Look
through the profiles listed on the site & choose the ladies who interest
you. To send a letter to a lady, click on the "Email-me now"
button. You will need to Register on our website to send e-mails. Registration
is fast and free - just answer a few simple questions.
After registering you
will be able to create your own profile for ladies to see. This service is
absolutely free. Your
ad can be with, or without photo and as long, or short as you like. Thousands
of Russian Women will see your ad and many will try to contact you via e-mail.
When you start to receive letters, write to the few ladies who interest you.
After
a few months of communication, there should be several ladies whom you are
really interested in. At this point, you can start planning your trip to
Russia/Ukraine to meet them in person. You have to travel to Russia and meet
your fiancee in person if you are serious about the process. If it is time for
you to travel to Russia, or
you want to bypass the letter writing process all together & meet the
ladies first, our tours give you a great
opportunity to meet 600-1100 lovely ladies in Moscow,
St. Petersburg, Kiev,
or Odessa. Listed
below are some of the most frequently asked questions. If the question you
want to ask is not answered here, feel free to call us at 207-262-9595, or
E-mail us at info@russianbride.com.
How honest are these women?
There is an
increasing number of new sites on the web featuring scams involving
Russian women. They paint a gloomy picture of Russian women being
only interested in green cards and money. Some men after reading
these sites are ready to give up the whole idea of finding a partner
in Russia - "there are too many bad girls out
there".
However, if you read these 2-3 sites carefully, you will see that
all of them are devoted to the same 80-150 women who make a living
out of scamming Western men for money. This is a tiny percentage of
about 40.000-50.000 Russian females who are looking for a partner
abroad. The vast majority of men searching for a wife in Russia and
Ukraine meet and marry great women without ever encountering any
scams, or scam artists.
English ability is rated from E1 - able to write a letter with a dictionary, to E4 -
fluent.
How do women join "Anastasia"?
We advertise our services in Russian newspapers &
magazines, but we publish very few ladies who joint us this way. Instead we prefer to work
with a wide network of Russian-based marriage agencies. We work with agencies in more then
60 cities of the former USSR, selecting the best ladies they have as clients &
featuring them in our catalogs & videos. It gives us the following advantages:
The
owners of these agencies know all women personally & we can be sure that the women we
present are sincerely interested in finding a partner.
The owners of these agencies
actively participate in organizing our tours, are present at the socials & can tell
you more information about each lady you meet.
The owners also stay in touch with the
women & notify us immediately of the address changes, engagements, etc., so that our
database is always up to date.
We also accept women with the referral from a lady/gentlemen who used our services before. We also meet most of the ladies in person during our
tours. Because we meet most of them, and because our staff verifies every
new bio to be posted on our site, we never had a case where the photo the girl sent in
turned out not to be her own, or any similar incidents. There is no charge for women to
join our services.
What kind of response can I hope for?
To enjoy a good response rate:
Be realistic in your choices.
Avoid writing women who are
better educated then you are.
Do not limit yourself to writing 1-2 ladies, especially the
most attractive ones.
Write women who will fit into your lifestyle. If you live in the
country, far away from larger cities avoid writing to the ladies who list their hobbies as
theater, fashions, etc. Instead write to ones who enjoy nature, animals, may be gardening
& outdoor activities.
You can increase your chances to receive responses by writing at least 15-20 women and placing your ad in our Gentlemen's Catalog.
It's all about exposure. The more contacts you make the better are your chances
of finding somebody you like, who also thinks you are special.
Can I bring the lady to the US for a visit?
It's almost impossible to obtain a tourist visa for a lady. However if you've traveled
to Russia & decided get married, you can bring your lady over on a K-1 visa
(Fiancee
Visa). This type of visa allows your lady to stay in the US for the period of 3 months. At
the end of the 3 month period you either have to get married, or the lady has to return to
her home country. There are no extensions on the Fiancée Visa. More
info.
Some men are concerned that the lady might just be interested in US citizenship when
looking for a foreign husband. Becoming a US citizen is a very long process. About 6
months after you two are married, you have to appear for an interview with the Immigration & Naturalization Service (INS). The goal of the interview is to prove to the
INS that your marriage is legitimate. After this interview the lady will receive a
temporary green-card. In another 2 years you will have to appear for the second
interview w
& only then will your wife receive a permanent green card.
