The International Marriage Broker Regulation Act (H.R. 3402 Title VIII – Subtitle D) goes into effect on March 6, 2006. The law protects the rights and safety of foreign women, who emigrate into the U.S. as fiances or wives of gentlemen living in the U.S. There are several key features to the legislation:

1. NEW FIANCE VISA FORMS: 1-129F Fiance and K-3 Spousal Visa petitions will now require that the petitioner provide information regarding any criminal history for specified crimes, including violent offenses, domestic abuse or sexual assault. (The foreign ladies are already required to provide similar criminal background information during the Visa application process)
2. LIMIT ON NUMBER OF VISA PETITIONS: Men who have filed two (2) or more fiance visa petitions in the past, and had at least one of them approved, must wait two (2) years from the last filing date before being approved for another fiance visa petition. (Exception: Under some circumstances, a petitioner may be able to obtain a “waiver”.)
3. MULTIPLE VISA PETITION DATABASE: Men who have been approved for a second visa petition or who are filing for a third visa petition will be put into a Visa Petition Database, which will be used to monitor possible abuse of the visa system.
4. DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PAMPHLET: The Department of Homeland Security will develop a pamphlet for publication on State Department and Embassy websites, which will review the visa process, marriage and visa fraud, conditional residency, domestic violence and abuse rights, where and how to get help, as well as many other warnings and notifications. The pamphlet will be published in 14 languages and will be updated every two years.
5. CONSULAR INTERVIEW: During the consular interview, the officer will provide the visa applicant with information and documents in her native language regarding the male petitioner’s marital and divorce history, as well as any criminal and/or domestic violence history. The officer will also review the Federal Pamphlet described above, and answer any questions the lady may have. The Consular officer will also ask the visa applicant if the relationship was facilitated by an International Marriage Broker and, if so, ask if the broker provided her with the required information and documents regarding the male petitioner’s background.
6. REGULATION OF INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKERS (IMBs): Before releasing a lady’s Personal Contact Information to a U.S. client, an IMB must:
   • Search the National Sex Offender Public Registry and State Sex Offender Public Registry in any state the U.S. client has lived for the past twenty (20) years.
   • Require the U.S. client to provide background information (and supporting documents where necessary) regarding his past criminal and/or domestic violence history including arrests, his marital and divorce history, ages of any children under 18 years of age, and all states and countries where the client has lived since age 18.
   • Provide the gathered information to the lady in her native language and secure her written consent to release her Personal Contact Information to that specific U.S. client.

To read the law in its entirety, go to: International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 To read extensive analysis of this law, go to: http://usaimmigrationattorney.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=2

HOW WILL ANASTASIA CLIENTS BE AFFECTED?

Anastasia clients will be affected minimally, as nearly all of Anastasia International’s services are already in compliance with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act, and have been for years. While most of our competitors will now be required to completely overhaul their business models to comply with the law, and will require their clients to submit extensive background information; most Anastasia clients will barely notice the few minor changes we need to make to remain compliant with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act:

For several years now, AnastasiaWeb.com and Russianbrides.com have provided men and women with a fast, reliable, and most importantly, safe way of communicating with each other via email and phone. One of the key features of both our Email Correspondence and Phone Introductory systems has always been the fact that the Personal Contact Information of both men and women is kept strictly confidential. Men and women are free to communicate as they wish, with absolute confidence that their Personal Contact Information will not be revealed to anyone by Anastasia International.
Under the new Federal law, an International Marriage Broker is not obligated to collect Background Information regarding their clients unless they intend to provide their U.S. clients with Personal Contact Information of foreign ladies.
The only service Anastasia provides U.S. clients, which the new law defines as Personal Contact Information, is “the provision of an opportunity for an in-person meeting”. Anastasia’s Group Romance Tours to Russia and Ukraine provide an opportunity to meet hundreds of ladies in person. Therefore….

ONLY TOUR CLIENTS
Will Submit Background Information
To Anastasia International
(See Full Details Below)

Again, to be clear; Anastasia’s Email Correspondence Services and Phone Introductory Services do not provide Personal Contact Information to either the men or the women using the system.

• Email Correspondence and Phone Introductions will function exactly as they do now.
• No Re-registration
• No Background Information
• No Hassle

Since the establishment of our Email Correspondence and Phone Introductory services, the traditional sales of physical mailing addresses have all but disappeared. A very few clients still prefer “snail mail” to email, but in reality, buying physical addresses is an inefficient and essentially “antiquidated” form of International Introductions. The extraordinary effort and expense required to make physical address sales compliant with the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act would drive the price-per-address far beyond its value for the client. Therefore…
Russianbrides.com will terminate sales of physical addresses as of March 4, 2006.

• All tour clients and socials-only clients must fill out a Background Information Form (reprinted below) and return it to Anastasia (with accompanying documentation as required) no later than 30 days prior to departure.
• Anastasia must search the National Sex Offender Public Registry and pertinent State Sex Offender Public Registries for each tour client and socials-only client.
• Anastasia must translate each Background Information Form and Sex Offender Registry Search into Russian language and make these translated forms available to the ladies attending our Socials. (Several binders containing these translated forms will be located at the check-in desk of each Social event.)
• Anastasia must give each lady a copy of the new Federal Pamphlet developed by the Department of Homeland Security, which outlines legal rights and resources for immigrant victims of domestic violence.
• All ladies attending the socials will sign a statement, stating that:
  1. They have had each attending gentleman’s Background Information Forms made available to them in their own language.
  2. They have been given the Federal pamphlet regarding their rights under US law.
  3. They have been given contact information for Anastasia’s Moscow office, so that if they want a copy of a particular gentleman’s background information at a later date, Anastasia can send it to them.
• Anastasia is bound by civil and criminal penalties from improperly disclosing or misusing the personal information gathered in this process.

ANASTASIA TOUR CLIENT
BACKGROUND INFORMATION
As required by the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act Of 2005 [SEC. 833.5 (d) Regulation of International Marriage Broker]

Please provide the following information:
First Name: __________________ Last Name_____________________ Middle Initial _________
Birth Date: ___/___/___
If you answer “YES” to any question below, you are required to provide us detailed documentation, including but not limited to copies of court orders, judgments, convictions and arrest records. You are not required to include marriage certificates, birth certificates or divorce papers.
Yes No Are there now, or have there ever been, at any time, any temporary or permanent civil protection orders, restraining orders, emergency protective orders, or domestic violence orders, issued against you by any court or other governmental authority?
Yes No Have you ever been arrested OR convicted by any Federal, State or Local authority, for homicide, murder, manslaughter, assault, battery, domestic violence, rape, sexual assault, abusive sexual contact, sexual exploitation, incest, child abuse or neglect, torture, trafficking, peonage (compelling persons to perform labor to payoff a debt), holding hostage, involuntary servitude, slave trade, kidnapping, abduction, unlawful criminal restraint, false imprisonment, or stalking?
Yes No Have you ever been arrested OR convicted by any Federal, State or Local authority, for (a) solely, principally, or incidentally engaging in, prostitution? OR (b) a direct or indirect attempt to procure prostitutes or persons for the purpose of prostitution? OR (c) receiving, in whole or in part, proceeds of prostitution?
Yes No Have you ever been arrested OR convicted by any Federal, State or Local authority for any offense(s) related to controlled substances or alcohol?
M S Widowed What is your current marital status?
Yes No Have you previously been married? If "Yes", please fill in the details below for each:
Number How Terminated Termination Date
Yes No Have you at any time previously sponsored an alien to whom you were or became engaged, or to whom you were or became married?
Please list the ages of all of your children, whether biological or adopted, who are under 18 years of age. ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ ________ Please list all States in the United States, and all countries, in which you have resided since you were 18 years of age: a)______________ b)______________ c)______________ d)______________ e)______________ f)______________ g)______________ h)______________ h)______________ j)______________
I certify and attest, under penalty of perjury and false swearing, that I am 18 years of age or older, of sound mind, and that my above BACKGROUND INFORMATION as well as all accompanying documents I have provided, if any, is true, correct and complete, and that should any such information change at any time, I will provide such changes or updates to Anastasia International, Inc..
FURTHERMORE, I authorize Anastasia International, Inc. to release and provide this information and any accompanying documentation along with any subsequent. changes or updates, in any format, to all interested available foreign ladies. I hereby waive any privacy rights from release of this information and I release and hold harmless, and forever discharge, Anastasia International, Inc., its officers, directors, shareholders, employees and agents, from any and all liabilities arising from the release of this information, the accompanying documents, and any changes or updates, and any use thereof.
Dated: ______________________ _________________________ (signed)