Haven't been in this forum for 10 yrs. I just wanted to let everyone know that sometimes it works. I've been happily married to a girl from Moldova for almost 10 yrs now. Met her on this sight ( Fiance.com ) We have 2 girls that are 6 and 8 yrs old now and in August we will celebrate our 10th anniversary. I started out writing to 5 girls here and after 6 months I decided on which one I wanted to meet. Zhenia was the girl I picked. She taught English at a university in Chisinau. She also tutored at nights and sold Mary Kay products also. She wasn't hurting for money and owned her own flat. She said that she just wanted a good man. We wrote back and forth for about 6 months before I got the guts to go see her. ( Never was on a plane before ). Long story short, it was the best time of my life. I met many of her friends who were also signed up at the local dating agency. They all seemed to be genuine in their search for a decent man. Their biggest complaint was that no man would make the trip to see them or if they did, the man wasn't serious enough about a relationship and was only there for the sex. Stayed with her for about 10 days and reluctantly had to come home. Anyhow, I took plenty of pictures with Zhenia and I at various landmarks in the city and kept my plane ticket stubs because that was what was needed by the US government to bring her over on a Fiance visa. Back then about a 4 month process and a thousand dollars in various fees. When she was approved, I sent her the money for a plane ticket and she came the next week. On a fiancée visa, you have 90 days to marry them or send them home if you don't marry. I waited something like 88 days and got married. We have been together ever since. She is 12 yrs my junior but we seem like the same age. At least the way I look at it. Not sure on the process now and can only tell you the way it was 10 yrs ago. Back then Fiance.com was $19.95 a month and unlimited letters to an unlimited amount of women. Zhenia is by far the best woman I have ever known and puts family first before anything else. As far as getting scammed, just don't send them money and remember that you MUST see them first. At least it was that way 10 yrs ago. Another little trick I did was to send her flowers from a local florist there who also emailed me a picture of her getting them. Yes, it matched the same girl whose picture I was writing to at Fiance.com. I know a lot of guys have had bad experiences with the Russian women but sometimes it works. Good Luck guys.
Dale E: this is wonderful and refreshing! congrats and thanks for reporting back!
As you said, sometimes it works. I know of a few examples that it didn't work, but it is not always the woman the one to blame.
Finding a woman over there is not hard, finding the right one for the long run is a coin toss IMO. Your age difference is very reasonable.
What do you consider to be the key factors of your success in being together and happy after 10 years?
Congratulations Dale E! Yes sometimes it works. You struck it lucky and got a genuine and sincere girl who was willing to leave her country even though she had a job and owned property.
If IMBRA changed the maximum fiancée visa petition filing to two per applicant, then you must have an impression that the two of you are "going to go through with it".
Limits Placed on How Many and How Often Fiancé(e) Visa Petitions May be Filed; Petitioners with Violent Criminal Records Barred from Serial Sponsorship. IMBRA limits a US petitioner’s sponsorship of K1 (fiancé(e)) visas to 2 total, with no less than 2 years between the filing of the last approved petition and the current petition. A petitioner may seek a discretionary waiver of these limits from DHS. However, DHS cannot ordinarily waive the limits if the U.S. petitioner has a record of violent criminal offenses. (Section 832(a)(1))
Based on the above statement, the two limitation is for those with a violent criminal past. It is to prevent "serial filing" by these criminal petitioners. It was intended to stop abuse of mail order brides by prospective husbands with criminal histories.
Limits Placed on How Many and How Often Fiancé(e) Visa Petitions May be Filed; Petitioners with Violent Criminal Records Barred from Serial Sponsorship. IMBRA limits a US petitioner’s sponsorship of K1 (fiancé(e)) visas to 2 total, with no less than 2 years between the filing of the last approved petition and the current petition. A petitioner may seek a discretionary waiver of these limits from DHS. However, DHS cannot ordinarily waive the limits if the U.S. petitioner has a record of violent criminal offenses. (Section 832(a)(1))
the statutory limits for ALL US citizens is 2 with a 2 year waiting period. if you do not have a violent history then you may apply for a discretionary waiver.
according to the 2 main forums for immigration issues, no one has received a waiver at this point.
The IMBRA disclosures do not apply if you randomly meet or you acquire contact information through social media. IMBs are the only affected parties
"the statutory limits for ALL US citizens is 2 with a 2 year waiting period. if you do not have a violent history then you may apply for a discretionary waiver.
according to the 2 main forums for immigration issues, no one has received a waiver at this point."
Is it because noone has applied or the waiver is hard to get?
usa immigration should stop all muslims entering america and send the remaining muslims back to their lands.America was built on christian foundations Not the divisive aggressive creed of Islam
likely it is due to no one yet applying for a waiver yet as the law didnt take effect for several years due to court challenges and is barely 6 years in force.
there is not, in reality, any "serial" applicants for K-1 visas as alleged by the bill's authors/sponsors(radical feminazis) but more likely that they didnt like the foreign competition and saw an oppourtunity to capitalize of 2 widely reported casaes of which in the whole USA in a 10 year period prior to theses 2 murder cases there wasnt even 2 dozen reported cases of domestic violence incidents involving a K-1 immigrant compared to nearly 200,000 cases in the general population
This is because Islam which originated in the Arabian peninsula region, mostly had spread towards Asia and northern African regions, but lost their "foothold" in Europe with the fall of the Alhambra in Spain just before Columbus traveled to America. That "deprived" them of the access to the American continent.
Note that humans are not indigenous to the American continent (as well as Antarctica).
great to here your story, I too am happily married with children but my road to success was not as quick and easy as yours. I have to say perhaps you got lucky, but its nice to know people can get lucky and find happiness here through this site. Hope it inspires a few here to take the plunge. Maybe they will not be as lucky as you, but you cant find your happiness sitting at home.
Moya, that's old information. Today's archeologists now are quote certain europeans were in North America at least 10,000 years before the Asian land bridge formed, allowing Asians to cross into north america.
the mastodon relic found near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay turned out to be 22,000 years old, suggesting that the blade was just as ancient.
Whoever fashioned that blade was not supposed to be here.
Its makers probably paddled from Europe and arrived in America thousands of years ahead of the western migration, making them the first Americans, argues Smithsonian Institution anthropologist Dennis Stanford.
“I think it’s feasible,” said Tom Dillehay, a prominent archaeologist at Vanderbilt University. “The evidence is building up, and it certainly warrants discussion.”
At the height of the last ice age, Stanford says, mysterious Stone Age European people known as the Solutreans paddled along an ice cap jutting into the North Atlantic. They lived like Inuits, harvesting seals and seabirds.
The Solutreans eventually spread across North America, Stanford says, hauling their distinctive blades with them and giving birth to the later Clovis culture, which emerged some 13,000 years ago.
Stanford and Bruce Bradley, an archaeologist at England’s University of Exeter, lay out a detailed case — bolstered by the curious blade and other stone tools recently found in the mid-Atlantic — in a new book, “Across Atlantic Ice.”
“I drank the Solutrean Kool-Aid,” said Steve Black, an archaeologist at Texas State University in San Marcos. “I had been very dubious. It’s something a lot of [archaeologists] have dismissed out of hand. But I came away from the book feeling like it’s an extremely credible idea that needs to be taken seriously.”