I have read the various posts that using a marriage broker, aka Cherry Blossoms, should not cause any issues. Does anyone know if there would be any issues if she signed up for the service and we met online when she was 17 years old although I will not meet her in person until she is 18 years old?

Meeting her before she turns 18 isn't a problem either.

You shouldn't have any problems. Make sure you document your visit and take plenty of pictures. Good luck on the beginning of your journey.

Have to be careful there, according to US law, there's a mandatory 30 year jail sentence for someone in the US who goes to meet someone under the age of 18 in a foreign country. You might want to check her official birth certificate. I'm not sure if the same is true for communicating with someone on-line who is under the age of 18? There have been lots of cases of child sex predators in the US having been arrested for communicating online with someone under the age of 18, even if they never actually met.

Neither "meeting" or "communicating" in person or online is against any law. "Soliciting" or "having" sex with a someone under the age of 18 is in many countries. For instance, I met my step-daugher online and in person when she was 17. No problem.

Words mean things.

Common pushbrk! Get real!
Stepdaughter!
Did she indroduce you to mom?

As pushbrk pointed out the key word here is "Solicitation" for sex with a minor or sharing of pornographic material with a minor which clearly isn't the case here. It is not a crime to converse with a minor.

I'm am being as real as is humanly possible. I also met my brother in-law's five year old neice, his 13 year old daughter and a friend's 8 year old son. I commonly meet teenagers on a weekly basis.

Meeting and communicating aren't crimes. Even when the subject is romance, meeting can occur without any criminal activity. "Meeting" does not have a sexual connotation, in and of itself and neither does romance or love. Even in this century, there are actually people who meet and marry without having sex first.

Sex stuff between adults and juviniles is the problem, not "meeting" and "communicating" or even falling in love.

Thanks everyone for your comments. Obviosuly I will not meet her until she is 18 and in fact am really just having friendly conversations at this point. I am also 28 years old so I dont think the 10 year age gap will be much of an issue.

For the purposes of having sex.