To those of you griping about IMBRA

[pokernut 0]

I dont believe this story... the man would have to go through all this process... pay plane trips and etc. and the waiting periods just for that... baloney... you can go to those countries and have all the sex you want without going through this process. this story is bogus big time baloney

I know a lot of you have had ridiculously long waits and delays because of IMBRA, and I have a short story for you:

I know a person through a business associate, (he is NOT my friend, in fact I loath his behavior), who has been abusing the I-129f petition for years. He has brought several women to the USA for the 90 day period, used them, and sent them away packing before the 90 days was up. He brags about all the women he's 'had' from all over the world.

I can most certainly sympathize with those of you who have had to wait so long, and I also think it must be he|| to have to see people who applied AFTER you getting approvals BEFORE you, (I'd be pis**d as he|| to!). The USCIS should be focusing in the older cases before working on the newer ones.

At the same time, I am extremely happy that what this SOB has been doing will no longer be permitted. At the very least, if he is ever permitted to bring anyone else here again, they are going to be informed how many he's done this to in the past, if i understand the new law correctly.

Bill

[knowledge 0]

I know a lot of you have had ridiculously long waits and delays because of IMBRA, and I have a short story for you:

I know a person through a business associate, (he is NOT my friend, in fact I loath his behavior), who has been abusing the I-129f petition for years. He has brought several women to the USA for the 90 day period, used them, and sent them away packing before the 90 days was up. He brags about all the women he's 'had' from all over the world.

I can most certainly sympathize with those of you who have had to wait so long, and I also think it must be he|| to have to see people who applied AFTER you getting approvals BEFORE you, (I'd be pis**d as he|| to!). The USCIS should be focusing in the older cases before working on the newer ones.

At the same time, I am extremely happy that what this SOB has been doing will no longer be permitted. At the very least, if he is ever permitted to bring anyone else here again, they are going to be informed how many he's done this to in the past, if i understand the new law correctly.

Bill

Wow! is he a fetishist?

[TomAlciere 0]

i'm going to be bluntly honest about the original poster.

Too bad.

you have demonstrated one malicious individual who abuses a system, that individual has not been punished.

tens of thousands of honest people who try to do it the right way are being punished because of one bad apple.

That is what we have fallen to as a society but it's not acceptable, you cannot punish everyone for the acts of an individual and you cannot punish everyone to try to protect one or two random people from doing something stupid. That last part is a direct reference to the high profile case that inspired this law.

The change is immoral, the way this country sometimes over reacts with far reaching consequences to honest citizens trying to make their way in the world and do things the right way is also totally wrong.

bad things sometimes happen to good people for no reason and the government has no business trying to legislate their protection.

It is not punishing everyone for the sake of one individual. Think of how many other people may be doing this also. This is only one story and although it's not ideal for people to have to wait longer to bring their loved-ones to the U.S, hopefully is stop aholes like this from continuing to use and abuse the system.

You may not like it, but if the shoe were on the other foot and your daughter was going to marry a man in a foreign country, wouldn't you like to make sure that there was a sfety net in place so this kind of thing doesn't happen??

All the government needs to do is review its own records and see how many K-1's you filed and tell your bride at the consular interview, or before when they get her address on the petition.

[Beauty for Ashes 257]

I know a lot of you have had ridiculously long waits and delays because of IMBRA, and I have a short story for you:

I know a person through a business associate, (he is NOT my friend, in fact I loath his behavior), who has been abusing the I-129f petition for years. He has brought several women to the USA for the 90 day period, used them, and sent them away packing before the 90 days was up. He brags about all the women he's 'had' from all over the world.

I can most certainly sympathize with those of you who have had to wait so long, and I also think it must be he|| to have to see people who applied AFTER you getting approvals BEFORE you, (I'd be pis**d as he|| to!). The USCIS should be focusing in the older cases before working on the newer ones.

At the same time, I am extremely happy that what this SOB has been doing will no longer be permitted. At the very least, if he is ever permitted to bring anyone else here again, they are going to be informed how many he's done this to in the past, if i understand the new law correctly.

Bill

This IMBRA law is ruining my life... I had a petition filed in 2005 and we broke up and because of this law I am being kept apart from the man that loves me. They sent me an intent to deny and havent responded to my appeal and its been weeks ,... IMBRA is hurting people and should be for men like this but people like me and others are being affected by it

[MidnightinMoscow 0]

Tucson Bill,

In most other first-world countries, an American or other westerner can bring a girlfriend or boyfriend into the country for 90 days for a visit.

Whether or not premarital sex happens is not your business nor the governments.

Whether or not someone brags about having multiple sex partners is not your business nor the governments.

People have serial monogamous or even non-monogamous relationships all the time.

None of this is your business.

Of course an American has the right to bring a significant other into the country for a visit of 90 days, without a delay of more than 2 weeks to check if the foreigner is not a terrorist and that there is health insurance and the American vouches for the financial well being of the visitor (this is what the other countries do).

If an American wants to do this 10 times with 10 different people, that is their right and someone is going to take this to court someday soon.

Now, this guy who bragged may have been an SOB for leading women on who honestly believed that he would marry them.

But that is an entirely different subject and one that, again, the US government will someday soon be found to have no right to interfere with.

Remember that the Republicans are on their way out partly because of this attitude. We may see 60 Democrat senators take their seats in 2009. Then, in 2012, Republicans might start to campaign and get elected on wanting government to stay out of the personal lives of others.

[MidnightinMoscow 0]

Whether something is constitutional or not depends on money.

Take for instance the porn industry.

Because they have a lot of money, they got themselves "constitutionally protected".

There is 100 times more money in owning a porn site than an introduction agency. As Preston Steckel said in the EC IMBRA trial "there are only 4 of these so-called IMBS and those who say there are 200 must be talking about extremely tiny sites".

The international dating industry is extremely small and not much money is floating around there. Even worse: it is such a niche market that the guys who own the 4 big sites are not MBA corporate types who know how to do PR, etc.

So lack of money and sophistication has temporarily equalled "no constitutional protection" for international dating.

On the Visa Application side there is $$ to be made by immigration lawyers because of IMBRA. These guys love IMBRA. Lawyers everywhere like increased liability and bureaucracy.

So, until someone rich gets their visa denied because of IMBRA, there will be "no constitutional protection" for marrying a foreigner.

That being said, there are people right now who will finance a lawsuit. Poverty is no excuse.