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she will need an Advance parole to travel, that's for I-131 if im not mistaking.

seeing how the OP, from what i've seen, prefers Russian females.. the same is with his ex-gf, who prefers american men... there are different ways to go about getting what u need, the OP's ex considers fooling americans into thinking she looks better then she really does, as one of them lol

am in a similar situation,, sort of..ive lived with my husband for over 4 years, but we only got married 2 months ago.. i dont have a ssn or anything, so we dont have anything joint.. i'm just attaching pictures and sworn affidavits from our friends, signed and notarized.

If you ever get the chance you should make that trip. Scenery/nature wise it looks a lot like the Magadan area, but that's as far as it goes unless things in Magadan have changed since I was there. Anchorage is modern, lots of new housing tracts, stores, etc and the roads and freeways are in good shape. Magadan was looking a bit run down when I was there...that was ten years ago, and only a short time, but from what Iv'e heard Eastern Russia isn't in good shape. Eastern Russia provides the gas, oil, minerals, trees, etc... and they get nothing from the Kremlin in return. It sucks.

i haven/t been there in so long, but from the pictures and from people have told me, sounds like Magadan is doing great and looks modern... i'll let you know when we go there to visit summer 2013! my husband thinks that people will automatically hate him because he's american... but that's not true lol

I'l second that! I dated a gal from Southwest Virginia (Panhandle/Saltville), and I wasn't into that food at all. Beef, pork, fish ftw..ok chinese, italian, an mexican food rocks...and that Cajun stuff taste pretty good. But that stuff you just named off...the hard core southern food...no way!

You should move up north.

nah i like living here in a mild climate, however i wouldn't mind taking a cruise up to Alaska.. but im afraid im gonna be disappointed because it will look just like Magadan, only people speak english ahaha.

ive never had cajun, but i'm dying to try some, also, hardcore ppl from LA talk funny, dont they?

I can see your husbands point in regards to hurricanes. I saw some of those vids on news and screw all that. They showed houses floating out to sea. And the heat...and insect...

OMG woman...you went southern! And ya, your the first Russian Iv'e ever heard of being out drank by an American. Now that's a first.

We will be within a 35 - 40 min. drive of a Super Walmart as soon as we get out of here.

you know they say that southern people are the best kind, but let me tell you, after all this time, i can't stand southern food.. i hate corn bread and gravy and mustard greens.. yuck

I can see your husbands point in regards to hurricanes. I saw some of those vids on news and screw all that. They showed houses floating out to sea. And the heat...and insect...

OMG woman...you went southern! And ya, your the first Russian Iv'e ever heard of being out drank by an American. Now that's a first.

We will be within a 35 - 40 min. drive of a Super Walmart as soon as we get out of here.

haha i told you, i've lived here since 2005, i don't know any different. i just can't wait to actually start my life and work and all that good stuff.. i met my husband when i was about to leave and we started dating and i just couldn't bring myself up to leave.. so 4 years later we finally got married and i'm so looking forward to beinh a fully functioning member of society lol.

Were both to blame for living out here in this ####### hole. When the economy tanked a few years back hundreds of us got laid off in the oil patch (Prudhoe Bay), so I took a one year contract out here as a maintenance foreman. When she arrived and my year was up 8 mos. later she had already signed a one year contract with the hospital (without telling me). When her year was about up and we were ready to move to civilization the hospital offered her free classes via the university, a better position and a raise if she signed on for another year. I have a bad feeling they will pull that ####### again, but she can't really pass it up. She was a veterinarian in Belarus and she likes the medical field, and if this were to come out of our pocket...the schooling that is, it would run us $25,000 or more. That and she has a job waiting for her at the new Alaska Native medical clinic they are building in Wasilla atm. So she can blame herself for these last two years here.

It must be weird for you living in the bible belt eh? I mean I couldn't imagine it myself. I like my beer, dancing, and night life too much for that. Where you moving next...Lexington or Louisville or further south?

im so used to this, it's my home now.. though ive overstayed (not-intentionally), it became my primary home, and especially now that i'm married, my husband is here, so i'm here to stay lol.. though the other day he said if something was to happen and they wouldn't approve me (which is highly unlikely), he would move to Russia with me lol.. i was like okay, we'll see about that. When i moved here, i was 15, so even back home i never knew what's this "night life" is all about, and we don't have anything exciting here, so i am yet to find out. though i got shwasted off 2 glasses of wine this New Year eve, so i'm not sure i can handle a night life ahaha. my husband keeps telling everyone that he outdrank a Russian, but i was like, i dont have much experience! it's not like they feed us vodka instead of formula at a young age lmao.

i dont know where we are gonna move, but to a different state, that's for sure, though those are our long-term goals, im looking forward to it.. i wouldnt mind living somewhere like south carolina, but my husband thinks that they have hurricane katrinas there everyday ahaha.

it must suck living in the middle of nowhere though, i love me some walmart ahaha, idk how yall do it without one!

Other than a five hour layover in Chicago where my wife had to take a few taxi's in order to pick up her cat from customs, she's never seen the lower 48...and I never hear the end of it. I promised her a trip to Seattle this summer.

I didn't move to Alaska until I was 17..from Washington State. I moved back down there for five and a half years hanging iron during the late 90's and I didn't like it. Too many people, traffic and crime. She hates it here but she knows were moving to Big Lake / Wasilla next winter when she's finished with her contract. We have a house being built there and she likes it over there. Walmart, movie theatres, fast internet, Home Depot, Nordstrom, JC Penney, etc... Anchorage has like 300,000 people, Wasilla and surrounding area's have well over 70,000 people and Anchorage is only an hour and a half drive from where we will be living. This village is a dump compared to Minsk, but Wasilla and Anchorage have it all over Belarus a 100x's more.

well she must love you a lot if she's willing to live there.. though you know, as much as i love kentucky, i hate living here (in my town i mean) and my husband and i are planning on moving somewhere warmer after im done with school and we are financially more stable... the bad thing about living here is that there are druggies and welfare idiots on every corner.. and on top of that, they are planning on making our county wet, so it's untelling what our little town is gonna turn into..

there are churches on every corner here and people are either very religious or are total low-lives. but for now this will do.

A lot of people here have their own plane...most don't, but everyone here has at least a friend or two that owns a plane and that's how a lot us go to one village to another. Anchorage has the two largest small plane airports in the world, and here in Dillingham we have two small plane airports (air strips more like it) a long with a a bunch of float plane lakes...floats in the summer and we use ski's on those planes in the winter. It's a quick and easy way to get around seeing how the nearest village here is over an hour by snow machine (snow mobile to you). We have no roads out, and no roads in. Barge service in the summer months when the sea ice is gone, otherwise it's fly in only. It's like that for most of Alaska other than the road system (Anchorage, Fairbanks, Wasilla, Kenai, Seward, etc..)

I have a few war stories with small planes, but my wife does a lot more flying than I do by far. She does dental work and a lot of times she fly's out to the more remote villages for a week to two at a time. She does this about a half dozen times or more during the winter. Summer months are for fishing so no flying then....all the natives are substance and/or commercial fishing during the summer months.

That's my wife there getting ready to fly to some village last winter with the dental team. The planes here are for the most part Cessna's with a few of the richer folk owning Beavers and Otters.

wow it's so different from how we live down here.. everyone travels by a car.. down here, the distance in measured in hours ahaha.

have you all ever thought of moving down to the lower 48? i bet your wife had to take some time to readjust from living in Belarus to living in a small settlement in Alaska.

Not sure about the story on that one. I know Blanche...Sarah's mother in law had the kids here in Dillingham this summer for close to a month so I'm thinking something is up or was. Those kids get pretty bored here so it's not often you seem them come to visit their grandparents here. Blanche and George (Todd's step dad) keep a condo in Anchorage so they usually go there to visit and not the other way around.

geez it's like mexican soap opera or something.. i remember sometime after the show on TLC was over, willow was under the heat of smoking weed and drinking.. that's probably why they are in the middle of nowhere with their grandparents...

according to that show, btw, alaskans use private owned airplanes to go everywhere.. is that so, or that just applies to sarah palin?

It's my one claim to fame in life...seeing Sarah's tits a long with everyone else in the bar that night.

:rofl: :rofl:

how is her husband? is it true that they were supposed to be getting a divorce and stuff?

Sarah is either super smart (making money) or a complete idiot. I think she's a little of both. She uses her popularity to make money, but when it comes to politics she's an idiot. I'm no Palin fan by a long shot. Every time I see her on TV I start to think about the time she was ripped of her ####### and participated in a wet t-shirt contest at the Call of the Wild Bar in Big Lake...this was back in the early 80's.

geez where were you and your black mail when she was running for a VP? haha

People from New England area...Boston, etc.. don't have the letter "R" in their alphabet. Their another bunch that can't speak right. Kentucky does look nice, and it has better weather than here...but I'm not so much on the humidity they have back east. Here it's dry and cold and easy to breathe. The tree's here aren't big and It looks just like Eastern Russia.

Wasilla is pretty good size...they have a super Walmart, Best Buy, Costco, Sears, etc... everything there is pretty new. It's grown fast so it's a little crazy. And ya I know Sarah Palin...I'm renting this place were living in atm from her mother in law. Her in laws live here in Dillingham, but I knew her husband Todd from Prudhoe Bay (work), her sister in law from the bar I used to frequent (her sister in law is a gaint meth head now) and I saw Sarah plenty of times at the grocery store in Wasilla when I lived in Big Lake...which is right up the road from Wasilla. Were moving back to Big Lake as soon as my wife finishes her schooling here for her dental thing. She's on contract until next winter and then it's back to civilization for us.

ha i didn't wanna say anything about civilization, i didnt wanna be rude, but hey, i live in SE KY.. it's not very civilized either, but we do have Walmart lol. especially comparing to magadan, it's a huge city comparing to our little town here.

thats crazy that you know sarah palin ahah, where we live, it's a total bible belt, so most of the people are republicans and they loooove her :S

How did you end up in Kentucky? Iv'e been there once before but those people don't speak proper English...southerners. I couldn't understand a few of them when I was there.

Nothing like Brighton Beach here...most of the Russians here that Iv'e met are from Eastern or Southern Russia. Brighton Beach got all the mafia criminal types from Western Russia and Eastern Ukraine. Other than the Old Faith Russians here...who have been here for a few hundred years, Russian speaking people here don't really seperate themselves from everyone else. We all kind of just blend in together. Most of the guys I worked with at Sakhalin were Alaskans and a lot of them married women from Russia. Now when you go to a high school hockey game, football game, etc... you hear a lot of Russian being spoken in the stands from the "Russian Hockey Moms" as we call them here.

Here's an example...

My wife and I live in Western Alaska near the Bering Sea (Dillingham) but my parents live in Wasilla, Alaska near Anchorage...which is like Little Russia. So anyways we fly over there to visit my parents and I take my wife to visit a friend of mine who married a Russian gal when he was working at Sakhalin. They invited another couple over ...which happens to be another guy that is married to a Russian gal (Sakhalin again) and they brought friends with them who were a Russian couple from Eastern Russia that immigrated here. We decided to have a barbecue and bonfire ...middle of winter mind you and it was around 0 degrees outside ...but you would have thought you were in Russia or Belarus at the time. More Russian was being spoken there than English.

i was an exchange student to begin with and i came back to go to school, then stopped going to school ,met my now husband and the rest is history ahaha. i love kentucky, aint nothing like appalachia lol. funny that you said that they don't even speak english, because now, when i hear someone from new jersey or massachusetts speak, i think that they sound funny ahah.

is wassilla a small town? does everyone know sarah palin there? lol sorry, but i had to ask.

i actually enjoy not having any russians around, if i wanted to be around them, i would have stayed home lol.. when i go to tennessee and meet some russians, i speak to them for a couple minutes and that is just it...

down where i live, we have a lot of mexicans and that's it, havent met anyone from any other countries. i like weather here, way different from Magadan.. we just had our second snow of the winter the other day.

if you have a smartphone, install a skype app and use it. i use it to call russia and 10 dollars lasts a while.

It's like Russia is taking back Alaska slowly but surely.

lol @ that statement.. id like to visit alaska and see for myself, but from the looks of it, it's like Magadan but with McDonalds . but when i watched sarah palin's alaska on TLC, it reminded me of home.. i'm sure you know what im talking about since you've been to Magadan.

Magadan is Anchorage, Alaska's sister city. There used to be direct flights from Anchorage to Magadan via Aeroflot. We have two Russian teachers here at the university...she is from St. Petersburg and her husband Victor is from Magadan. Funny thing is she teaches English and Spanish at the university here. My wife goes to church with them but most of the Russians living here are "Old Faith", but more and more Russians are moving here. In fact Wasilla, Alaska has three Russian churches. Old Faith of course, the newer faith Russian Orthodox Church, and now the former FSU people living here built there own Russian speaking protestant church. They got in a p*ssing match with the priest at the ROC church and said "fck it" and built their own church. Services are done in Russian with an English translator for the kids who don't speak Russian so well. It has people from Russia, Ukraine, Kazahks, ...you name it...even a few Bulgarians. And a mile down the road is a Russian food store with Russian movies.

It's like Russia is taking back Alaska slowly but surely.

yeah they stopped flying those planes they year i came over here, so i had to make a round-the-world trip just to get back home.. where i live, there are no russians whatsoever.. oh well..

is there anything like "Brighton beach" over there ahah? i can only imagine how many russians are over there,because seems like every green card lottery winner gets sent to alaska lol

It's the same here. I like the people from that neck of the woods. I worked at Sakhalin Island, and spent a few weeks in Magadan and those peole were totally cool....other than the few who tried to rip us off...but it happens. My wife's uncle lives in Vladivostok and he's about as cool as it gets. He used to import cars until Tsar Putin put an end to that with the taxes but he made a killing. He speaks perfect English and passes himself off as an American at bars and that guy has more pick up lines than Iv'e ever seen. He's the one who gave me a bachelor party that I'l never forget. He's not allowed to speak to me anymore now unless the wife is there.

If Russia Far East was a part of the US it would make a killing. It would be like here in Alaska. Those people would have oil money up the ####### and be living a heck of a lot better than they are now. Between Alaska and Russia Far East...those two regions would run this country.

you said Magadan and my heart dropped ahah, it's my home town and i love it! though the weather is brutal and summers are short, i'm proud to be from there, i would give everything for Magadan to be a part of US aha, no kidding, i love it that much.. we have everything from gold to salmon.. anything! a lot of people from Magadan immigrated to Alaska, in fact my history teacher from School back home had just moved to Anchorage this passed summer because she won a green card lottery lol.

but as u might have noticed, most of the cars that people drive in Magadan are Japanese, it's normal for us to have a right-hand drive car.. but by the looks of what you just said, that's gonna be no more

It could possibly be the government tapping in.... I've read other posts about people hearing clicking noises and strange sounds when talking to their loves....so maybe, although it is creepy I wouldn't be worried too much they just may hear some risqué convos Hahahaha or it could just be a technology mishap....?!

that happened to me once when i was on the phone with my mom bout 4 or 5 years ago.. one minute we were talking normal, the next it sounded like someone was rewinding tape while we were talking or something.. i freaked out and hung up, haven't heard anything like that since.

Those are actually Canadian companies. Alaska Gold, Nova Gold, etc... all Canadian. All our gold, nickel, etc...in Alaska is mined by Canadian companies. They use Alaska names so the locals here don't go ballistic. A few years ago I helped construct a ball mill at a mine and most of the workers there were Canadians, Australians, and South Africans.

on the second thought, you are right about them being Canadian, that slipped my mind, but you are right.. either way, the point is that Russia's mining companies are ran by foreign investors almost 100% of the time.. all of the resources pretty much belong to them.. russians just claim the territory and that's all

i'm from Kolyma, was born and raised there and let me tell you, about 80% of gold and silver mines are ran and invested in by Americans (specifically from Alaska), the other 20% belongs to Germans haha, so most of the resources that are being mined there are being exported or sold to the US. i don't know if you would consider Kolyma as a part of Siberia, but it's a Far East for sure.

Amy told me earlier that in US it's easy to find a ravioli, and even if it's not absolutely the same, it's very similar to pelmeni. Did you try it - are ravioli really close to pelmeni?

[Victor from Russia]

consider that the biggest lie your wife ever told you haha. Ravioli is pure ####### comparing to pel'meni (no offence to italians)

[it's Victor from Russia]

I think, every country has really good food, just not everywhere it cooked in a good way. When my Amy visited me in Russia for the first time, she told that Russian food is delicious, and Russians know how to eat. As I remember, during 8 weeks together we spend ina 2 visits, Amy didn't like only 2 meals - boiled beef tongue and "meat JELL-O", everything else in Russia was yummy for my Baby.

Amy really likes many food in Russia and about some things told that it's nothing like this exists in US. When Amy visited me for the 2nd time, it were big pan of borsch (very yummy, if you cooked it right, and complicate soup with beetroot) and "herring under fur coat" (Russian salad with salted herring, beetroot, and many other ingredients) waiting for her at home. About Russian "Napoleon-cake" Amy told it's one of the best cakes she has ever tried in her entire life, she also likes a lot Russian "Potato-cake", and many other Russian meals. At the same time I can tell that I like US food too - for example, I'm really fan of stuffing Amy made for Thanksgiving dinner, and scalloped corn, and some more meals I've tried during our time together.

jesus you're killing me ahaha, i can't wait to go and visit my parent, i told them, they better meet me at the airport with a big bowl of pel'meni i holodets . it will be 7 years since i've last been in Russia when i go there in 2013.

Ask my wife !!!

When in America she always gains. When she goes home she loses. She is back in Russia now and reminds me that she will lose weight.

I claim this type if diet is too expensive

hey, at least it works haha! plus after you add up all the jenny craigs and weight watchers fees, it would come out close to a round-trip ticket to Russia