Quote: (07-03-2013 04:25 PM)Courage Wrote:
Has anyone met a girl away from their home country and brought her home for marriage & kids?
A lot of guys talk about this, but I'm curious if anyone here has actually done it.
I'm at a stage in my life where getting started on a family is more interesting than notches and ONS. Wondering if I should keep trying for that small town american girl next door, or just meet one overseas and import...
I actually brought a fiancee here under a K1 visa. She was really young, and changed her mind about marrying me after we got back here. She wasn't a scammer, just wasn't into me enough. I paid for her ticket back.
However there are risks. SOme are less likely than others, I don't know how freq #2 happens:
1) You waste a year waiting for the visa if you are in the USA working, and you may end up screwed like I did.
2) You have to sign an affadavit of support, and she can claim you beat her up, and because of the VAWA she can leave you, stay in the USA, get on welfare and food stamps and you owe the government the money for supporting her except after she works 10 years or something like that.
3) She can have kids here, get citizenship or perm residency, ditch you, then you're on the hook for exorbitant child support.
4) She can be doing the long con, stay on birth control if you want kids, then when she gets citizenship after 2-4 years ditch you for the Russian or whatever -- guy she really wanted and stay in the USA.
If I do it again, I'm going to go somewhere stay there get her pregnant, and watch her performance as a wife for a few years, then bring her and the kids here when the kids are like 5-7 or something.
Then if she ditches you, you only have maybe 9 years of child support instead of 16-18
I've posted elsewhere about the nightmare of imputed income, I COULD make a lot of money if I wanted, but I like taking it easy. However, child support can bill you -- without any recourse on your part-- for the amount they think you SHOULD be making, which can leave you owing big and fucked.