The Fiancée Visa Racket

[doombug]

Some of his columns at VDARE.com are spot on, but this one (dated March 15th, 2002) reads as if Bill O'Reilly wrote it:

The Fiancée Visa Racket
By  Joe Guzzardi

When “Abby” enrolled in my English as a second language class, she had been in the U.S. for only a few weeks.

Abby is different from most of my students. At twenty, she is younger than the average student. And Abby’s native country is Brazil. Most of my class is either from Mexico or Pakistan.

Something else set Abby apart, too. As a brand new bride living out her dream of coming to America, Abby was full of enthusiasm for learning English.

Abby said that she had met her husband while he was working on a construction crew in Brazil. When they fell in love, she got a fiancée visa, joined him in Lodi and they married.

When I heard “fianceé visa,” I was immediately skeptical. But the story sounded plausible. Since Abby is a nice kid, I wanted to give her the benefit of the doubt. But before long, my suspicions were confirmed.

I overheard Abby tell classmates that her husband was twice her age, didn’t want her to learn to drive and worked as an auto mechanic.

And one day, when part of a classroom exercise was to write sentences using either “must” or “might,” Abby wrote: “Why must you drink so much?”

Then, three months after she arrived in the U.S., Abby announced that her husband had thrown her out.

As it turned out, Mr. Wonderful is 58, nearly three times Abby’s age. And Abby is the third woman he brought to the U.S. on a fiancée visa. The other two were Russian women, whom he cut loose before marrying them. Abby doesn’t know what happened, but we can be 100% sure they didn’t go back to Russia. [100%? :lol:  This is one adept, immigrant-tracking mofo!]

Here in a nutshell is Abby’s current situation: she has no job, no skills, no money, no close friends, no family and no home. She speaks limited English. If Abby is lucky, she might land a 7-Eleven job.

Abby is living in the Women’s Center. She can stay there for 60 days. In the meantime, she goes to Lodi Community Center where she gets free bus tickets and two free loaves of bread a week.

Mr. Wonderful has offered to buy Abby a return ticket to Brazil. But she doesn’t want to go. “I’m already here,” she declared.

While I feel badly for the young and naïve Abby, anyone who puts herself up for sale [stereotype alert!] on the Internet has to take the consequences.

No matter what anyone may think about the merits or flaws of our immigration system, few can argue that the growth of international marriage agencies, aided and abetted by the “fiancée visa,” is—for all except the shameless immigration lawyers and those who own the agencies —a bad deal all around.  [Did he mean, "few can argue that the growth of IMA's is a good deal all around"?]

The K-1 or fiancée visa makes it all happen. The visa, valid for 90 days, is issued when an American male petitions the INS for the woman to come to the U.S. If no marriage occurs during that period, then legally the woman must return. Of course, not many do. [Biased-hunch alert!]

Matchmaking companies drive the K-1 visa sham. Marriage agencies are an unregulated, multimillion-dollar industry.  Organizations like the Anastasia Company (www.russianbrides.com) claim to do it all for the prospective groom.

So accommodating is the Anastasia Company that it will even arrange for flowers, candy or teddy bears to be delivered to over 180 Russian and Ukrainian cities. “Make your lady feel special!” encourages Anastasia. Just imagine: your bouquet in Moldova! [And, somehow, this is a bad thing?]

When it comes time for the visa nitty-gritty, the Anastasia Company passes the ball to the K-1 specialists, Lawrence R. Holmes and Allan Scott Lolly (www.fianceevisas.com). Conveniently, the two firms endorse each other on their websites.

If you are perhaps intrigued by the prospect of a Russian bride, may I sound a cautionary note? Holmes, who devotes his entire practice to fiancée visas, has this potentially exhausting advice for clients: “Stay in Russia for as long as possible. Spend as much time with as many women as possible. This increases your odds of success.”

And Holmes is very proud of his success. His website proudly states that Holmes has “a 100% success rate.”

All of this is tawdry stuff. Young women like Abby who would probably have decent lives in their own country come to America to be turned out and then left to their own devices.  [How about a vast majority return home, Joey.  They have much to lose by "overstaying"--especially with no family, friends, contacts, prospects, etc., to "anchor" them here.  Undocumented "guest workers"--unlike unintended visa beneficiaries--initiate their own journey to the U.S.  They've planned, prospected, networked, and saved-up well ahead of their intentional migration.  And they've likely practiced their runs dozens of times.]

But sometimes the young “exotic” brides dump the loser guys. [True dat! True dat!]  Often the women know more about how things work in the U.S. than they have let on.

Many husbands have complained that their sweet brides had dramatic personality changes once they arrived on American soil. And other men report that once married, the new bride announces that her children—previously unmentioned—will be joining them soon.

Said former Senior INS official T. Alexander Aleinikoff in a critical statement about the international marriage business, “This is not to say that some (K-1 visa) marriages aren’t bona fide but given the chance for abuse and exploitation, should we be handing out visas that aren’t subject to quotas where the industry is totally unregulated?” [The "industry" may not be regulated (yet), but the process certainly is.]

The fiancée visa isn’t in our national interest.  [Neither are blow-up dolls, lawn darts, or lime-green curtains.]  The U.S. has no compelling need to issue a K-1 visa. Nor do we need the new K-3 visas that reduce the waiting time for those who married overseas and wish to bring their spouses to the U.S.

We need to slow down, not speed up, any and all immigration processes.

Yet the number of K-1 visas issued annually has increased steadily over the last five years, according to the State Department.

Eliminating these visas would be an excellent way to begin the overdue cutback in legal levels of immigration.  [Cat's-out-of-the-bag alert!  And one of the core reasons (hang in there; the other reason is  coming up soon) behind why Joe doesn't want you "buying" yourself a wife overseas.]

Joe Guzzardi,  an instructor in English at the Lodi Adult School, has been writing a weekly column since 1988. It currently appears in the Lodi News-Sentinel.

http://www.vdare.com/guzzardi/fiancee.htm

Joe threw his hat in to run against Gray Davis in California's recall election.

His campaign motto:

"Vote for Common Sense."

He asked of the voters:

"Let's have a common sense discussion about all of California's challenges. We can do that without counter-charges of racism or immigrant bashing."  [He must have added in small print (with a wink and a chuckle):  "Though, I'm partial to immigrant-petitioner bashing."]

And how's Joe doin' with the ladies?  

Why's he really hatin' on  aficionados of hot Latinas?

" have had difficulty sustaining meaningful relationships with women, but forge ahead anyway."

http://www.etherzone.com/2003/kali091603.shtml

Joe "Blue-Balls" Guzzardi.

Proof that even men can be prudes.

Salud!

[Ray]

Another emasculated male buys into the feminist propaganda bull [snip]...

We need to slow down, not speed up, any and all immigration processes.

Oh, kiss my ass you sissy-boy!  

[utopiacowboy]

Looks like Joe would be happier in San Francisco with his own kind. I ask you, what Latina would want anything to do with this guy?

[flipflop]

So, the US government thinks it can tell me who I can marry?


I think not

[doombug]

So, the US government thinks it can tell me who I can marry?

No, I think they'd rather take the "road most travelled" and just stigmatize the hell out of American males.

Oh, and as for Joe "Blue-Balls" above:  Sorry for any confusion, but the picture of the blue-ball wielding chap with the lip-locked tankard is not Joe Guzzardi.  That's just a wimped-out personification of him.

Anyone who is against courting foreign women has got to be at least a little wimpy.  :lol: