sea-monkey

She has a good job in Moscow for a foreign company. Plus, flights to w. EU aren’t that long/expensive from Moscow. $300 RT to Italia was what I saw.

Forever 21 is better. More hoochie mama atire. My girl doesn't even buy clothes or shoes in Russia. Doesn't like the clothes. She goes to Italy to shop year after year

That ain't happening once she gets here

I'm sure plenty of American/UK companies profitted from contracting jobs. Just follow the money....

Getting payback sounded good after 9-11 but now, I'm seeing how stupid it was. I'm all for flattening and reducing them to a pile of rubble. Ain't on board with having to clear out those rubbles and building them modern buildings. How does this benefit us again? Who's footing the bill?

I make an English label and a seperate cyrillic label.

Madness

My girl flies out of SVO or DME at least once a month for business

Luckily they didn't strike a few weeks back when they had all those folks stranded at the airports.

While I hate HOA's just as the next guy, she is 85% or more to blame in this situation. You can't just stick your head in the sand and ignore real life.

The guy should have asked a sibling or parents to keep tabs on the bills if he knew she was irresposible.

I'd have second thoughts about spending the rest of my life with someone like that...

I've been using the landline/mobile 400 Minutes for $13.99/month since it started a handful of months ago. Calls are to a Moscow cell number. I was paying 7 cents a minute before with skype and it was expensive. I used to spend about $70/month. Now I have 2 skype 400 minute accounts.

I wish there was a way to get a Russian telephone number for myself like skype has for other countries.

Also, anyone familiar with how the RU mobile carriers operate? Are they charged for incoming calls? My girl says the calls are not charge but not really sure since the mobile is paid for by her company. I also send SMS from skype to her mobile in Moscow. Are they charged any different from that?

Ok, please accept my appologies. Slim is a bad influence

check out www.zaokeanom.com , it's a forum for Russian ladies in the USA

Is this the forum Slim refers to all the time? Saying the MOBs get entitlement ideas from. I've better block this site now on my router

My girl luckily had her vacation planned for next weekend out of Moscow

She was nearly caught up in 2 airport meltdowns this year. Just within the past 2 months actually. Spain and London….She was supposed to holiday in Spain when the controllers walked off the job. She was enroute to Italy to make a connecting flight but was stranded in Italy for the duration. She didn’t mind being shipwrecked in Italy.

She dodged a bullet with London a few weeks ago. She left London 2 days before the snow hit wreaked havoc on travel in the UK.

Would travel insurance cover these weather related interuptions?

Things were great until the non RUBs showed up

I have an Aerogarden myself. It grows herbs and lettuce. But you can also grow tomatos and flowers indoor. My girl has always been envious of it and they don't have it in Moscow.

If I had land I would grow stuff. That little plot of grass everyone has in their front uard is just a stupid waste of space. You can't even walk on it for risk of being yelled at or are the one doing the yelling

Interacting with fellow classmates? Chances are, their English will be worse than hers. Blind leading the blind I'm joking.

I plan on throwing my girl in ESL even though she's fluent with English. But of course she doesn't know the name of everything and the English she speaks regularly in RU is business oriented. I'll see if she would be ok with volunteering her time in addition to ESL when first starting out. The more interaction with native speakers the better. Maybe volunteer with old folks. Get her away from the ebonics.

i would like to call it more of a "responsibility".. we filipinos support our parents when they're old because we believe that we owe so much to them..

our parents raised us, fed us, sent us to school, etc etc.. so when they're old, it's our time to take care of them.. kind of a payback time..

I am stuck in this situation now here in USA. My mom lives 30 mins away. I have to support my mom. All of us kids do because my parents divorced a decade ago and she has no form of income and doesn't want to work. Why work when you have 4 kids who you can extract money from each month. Her health is so so but she's able to work if she wanted to.

So pretty much I'll be giving around $300/month (I was paying $700/month for the past 4 years) to her for the rest of her life and so will the other siblings.

Children should not have the responsibility nor obligation to support their parents. We didn't make the decision to be born. We didn't sign up for anything. My mom should be ashamed at the situation but she has no shame in any of this

I'm too proud to do something like this I don't really want to rock the boat so thats why I just fork over the money each month.

This retirement plan doesn't sound to bad. Produce kids so they'll take care of you once they are of working age. Then they'll support you once you're old.

Produce a number of them so even if you have a bad one or two, you've got your bases covered.

Kids don't cost that much to raise in poor countries, while the payoff far exceeds the raising cost.

lol at all the people telling him to go across the world to hold her hand through the entry trip

Emigrating today is a walk in the park compared to a few generations ago, well the traveling part at least. You get dropped off at the airport and a handful of hours later, you’ve arrived.

Also for the price of the extra ticket, she could just buy whatever she needs when she gets here. Tell her to bring nothing if its too much trouble.

This is what China is for, to produce cheap stuff for our consumption. For $400-500 at Old Navy, you can have an entire wardrobe.

So is this a plane ticket for 2010 or 2011

The refund will pay for a nice vacation, new appliance or more clothes for the wife, and who knows, you might get part of it too. :rofl:

Who says Tanya has to know about this refund

If the marraige benefit is going away, more reason to do it sooner rather than later

He already spent a good sum on airfare this year. Let uncle sam pickup the POE fare and marriage fees.

She will have plenty of time during this month to see everyone she needs to see.

I'm not an expert on taxes or anything. I just fiddled with my 2009 taxes. I logged back in and changed my filing from single/no dependents to married/joint to see what my taxes would be like.

Of course she will have 0 income for the year so you have 2 people on your filing. Instead of owing money like I do each year, I would net $4-5k. Thats why I say to get her over here and marry. But the amount back varies with income. I think a new immigrant would qualify, hopefully someone else can chime in.

You can even go to turbotax now and input your 2009 numbers, just use a different name an SS to get an idea.

You're his hired legal counsel? Joking...Congrats to them both

Now, tell him to get her over here and marry before the 31th to take advantage of tax credits for '10.

That is going to work right?

Any word on how the medicals went? Today was the day right?

I love the Mexico option

If you do go that route, make sure you video tape the setup and put it up on youtube, that would be pure gold and a deterrent to other scammers

Chris M is a man of few words and posts it seems. Only his original post to be found in two pages of helpful replies...and without one thank you or acknowledgment. This includes a great offer to have his girl stay for free in Moscow by Henycat.

Maybe he's using the back channel? We'll soon see.

She is a good fit for him seeing how she is slow to respond also

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_moral_character

Felon + Druggie....I don't think she'll pass any interviews and no congress person will voucher for that.