How To Get a Mail-Order Bride
- May 14, 2008
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Rosemarie_Lennon
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Tired of looking for love in all the wrong places? Maybe the perfect woman is a mail-order bride. Just don’t ask for free shipping…
You Will Need
- Due diligence
- Common sense
Beware. There are many international marriage broker scams; don’t be a fool for love.
Step 1: Have a clean record
Have a clean record. The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, passed in 2005, requires mail-order bride agencies to disclose an American suitor’s marital history and criminal background to any potential brides.
Going outside an agency to find your foreign bride won’t let you subvert this law; men who apply for fiancée visas must disclose their marital and criminal history to the government.
Step 2: Find a reputable agency
Find a reputable agency—one that does not control contact between you and a potential bride beyond charging a small fee for the initial introduction.
Scams in Russia are particularly prevalent. Check www.agencyscams.com if you’re thinking of using a Russian dating agency.
Step 3: Pay attention to dates
Check out the “join date” and/or “last activity” marker on the women’s profiles. Many agencies don’t bother pulling photos of women who are no longer participating on the site, meaning you’ll be paying for email addresses of women who will never answer you.
Step 4: Double-check photos
If there is a particularly beautiful woman on one of the front pages, check a few matchmaking competitors. Many sites feature the same models as bait, with different names.
Don’t believe an agency that tells you that your pen pal’s account is about to be closed for non-payment of membership dues; the would-be brides join for free.
Step 5: Check out her visa
Check out any woman’s claim that she has—or can get—a visa. Do not send money for her visa unless you can confirm with an embassy that she really has one, or at least has applied for one. Visa scams are common.
Step 6: Don’t send money
Don’t fall for sob stories from women you’re corresponding with; if they ask for money, that’s usually a red flag that you’re being scammed.
Step 7: Book your own travel
If you decide to check out your foreign friend in person, book the trip on your own—not through the agency’s travel service, which usually offers inflated rates.
Learn some local phrases to really sweep her off her feet.
Step 8: Don’t expect a slave
Don’t buy into the myth that mail-order brides are more compliant than American women. These girls may be looking for a better life, but there’s a limit to what they’ll do to get it.
Step 9: Get real
Be realistic. If you’re a tubby 55-year-old video store clerk and a gorgeous 19-year-old university student professes to be madly in love with you—well… we don’t have to tell you what she’s really in love with.
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Comments (3)
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about 1 year ago by mettlfreek
With so many guys looking for love overseas now and so many horror stories of guys being scammed for money from either fake girls or fake dating agencies, it’s nice to know maybe there may be light at the end of the tunnel. There are thousands of serious minded beautiful Russian women looking for marriage on the internet, but many guys are put off with all the bad press and scamming reports.
To be honest the reason many guys are scammed is due to their own stupidity and being very niev, as long as you remember NO good Russian lady would ever dream of asking any guy to send you will have no problems meeting your dream Russian bride.
www.email2femail.com has been set up by a English guy who after allot of searching, heartache and falling for several scams finally found his love in Russia fell in love with mother Russia and moved to St Petersburg.
Unlike most other Russian Bride sites there are no fees for opening letters or sending letters, all members have direct access to all the Russian brides in the database, personal email address and phone numbers.
All contact is done direct by the member ,no third parties to deal with.There are thousands of Beautiful Russian brides on the site, Russia has a new economy and has long past the Soviet union days most girls have their own computers and do not need translators. So you have