Internet Marriage Agencies Give Various Ways to Meet an Eastern Bride

The boom of the dating agency after 1990 led to the great popularity of Hot Russian girls in western countries. These agencies helped with correspondence and letter translating. Such married are quite risky as a bride does not know the language and the country is alien for her compared to her native one. As for the groom he is also afraid that she just used him to get access to better life conditions, money and citizenship.

The tendency has become widely spread in the USA and more and more men are willing to find an eastern wife. Usually they get married in her native country or in the western country being there on a fiancé visa. There are more than 600 agencies as the demand for them is huge and it is quite easy to find your soul mate bit it will not be a cheap process. Some of the agencies help men to find their halves on the basis of “match making”.

Dating agencies have some conditions for the ladies singing up. The women are checked for any criminal background, their passports are checked weather they are married or not and if they were married then the divorce certificate would be demanded. Most importantly, they must be at least 18 years old. Different agencies have different services to offer some send pictures of the ladies by the post. Men are charged for the address of the ladies and for additional services such as letter translations, video chats, phone conversations. Prices for providing addresses of prospective brides range from $10 to $15. Many agencies provide a catalog for a fee of $120. It is estimated that 50,000 to 60,000 catalogs are sold annually. Then men can correspond or call the ladies of their choice in order to learn more about them. The groom may also start corresponding with a lady having bought her address outside an agency. If the bride speaks no English then services of an agency are desirable.

The next step of the process is for the groom to meet future brides. A majority of agencies offer special tours of Russia for around $3000 -$5000. This could include a round-trip fare and a staying at a hotel along with interviews with the prospective brides (price of the interpreter’s services are included). Men have their own interpreter to ease his search. Some agencies even offer personal tours for one person where a groom can meet only one bride the one he has chosen out of a catalog.

Although it may sound easy it is a difficult task for both. Not only cultural difficulties are a very huge problem. A lady may have children from her previous marriage. She is alone in a foreign country without her close relatives. A groom is lucky to have a full family but a bundle of problems to go with it.

Such marriages are widely spread in the US. Many social organizations study these cross-cultural marriages to evaluate the success of the concept.