Perhaps there will be corresponding legislation to protect your bank account from your foreign bride and restrain her from sleeping with your friends?
Mail order brides are, pretty much, always a bad idea.
{Mail order brides are, pretty much, always a bad idea.]
We are not talking about brides. We are talking about "Katrina, meet Jim, Jim meet Katrina". We are talking about the government getting involved with basic human interactions....long before marriage becomes an issue.
And we needed a Nanny State government policy to protect us from this? Or them from us? What a bunch of hyped up, non-issue, paternailistic, anti-freedom, anti-male, bullsh*t.
Hey, the kind you meet here can be just as bad!
Bad Idea ? A friend of mine married a Russian woman. He was having trouble FINDING a nice Jewish girl: the ones he was meeting and/or dating just weren't working out. Out of sheer desperation he tried one of the "mail-order bride" outfits.
After 6 months, he found Irina: 2 months later, he went over to St. Petersburg to meet her. They were married 8 months later. That was 6 years ago.
I have no idea if Irina was a typical "mail order bride". But, she's a real sweetheart, utterly devoted to her new husband (she's a widow, her first husband was killed fighting Chechens, the guy was Speznaz. . . ). She's drop-dead gorgeous, a fantastic cook, and smart as a whip: she also speaks more languages than I do (I speak 3 other than English: he speaks English, Hebrew, and French, and has picked up Russian: SHE is fluent in English, German, French, and Japanese, plus some Hebrew and Arabic). They're both observant Jews (Conservative). . . and their little boy is 4, and they're expecting another in a few months.
I'd say he hit the jackpot.
BTW, parties at their place are rather interesting. Her cousin is apparentely a junior Military attache at the Russian Embassy, and also the guy who introduced her to her late husband. It's interesting to swap war stories with a Speznaz officer. . .all three of us have fought Muslims: him in Chechnya, and Abe and I during Desert Storm. . .
I have a theory that politicians saw the enormous amount of money in businesses that introduce prospective husbands and wives. Then the politicians used a few bad examples of knuckleheads to create legislation which I'm sure involves fees to the US government.
It does cost money to file this paper, correct?
I'm married to a wonderful Catholic American girl FWIW.
LOL, but I know of a case where an acquaintence of mine met a woman while he was working in St Petersburg. He paid the whole freight for her to come to the USA. She moved in with him. His neighbor was out of work. Within a couple of weeks the neighbor was bopping the Russian woman on a daily basis while my acquaintence was at work, after a couple of months of this she moved in with the neighbor. I don't know if he got a refund on his expenses from the woman or the neighbor, but I doubt it.
"Mail order brides are almost always a bad idea".
Maybe, but if you know the person, the family, the culture and it is not through any of the agencies, is it then a bad idea...?
Everyone, please respond. I am thinking about contacting a couple top quality family friends to help me find a mate abroad. They are in Cambodia & Vietnam.
I may do this soon as I cannot find a good quality Woman here and am sick of the ongoing disappointments and loneliness............