I HAVE tried several online dating services..You are right. Post your pic and wait (and wait and wait) for any replies. Sure, i chatted with manygirls, but it just never went further.
" I dont want to be a wife, I want to own the marriage' hehe
You Don't need fancy lawyers to "do it all for you" you can do it all for yourself and get her there just as fast, why pay anyone a huge sum to do something that wont get her there any faster !!!
From talking to friends from the USA who have trod the path you wish to follow, they ALL did it themselves rather than pay a lawyer to bleed them dry and get them no better results than they can get themselves.
You have found your lady, formed a relationship and are ready to make it more, please Dont be scammed by a lawyer now !!
Here here.........too many lawyers find the "visa" route very very lucrative.
Doing your homework first and reading the rules carefully is not as daunting as it seems.
There are many bent lawyers in the USA making bundles from "helping" men get their brides back to the US, when in fact the truth is, No-one can "gaurentee" anything and You have just as much chance of getting here there as anyone else does !!!
Im not sure if i have posted this remark yet, but here goes .....
"Waht do you call 500 lawyers up to hteir necks in quicksand ?
WoW, good info!!! This is the part that is really beginning to bother me because its just the last thing we both need to happen to us. I was considering hiring a lawyer but I really didn't want to..
Bottom line is I just don't want anything to screw all this up because I made a stupid error. That alone was making me seriously consider it.
Fastest way to get her to the USA Crash is the K1 or Fiance visa, if you marry her then try to bring her it can defiantly take up to a year.
Just stay away from the lawyers mate, there are enough of us here, and enough info in the net for you to do it all yourself, and spend the cash you have saved on a really wonderful wedding for you both, let the lawyers starve I say !!!!
You got that right!! I was going to get the K1 visa, she will get here quicker and then we have 90 days to decide what we want to do. I really dont want a lawyer involved, I just figured it would be 1 less thing for me to worry about. I know that if we do get married, when we go back to Russia to visit her dad Im going to marry her there too, Think thats a good idea?
My Russian X was her fathers only child, when we married we kept her surname and hyphenated it with mine, so that her family name wouldnt die, My idea, a loving caring gesture.
OK we seperated and divorced, but the idea was a good one I thought.
LoL, your too much. Same with my girl Tim, shes all her dad has and they are very close. The one thing that her dad really likes about me is that he and I have something in common. He raised his little girl to the woman she is now, and I too just like him is raising my daughter just the same as he did. She also really likes that very much about me and she said that from the beginning that how much she respects me for what I am doing.... Hope I'm not giving too much infor here!! I dont want her to catch me! lol
I ahve found I get great respect from the girls because for 16 years I raised another mans Son as my own, I met and married his Mum when he was 3.5 years old, and he has remained my Son since then, even though his Mum and I split and divorced when he was 11 he still calls me Dad and when his Mum got her divorce papers she asked Andrew what he wanted to do about his surname (he had taken mine by deed poll when we married so we all had the same one) He replied "I will keep Dad`s thanks"
For some reason this really impresses the Russian ladies, but to be honest its who I am, I love Andrew very much and when I took responsibility for him I upheld my part of it, I supported him financially until he was 18 even though his Mum remarried, I paid maintenance right up to his 18th birthday, my legal obligation had ended 5 years before that, but thats not how I work mate .
I am not at all suprised that you are respected for what you are doing, hell mate, I respect you for it and I hardly know you !!!
I know it cannot be easy for you and I dont think even I could do it alone.
He is 19 now by the way, and still refers to me as Dad to everyone !!!
His real father is local, and around, but for him Im Dad, the other one is just teh sperm donor as he didnt do anything he wasnt pushed or harranged to do for Andrew.
His Mum and I took him on holiday 5 times in as many years, his "father" has Never taken him anywhere, oh sure he says he will, but something always comes up to change the plans, and to make it worse his "father" has another kid by another woman who he is now married to and that kid has had everything handed to him on a plate !!!!
Come to think of it, Ive taken Andrew away twice since we divorced in 96, took him to Paris with a girl I was living with then, and I flew him out with me for my wedding in Uzbekistan last April too.
Thats really cool, I'm sure he looks up to you. My daughters mother had a son when we met, he was 2 at the time. I raised him for 3 years, and since that time she got married a few times. Funny thing is now hes 14, and whenever he calls I hear, "hey dad, how are ya?" Crazy world isnt it? Well I gotta put the little one to bed. By the way Tim, what time is it over there, you need to hit the sack yourself!
Time change is always the last weekend in March mate :o)) But there is talk of stopping doing it !! Another century old UK tradition that Chairman Blair is trying to destroy !!!!