Men Seeking Foriegn Brides Must Report Backgrounds
Men seeding foreign brides are now having to comply with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (IMBRA) which went into effect in March 2006. IMBRA is an effort to to protect women from potential abuse from American men who look for foreign wives on the Internet. IMBRA requires that men provide the government and dating agencies with information about criminal records and marital history before bringing a woman into this country. Figures given in an article from the New York Times seem to support the concern: During fiscal year 2006, 9,500 woman applied for permanent residence in the U.S. under the Violence Against Women Act, as opposed to less than 2,500 in 1998. At the same time, the increase of women entering the U.S. to marry has skyrocketed: 37,500 in fiscal 2006, a 50% increase from 2002, and a fourfold increase since 9,500 in 1998. This would translate into roughly 25% of foreign women in 1998 and 2006 who left American men because of potential abuse.
From Your Romance Coach, Kathryn Lord
My ex boyfiend, who beat me to a pulp and like a fool I did not report it because he is my bosses best friend. He just went to a foriegn country, Dominican Republic and married and is now trying to bring in his new foriegn bride on a K3. I know I am not the only women he has hurt physically. I know he will hurt her also and she will have no choice because she will be deported the first two years. He was jailed once before for beating a man and putting him in the hospital.
Posted by D Kaiser on 11/30 at 03:52 PM