Russian Bride - International Bride

Statistics provided by the Immigration and Naturalization Service show that there have been over 800,000 immigrants per year, of whom about 18% enter as spouses of U.S. citizens. In any case, the four to six thousand international mail order brides who immigrate through international correspondence agencies represent less than 6 percent of the new citizens. The majority of the russia mail order brides who gain permanent residence alien status through marriage do so through more traditional means, such as by meeting their international wife at work or in school or through marriage to U.S. servicemen stationed overseas. Both U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens may petition for their spouses. While a international bride and minor children of citizens may enter without long waits once the paperwork is approved, entry for spouses and minor children of permanent resident aliens is regulated by annual ceilings. There is no question that many of the russian bride who advertise for U.S. husbands are far more interested in gaining permanent residence alien status than in gaining a good marriage. What portion of the russia bride intend to use marriage to gain permanent residence alien status cannot be ascertained, of course, since we cannot know what is in the woman's mind, but a reading of the self descriptions they offer and their willingness to marry men of advanced age and dubious character attests to this intention. The true character of the men is well expressed in those who have used the russian wife route to find a mate have control in mind rather than a loving and enduring relationship. The most common times for a russia wife to leave the marriage, are immediately, three months after marriage receipt of the green card, and two years after marriage receipt of nonconditional permanent residence. There are reports of a different kind of fraud namely, one in which women are recruited into prostitution through the international match making services. This new slave trade has not, however, to the author's knowledge, occurred in the U.S., although it is a well documented trade involving russian mail order brides imported into Israel