[and are going to ask an international intermediary agency to do it for you, you can be asked to prove that you're intentions are not malicious.]
A good agency should screen its clients and the best do run a quick check on the sexual offenders database.
But you cannot legislate this. Are you saying that you can? And if so, why not for American men on American dating sites as well?
You clearly have no idea the fury you would be engendering in the majority of single males by saying yes to this.
The "law" wouldn't be so bad if the agencies were just supposed to get the males to fill out the voluntary, honor-system form. But the unnecessary and wasteful sending of forms that have no information to women who often have no email address...will destroy the industry...which is what the INTENT of the law was.
You have to understand the intent of Democrat Senator Maria Cantwell. She HATES the idea of American men marrying foreign women and really hates the idea of age differences. This is the feminist agenda slapping laws down on males so the males live within the confines that the feminists demand. You have to understand just how wrong that is. American males didn't give women the vote in order to have the women take their basic rights as males away.
This law got snuck past single males during the Christmas Holiday Season. We got blind-sided by this. Bush is not up for reeleection. Democrat Maria Cantwell is up for reelection. But the courts are what we can hope for now, thank God for the courts. In a two party system, it would be impossible for anyone to fight for rights in the middle of a war otherwise.
Firstly the law only applies to agencies run in America.
Two yes I think it can be legislated and apparently has been. American dating sites do not require immigration or visas. Still they do come under interstate commerce and are fully regulatable by the federal government and should be regulated.
Only 5% of K-1 Visa holders remain in the united states after 1 year. That's enough to know that there's an abundance of uninformed women entering this country under false pretenses, and pretences which could be used to cover terrorism.
It is fair, and useful for foreign women to know that a man acting under the pretense of marrying her is who he says he is, is not currently married, and is not currently paying for several children and marriges gone wrong.
I have no sympathy for fat bald 50+ year olds who've failed at 5 marriages, been convicted of sex crimes, and decide to seduce a foreigner into being their sex toy in their trailer. I have less still for folks like that who are hiding that fact from the person they intend to marry.