One of my best friends met a girl on-line from one of the "mail order bride" places. He went to Russia to meet her and her family a couple of times before they came to America to get married. It took months to get her visa.
They've been married about 8 years now, very happily, and have a beautiful daughter.
Certainly these situations can be very bad, but that's not the norm.
But this is typical of the government - a knee jerk response to isolated incidents that creates bureacracy and government meddling where it wasn't necessary.
Oh for goodness sake! This is ridiculous.
"Certainly these situations can be very bad, but that's not the norm."
Garbage, it's a modern day slave trade but pathetic men get laid and the slave traders get paid.