has any1 done a search...IMBRA LAW + K-3? I DID!

[limah 1]

HEY ALL. I DONT REALLY KNOW WHAT I AM DOING OR SAYING LATELY. I FEEL LIKE A PING PONG BALL JUST BUMPING INTO THE WALLS AND NOT REALLY GOING ANYWHERE, AND EVERYWHERE AT THE SAME TIME. I WAS WONDERING WHO THE IMBRA LAW AFFECTS... PRETTY MUCH EVERYONE, IT LOOKS LIKE TO ME. MEN AMD WOMEN, K-1 AND K-3, ME, YOU, US, THEM.....

I DONT KNOW HOW TO POST A LINK HERE, BUT JUST DO A SEARH FOR IMBRA LAW + K-3 VISAS AND IT WILL TAKE YOU TO A PAGE WHERE YOU CAN FIND OUT A LOT ON THE TOPIC. NOT THAT MY VJ BUDDIES WEREN'T INFORMATIVE ENOUGH, I THINK YOU ALL 4 EVERTHING AND IT DOES HELP. HOPW DO WE GET SOME INFORMATION STR8 FROM THE HORSES MOUTH AROUNG HERE!??!! I MAILED MY I-130 ON THE 31ST, AND GOT THE RETURN RECEPIT IN THE MAIL. THEY RECEIVR=ED IT ON 6-2-06, WHICH MEANS TO ME, I'LL BE WAITING UNTIL AUGUST 25TH PER MY TIMELINE!!!

THERE ARE POLLS THERE FOR YOU TO VOICE YOUR OPINION, HOW HELPFUL IT WILL BE REMAINS TO BE SEEN.

1 THING THAT HAD MY BLOOD BOILING AT ABOUT 250 DEGREES, WAS THE PART I READ THIS MORNING THAT SAID MOST OF THE POLITICIANS THAT VOTED ON THIS LAW DONT EVEN REALLY UNDERSTAND WHAT IT IS THEY VOTED FOR (VIA VOICE VOTE!), THEY VOTED ON IT IN A HURRY ON DEC. 16-17, SO THEY COULD HURRY HOME TO BE WITH THEIR LOVED ONES FOR THE HOLIDAYS!!! BUSH SIGNED IT INTO LAW IN JANUARY.

WHAT THE HELL DO WE DO ON THE HOLIDAYS, SIT IN THE HOUSE ON THE PHONE AND STEADILY RUN UP THE PHONE BILLS? 4 ME CELL PHONE $500, HOUSE PHONE $300, AND THIS IS AFTER PAYING SOMETHING ON THEM ALREADY! THE FOLLOWING WAS PASTED FROM THE WEBSITE I FOUND TODAY.

ITS KINDA DISCOURAGING TO ME, PERSONALLY, TO WRITE A LETTER AND SEND IT TO MY CONGRESSPERSON VIA THE MAIL. I AM A LITTLE TRUAMATIZED ABOUT ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE MAIL, WILL THEY EVEN GET IT, AND IF THEY DO ARE THEY GOING TO READ IT AND TAKE IT SERIOUS?

HELLO, ANYONE HOME IN "MAIL"VILLE?????????????????

IM SURE WE HAVE ALL READ THAT THIS LAW IS TO PROTECT FOREIGN WOMEN FROM ABUSIVE AMERICAN HUSBANDS. WELL, I AM THE BORN AMERICAN CITIZEN AND I AM A WOMAN. MY HUSBAND IS THE ONE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GLOBE, AND YES THIS STILL AFFECTS US. OK, SO ARE THEY SAYING THAT I HAVE TO SEND IN THIS CRIMINAL HISTORY WHICH WILL BE TOTALLY BLANK AS I DONT HAVE A CRIMINAL HISTORY, TO MY HUSBAND SO HE CAN SIGN A CONSENT THAT HE STILL LOVES ME AND WANTS TO MARRY ME WHEN HE GET HERE FINALLY??? I THINK THEY NEED TO BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND TO THE DAMN POINT ABOUT THE WHO'S AND THAT WHAT'S ARE ENTANGLED IN THIS SH**!!

Tell your friends and neighbors and tell anyone in the media who will listen. Visit Websites and Discussion Forums and sign electronic petitions which are coming online to repeal this pernicious law. There are bound to be legal challenges to this new law, but we don’t need to wait for the courts to rule on this unfair law to make our voices heard.

PLEASE VISIT THIS LINK TO OUR ELECTRONIC

ONLINE PETITION, AND SIGN IT:

Repeal International Marriage Broker Law Petition

PLEASE ALSO VISIT THIS LINK FOR ANOTHER

ELECTRONIC ONLINE PETITION TO SIGN:

We Can Protect Both Immigrant Women

and Male's Privacy with Common Sense Laws

PLEASE ALSO VISIT THESE STOP IMBRA WEBSITES:

IMBRA.org

International Marriage Brokers.com

PLEASE ALSO VISIT THIS NEW ON-LINE-DATING-RIGHTS

DISCUSSION FORUM*:

(*This Office does not necessarily endorse or agree

with comments made on this forum.)

On-Line-Dating-Rights.com

SEE THIS LINK FOR HELP IN CONTACTING THE CONGRESS:

Contacting the Congress

DRAFT OF SAMPLE CONTACT LETTER TO CONGRESS

SENT VIA E-MAIL, REGULAR MAIL AND FAX:

(Feel free to modify as necessary)

DATE:____

SUBJECT: REPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKER LAW, H.R. 3402, P.L. No. 109-162, TITLE VIII, SUBTITLE D, WHICH VIOLATES MY FREE SPEECH AND FREE ASSOCIATION, PRIVACY RIGHTS, RIGHT TO COURT AND MARRY, AND LIMITS MY ROMANCE CHOICES ABROAD AND IS ANTI-MALE AND ANTI-COUPLE.

Dear Congressman, Congresslady and Senator:

I am a U.S. citizen gentlemen and reside in the United States, or am a foreign national woman, or am a friend, supporter or ally. I have read and heard about the passage of "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005" (IMBRA), H.R. 3402, Public Law No. 109-162, Title VIII, Subtitle D.

I am very concerned about the practical consequences of this law, which was passed with only a voice vote without any hearings or testimony or statistical evidence to support it, at the last minute just before the Holiday recess, after being tacked onto the back of other important legislation, namely, The Violence Against Women and Justice Dept. Reauthorization Act.

Did you vote for this International Marriage Broker law? Did you mean to vote for it?

As a single gentleman, foreign woman, or friend, supporter or ally, very interested in romance options outside my country for love, courtship and marriage, this law plainly violates the rights of U.S. citizens, and unfairly and improperly restricts my opportunities.

For me as a U.S. citizen gentleman, just to say "Hi" to a woman from another country through a legitimate romance agency or tour company, I am now forced to supply any legitimate romance agency or tour company all my police record information, domestic violence records, and much more (even if I have no such record). My free speech and privacy rights are being grossly violated, to say the least.

Why am I and other single American gentlemen being branded as "criminal abusers" under this law? Is there any supporting statistical or empirical evidence that incidences of serious abuse and death of foreign national women are any higher than that of domestic women, to justify this law?

This law requires that before "International Marriage Brokers" release a woman’s contact information to a person, they must provide her with a copy of the background collected on that person in her primary language, advise her of the rights and resources available to domestic violence victims in the U.S. in written form, and obtain her written consent to release her contact information.

It is obvious that romance companies, which have signed up a large volume of hundreds and even thousands of sincere women abroad seeking sincere and good-faith U.S. gentlemen spouses, will NOT be able to complete this kind of prohibitively costly and physically impossible commercial task. They will go out of business or go overseas or offshore. My choices as a U.S. citizen consumer or foreign woman consumer will be severely curtailed.

As a foreign woman interested in romance options with sincere U.S. citizen gentlemen, I know that there are thousands of happy and successful inter-cultural marriages, many among my friends, neighbors and even family. With the passage of this law, I and my friends and female family members will have even less options in my country, where there is higher domestic violence and a less desirable living condition and future.

If the purpose of the law is to provide some abuse protection for immigrant women, then that purpose is more than adequately served anyway by other less onerous and violative provisions of the law which say that the U.S. Embassy in the woman's home country will conduct an intensive criminal and domestic violence background check on the gentleman and supply her with all documentation available on him in her primary language, together with domestic violence protection information, BEFORE she secures a visa to visit the U.S.

The International Marriage Broker provisions are not necessary and only unjustifiably violate U.S. citizen rights of free speech and privacy, and stifle a foreign woman's romance options and opportunities.

I urge you to re-consider this unnecessary and pernicious law as it pertains to International Marriage Brokers, and vote to repeal it.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

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ADDRESS

TELEPHONE NUMBER AND E-MAIL ADDRESS

[Artegal 1]

I still don't know exactly what an International Marriage Broker is--but what really bothers me is how you posted your entire original comments in ALL CAPS--sorry I just could not read what you said--as it hurt my eyes.

[gimygirl 0]

I still don't know exactly what an International Marriage Broker is--but what really bothers me is how you posted your entire original comments in ALL CAPS--sorry I just could not read what you said--as it hurt my eyes.

i bet ILIKEALLCAPS would have enjoyed this post!!!