Also enjoyed that post by cufflinks.
One thing from my female immigrant perspective. Cufflinks wrote that immigrant women just find a better man to marry while in the US.
Marry? Why marry a woman if she is already here, and does not need a marriage to stay in the West? Why not just date her, and enjoy her company, her care and feelings for you?
On a Russian immigrant board, I have read that Russian women may have male friends and admirers who prefer seeing them may be once a week, but would not marry them. Reasons for that tendency were not mentioned. An implication was, likely typically for a Russian mind, 'we don't tell you why, you should know why'.
Many American men, ask me one of three questions.
1. How do I find a Russian wife like yours? I tell them it's much more difficult then you can imagine.
To explain to an American man everything that I did would take hours.
It's not worth explaining because they will never do it.
2. How do I find a Russian girlfriend like your wife? I tell them it's impossible. They would need to find a local Russian girl or move
to Russia. Back when I was single I dated many local Russian girls. Nearly every
one of them was still jaded or damaged some way from their previous marriage.
One girl previously had an educational visa and converted it somehow to a
greencard. She was slim and tall, but she thought that she was much better
looking than she was. She had very little personality as well.
3. Will your wife fix me up with a friend of hers? I will always say, NO!
My wife would always select her friend that needs a man the most or
who she misses the most. Rather one that looks hot enough and knows
English well enough for a man to jump through all the hoops needed to
visit Russia or to win a girls heart or the one thousand other things that
a man must do to marry a Russian woman.