Marry a foreigner: 10 interesting facts

The practice of search for the second half abroad is not new: women looking for a husband in another country a few centuries ago. In the XVIII and XIV centuries, residents of European countries married to an American, going with her husband to live in the United States. However, not always these stories end in marriage happy.

10. Russia - a country bride

Most foreigners think that Russian bride - the most desperate: women are willing to literally do anything to marry a citizen of another country (preferably - American) and to leave the impoverished Russia, starting a new life. In fact, Russian women are driven not so much by a desire to arrange their own financial well-being, how to find, finally, personal happiness - because in Russia, where traditional culture prescribes compulsory marriages for every ten women account for only eight men. That is why many women who could not find the chosen one in Russia, looking for a husband abroad.

9. Dangerous Liaisons

Marrying a foreigner Marry foreigners: on the side of love   - Quite a risky step. Most recently, the United States is literally one after another scandal rocked the four - man-Americans were charged with murder (sometimes very violent) of their foreign wives. Tragically ended the story of Anastasia King, a native of Kyrgyzstan, brutally murdered her own husband-American in December 2000. 18-year-old Anastasia received an email from a 38-year resident of Seattle Indl King, discovered the photo of a girl in one of the dating sites. Soon the American went to Russia, having become acquainted with the family of Anastasia and made her an offer. However, only two years later Indl decided to get rid of his wife and not to suffer losses as a result of the impressive divorce hired henchman, with whom strangled the girl. Both men were soon caught and charged with murder.

However, there are situations and the opposite when a woman married to an American, was decided on the murder of her husband. That is why before you decide to seek the chosen one abroad, you must once again carefully consider and weigh all the consequences of this step.

8. Statistics of divorces

Interestingly, despite the apparent riskiness of intermarriage, the number of marriages ending in divorce, much less. According to statistics from the US Immigration Service, about 80% of marriages between people of different countries lasts for years. Every year in the US is from 4 to 6 thousand such marriages.

7. American Frontier

Although women now marry foreigners are much more likely than men to marry foreign women, in the US in the middle of XVIII century it was distributed last case. Men from the East went to the American West in search of gold, new, unexplored land, opportunities to get rich quickly. Most adventurers somehow achieve success, since, sooner or later, to yearn for the sorority - because in those days, few women dared to embark on a journey through uncharted lands of America. Because of this, the Americans had to resort to a very interesting way to find brides - some wrote letters to the churches contributed matrimonial acquaintances, and others published in newspapers.

6. How to get acquainted

In today's market of marriage services are functioning, at least two types of agencies involved in international marriages. Agencies of the first type sell contact information of women clients and insist on communicating before meeting potential future spouses. Agencies of the second type arrange special group tours for male clients in other countries - thanks to the men on tours specially organized events agency can not meet with a single, and with many different women. In the US, for a man could get acquainted with a foreigner through a marriage agency, it must first provide more than details about themselves - including information on convictions and mental health.

5. original education

Johns Hopkins University of Washington offers its students more than an unusual course on the problems of international marriages and, in particular, women from the Philippines - culture and gender issues in Southeast Asia.

4. unfriendly attitude

While in the United States with international marriages took a course at the university in Australia with such marriages choose to fight. Since 2003, the country launched a program of the then Australian Prime Minister John Howard, aimed at restricting illegal immigration. The government of Australia, however, there is every reason to discourage international marriage after the scandal with Russian illegally arrived in the country to explore the Australian and within a few years, forced to endure the situation sex slave.

3. The ban on marriage

Philippine authorities have gone so far as to completely ban international marriages between Filipino women and foreigners. In 1990, the country enacted a law according to which citizens of other countries have no right to enter into marriage with the natives of the Philippines. The reason for the introduction of the law has led to numerous stories in the local media about violence on the part of foreign spouses, who suffer Filipino women.

2. More to come

The conclusion of international marriages - more than the industry profitable. For example, men in Taiwan, decided to marry foreign women spend an average of 10 thousand dollars for the organization dating with women from China and South-East Asia, mainly in Vietnam. However, only 500-1000 dollars of this amount goes to the bride's family. The rest of the sum is obtained intermediaries contributed to dating couples.

1. Unfair Marketing

November 18, 2004 a native of Ukraine Natalia Fox on the decision of the federal court in Baltimore, Maryland, 433, 5 thousand dollars in compensation for damage caused to her marriage agency Encounters International and its owner, Russian emigrant Natalya Spivak .  Spivak contributed to the marriage Natalia Fox and American, behind which there were several cases of ill-treatment of women and who, after marrying a Ukrainian woman, beat her repeatedly over the life together .  Baltimore Court ruled that the owner of the agency Encounters International was guilty of fraud, breach of the principles of Service, defaulting and defamation .  Natalya Spivak has notified Fox about the laws that allow foreign women to file for divorce without fear of automatic deportation and systematically concealed from the Ukrainian her legitimate rights .  In addition, the owner of the agency to clients were presented by different history of marriage Natalia Fox as extremely successful, in fact Ukrainian marriage turned a tragedy .

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