in 2009, and didn't turn eighteen until five months later.
Since then, I only have the tiniest bit of proof, and that would be about four bus tickets from LA to Vegas, from when I would visit my [now former] boyfriend. He paid for the tickets, because I had absolutely no money, but at least they say my name.
My report cards stayed with my mom, but I think she threw them out once I was out of school and out of her house.

As for utility bills, or bills of any kind, my [former] boyfriend had everything under his name and said that he couldn't put mine on there because I have no SSN (and that that's how utility companies alert credit companies whether or not you are good or bad on credit).
I didn't go to the doctor's office for anything (other than eye care) because it was rather expensive without insurance. The little bit of proof I did have for that eye doctor's appointment and such, along with other things, was thrown away in a fit of rage he had last year.
I am really thinking about using the affidavits thing, but I do fear they can't be used to cover huge gaps. Also, I don't have any proof for June 15, 2012, and I have read that that is an absolute MUST, for that exact date. I have lived with him for the past five years, and in that time he really didn't let me do anything. I wanted to go to a low-cost community college straight out of highschool but he didn't want me to meet new people because he felt I would leave him for them or something. So I didn't. =/
As soon as DACA came out, I very much wanted to start the process but according to him "you shouldn't because they're just gathering a list of you all so that they know whom to boot out of the country as soon as it's over; it's not safe. I'll help you become a citizen myself." But he didn't. =/
I know, I did wrong by staying by his side despite all of that, and more, but I was truly smitten and blinded by it that I felt it would be worth it in the end. It isn't and now I don't know what to do.

You see, he's not abusive per se. Not in the physical way, at least. I'd say it's more emotional and oppressing. He's not a bad guy, but he has told me he doesn't care about me anymore. I guess the only reason he keeps me around now is because he got used to having me around, I cook and clean for him.

I have wanted to try selling things, art in particular, but once again, money issues won't allow it. I need a small fund to get my supplies, for example, and from there move on and do my best to go for it.
I used to babysit, but the first people I babysat for pretty much took advantage of me. They would pay me $10 every two weeks, for babysitting their daughter 8 hours a day, 4-5 days a week. It wasn't enough for the bus, and they lived far. The only reason I still went was because they desperately needed a sitter. =/
I then babysat another person's kids, four of them between the ages of two and seven. The pay was ok, but they were very, very disobedient kids. I could not have it on my conscience if they did something terrible, especially if they hurt themselves. When I would pick them up from school, one would throw a tantrum as we were walking, and another would run out in the middle of the street-- he almost got hit by a big truck. It terrified me so I told their mom later that night when she got home. She said she would talk to them and that by the next day they would behave. Well, needless to say, they didn't and once again, same thing happened.

I have tried going online, looking for any jobs that might pay even a little, but Craigslist has so many shady-looking ads.

All of my family is in Cali, and I'm in Nevada. My mom currently cannot afford to take me in, no matter how much she wants to and I need her to. She has two jobs that don't have a steady schedule. She is paying for my two youngest sisters' college tuitions with whatever money she makes, plus rent (she lives in a garage-turned-home), and she is also still paying off her appendix surgery from three years ago.
I do have my sister who's right after me, and she successfully did her DACA almost completely on her own. The biggest thing that helped her, proof-wise, was that she had many medical statements and such (she has a daughter). Financially, she also babysat, but people don't easily take advantage of her like they do me. Anyway, I have asked her, and she can't take me in. She also works two jobs, goes to school for nursing, and shares a garage-turned home with someone else while taking care of her daughter. She has no room for me either.

Please believe me, if I had any other choice than to ask complete strangers on the internet for help, I would take it and get everything done, but I don't.

I don't go out on my own, and that is mainly because of the put-downs I get as a result from my, um, friend. He'll call me things I'm not, accuse me of going to see a "new boyfriend" when that is definitely not the case (not something I am interested in right now), and threatens to kick me out if I have found someone new. If I had someplace to go, I really wouldn't care what he thought, but I do because I don't.

Unfortunately, I did not make a bank account. I heard that Wells Fargo was the only place that accepts foreign ID cards, but you need money to keep the account active, or at least that's what he said. And whatever bit of money I did make while babysitting for the second person, went to him. Not directly, but because he would be so broke and he/we needed it for food, and bills.
I had a Facebook account once. I logged in daily, checked into many places almost every day... but.. in that aforementioned fit of rage, he permanently deleted my account. He didn't have my password, but he found a way to get in on his own.
Without a bank account, I had no debit card. Without debit, I had no PayPal. I don't have any receipts of any kind, just the four or so from my trips to and from Las Vegas when I was still just visiting, back in January and February of 2010, that's it.

This is why I am very desperate and feel I have almost no hope left. And, unfortunately, come the 1st of March, I might end up on the street. Our lease at these apartments ends then, but he won't be renewing, and he'll be moving back in with his parents, but because we're broken up, I can't go with him. I have mentioned the reasons why I cannot move in with my own mom or sister either.
I really must get out of here.
I don't want to make it seem like it's all his fault (although that's probably inevitable with everything I have mentioned), because it was my fault too for letting it get this far.
Anyway, besides affidavits for proof, I don't know what else to use. I didn't make many, if at all, friends while in NV (because of not being allowed to do anything), and all the friends I had in Cali are gone now (because he didn't like them so I had to lose contact with them. Not to mention all their contact info was on FB. =/)
My two major problems: lack of proof, and no financial help. ):
I truly appreciate all of your suggestions, but like everywhere else I've seen, I can't do anything without the proof. ): I am afraid. ):

You NEED to leave this person. He wants you under his control and that might have ruined DACA for you

Your heart is way too big. You're going to have a much more terrible time ahead in life if you don't start putting yourself in front of the line every once in a while.

There are ways of finding work out there. But you need to start by leaving this person first. Create another FB account, reconnect with friends, and ask if you can maybe stay with one of them temporarily.

it's also possible to restore your old facebook account if you used the same email you used before for your original account, also beware though as that punk may have access to that email and as such you should change your passwords and activate 2 step verification if possible.

I was afraid to get that confirmed, that DACA might have been ruined for me. ): I guess when I created this account, I hoped for the slightest glimmer of hope. I am now unsure of what to do in regards to that. Where do I go from here?

I just don't think it's very fair. I never broke any rules, I was always the good kid in class, teacher's pet, had a lot of friends growing up and throughout highschool. I never got into any serious trouble. I was more obedient of my mom's rules than my sisters were. I wasn't an angel, but i wasn't a naughty kid either. My sisters broke my mom's rules a lot, whereas I was always the one who tried to reason with them and reel them back in. They are all younger than me and they all have character, and busy lives. They are all going to school and have jobs. As for me? I ended up the wimp of us all and that has gotten me nowhere. In fact, it's sending my life through a downward spiral. ):

I have tried putting myself in front of the line before, but it didn't quite work out. I guess the lack of experience has made it far too difficult for me to be happy with that choice, so I "double back" and correct my "selfishness".

In the past couple of days, I have contacted old friends, the ones whose emails I happened to be lucky enough to find in my old high school planner, but upon asking them if I could temporarily stay with them, they asked if I had a job, or any means to pay rent, to which I said "no, not yet." They said they would have no problem with me staying with them for a couple of months if I could get one before moving in, which I cannot get while living here. -sigh- There goes that J word again. It's a conundrum, and an awful one at that. ):
Other friends are far too skeptical to even agree to let me stay with them, regardless of whether or not I have a job, because of the fact that I was MIA for over a year.

I did try restoring it (my Facebook) using the same email address, but instead of getting my old account back, it created a brand-new account. I guess when they say "permanently deleted", they mean permanently.

I feel so hopeless. What's worse is, I am always the one reaching out to people; I love helping others. All my life, well, since fifth grade or so, I dreamt of being a psychologist, and as practice (whether emotional or financial-- with whatever little bit of money I have had over the years), I would never hesitate to help anyone. Now that I'm the one on the receiving end, none of the people I have ever helped can return the favor. So much for karma. ):