Great story...but the benefits of marrying foreign women is not the issue here.
It is the right to be introduced by someone. It is the right to say hello.
This is basic. It is elemental.
Yet George Bush happily signed away that right for single males on January 6th. It comes into effect on March 6th.
I was replying to the guy who said we didn't NEED foreign brides.
I agree, the law is raping our rights. But then, Dubya won't protect our borders but WILL protect foreign women.
Figures. My disappointment in this administration is more than tangible: great war on Terror, but on the home front, two thumbs down: protect the borders and SHRINK THE EFFING FEDERAL GOVERNMENT!!!
You need to re-read it. It has nothing to do with saying hello or being introduced to a friend of your girlfriends.
While I think the law is a silly attempt to protect foreign mail-order brides, it doesn't have near the consequences as your reading into it.
You have a right to say hello. You can pick up the phone dial 011 7 XXXX XXXXXX and talk to any Russian woman you want.
If however you do balls to do that, 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.