REPEAL INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKER LAW
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SUBJECT: REPEAL OF THE INTERNATIONAL MARRIAGE BROKER LAW, H.R. 3402, P.L. No. 109-162, TITLE VIII, SUBTITLE D, WHICH VIOLATES MY FREE SPEECH AND FREE ASSOCIATION, PRIVACY RIGHTS, RIGHT TO COURT AND MARRY, AND LIMITS MY ROMANCE CHOICES ABROAD AND IS ANTI-MALE AND ANTI-COUPLE.
Dear Congressman, Congresslady and Senator:
I am a U.S. citizen gentlemen, and reside in the United States, or am a foreign national woman, or am a friend, supporter or ally. I have read and heard about the passage of "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005" (IMBRA), H.R. 3402, Public Law No. 109-162, Title VIII, Subtitle D.
I am very concerned about the practical consequences of this law, which was passed with only a voice vote without any hearings or testimony or statistical evidence to support it, at the last minute just before the Holiday recess, after being tacked onto the back of other important legislation, namely, The Violence Against Women and Justice Dept. Reauthorization Act.
Did you vote for this International Marriage Broker law? Did you mean to vote for it?
As a single gentleman, foreign woman, or friend, supporter or ally, very interested in romance options outside my country for love, courtship and marriage, this law plainly violates the rights of U.S. citizens, and unfairly and improperly restricts my opportunities.
For me as a U.S. citizen gentleman, just to say "Hi" to a woman from another country through a legitimate romance agency or tour company, I am now forced to supply any legitimate romance agency or tour company all my police record information, domestic violence records, and much more (even if I have no such record). My free speech and privacy rights are being grossly violated, to say the least.
Why am I and other single American gentlemen being branded as "criminal abusers" under this law? Is there any supporting statistical or empirical evidence that incidences of serious abuse and death of foreign national women are any higher than that of domestic women, to justify this law?
This law requires that before "International Marriage Brokers" release a womans contact information to a person, they must provide her with a copy of the background collected on that person in her primary language, advise her of the rights and resources available to domestic violence victims in the U.S. in written form, and obtain her written consent to release her contact information.
It is obvious that romance companies, which have signed up a large volume of hundreds and even thousands of sincere women abroad seeking sincere and good-faith U.S. gentlemen spouses, will NOT be able to complete this kind of prohibitively costly and physically impossible commercial task. They will go out of business or go overseas or offshore. My choices as a U.S. citizen consumer or foreign woman consumer will be severely curtailed.
As a foreign woman interested in romance options with sincere U.S. citizen gentlemen, I know that there are thousands of happy and successful inter-cultural marriages, many among my friends, neighbors and even family. With the passage of this law, I and my friends and female family members will have even less options in my country, where there is higher domestic violence and a less desirable living condition and future.
If the purpose of the law is to provide some abuse protection for immigrant women, then that purpose is more than adequately served anyway by other less onerous and violative provisions of the law which say that the U.S. Embassy in the woman's home country will conduct an intensive criminal and domestic violence background check on the gentleman and supply her with all documentation available on him in her primary language, together with domestic violence protection information, BEFORE she secures a visa to visit the U.S.
The International Marriage Broker provisions are not necessary and only unjustifiably violate U.S. citizen rights of free speech and privacy, and a foreign woman's romance options and opportunities.
I urge you to re-consider this unnecessary and pernicious law as it pertains to International Marriage Brokers, and vote to repeal it.
Thank you.
Dear Congressman, Congresslady and Senator:
I am a U.S. citizen gentlemen, and reside in the United States, or am a foreign national woman, or am a friend, supporter or ally. I have read and heard about the passage of "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005" (IMBRA), H.R. 3402, Public Law No. 109-162, Title VIII, Subtitle D.
I am very concerned about the practical consequences of this law, which was passed with only a voice vote without any hearings or testimony or statistical evidence to support it, at the last minute just before the Holiday recess, after being tacked onto the back of other important legislation, namely, The Violence Against Women and Justice Dept. Reauthorization Act.
Did you vote for this International Marriage Broker law? Did you mean to vote for it?
As a single gentleman, foreign woman, or friend, supporter or ally, very interested in romance options outside my country for love, courtship and marriage, this law plainly violates the rights of U.S. citizens, and unfairly and improperly restricts my opportunities.
For me as a U.S. citizen gentleman, just to say "Hi" to a woman from another country through a legitimate romance agency or tour company, I am now forced to supply any legitimate romance agency or tour company all my police record information, domestic violence records, and much more (even if I have no such record). My free speech and privacy rights are being grossly violated, to say the least.
Why am I and other single American gentlemen being branded as "criminal abusers" under this law? Is there any supporting statistical or empirical evidence that incidences of serious abuse and death of foreign national women are any higher than that of domestic women, to justify this law?
This law requires that before "International Marriage Brokers" release a womans contact information to a person, they must provide her with a copy of the background collected on that person in her primary language, advise her of the rights and resources available to domestic violence victims in the U.S. in written form, and obtain her written consent to release her contact information.
It is obvious that romance companies, which have signed up a large volume of hundreds and even thousands of sincere women abroad seeking sincere and good-faith U.S. gentlemen spouses, will NOT be able to complete this kind of prohibitively costly and physically impossible commercial task. They will go out of business or go overseas or offshore. My choices as a U.S. citizen consumer or foreign woman consumer will be severely curtailed.
As a foreign woman interested in romance options with sincere U.S. citizen gentlemen, I know that there are thousands of happy and successful inter-cultural marriages, many among my friends, neighbors and even family. With the passage of this law, I and my friends and female family members will have even less options in my country, where there is higher domestic violence and a less desirable living condition and future.
If the purpose of the law is to provide some abuse protection for immigrant women, then that purpose is more than adequately served anyway by other less onerous and violative provisions of the law which say that the U.S. Embassy in the woman's home country will conduct an intensive criminal and domestic violence background check on the gentleman and supply her with all documentation available on him in her primary language, together with domestic violence protection information, BEFORE she secures a visa to visit the U.S.
The International Marriage Broker provisions are not necessary and only unjustifiably violate U.S. citizen rights of free speech and privacy, and a foreign woman's romance options and opportunities.
I urge you to re-consider this unnecessary and pernicious law as it pertains to International Marriage Brokers, and vote to repeal it.
Thank you.
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Hal G
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William N M
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Ronald H
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Steven G
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- I understand the 'protect women' concept, but why punish us with a limit. Why should we be told 3x in our entire life is all we can find someone abroad. There are cultural and moral value differences that make these relationships wonderful, and often after marriage permanant. Why take this away and force a gentleman to have to chose someone that is not a prefect match just based on thier location.
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Ken V
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Doug G
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- there no way this can work, you cant police an american company and let the foreign ones run rampant. it just doesnt work.
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Stephen G
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Richard D
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Gary N
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Edward B C
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Robert S
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- Gross abuse of government power!!!
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Jeffery H
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- To be brief, this is really unfair since love should know no boundary.
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richard j
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Joseph A
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Brian E
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Louis S
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Mario L
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- What's going to stop men from contacting potential overseas mates on free email sites(real women or not) NOTHING
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Byron M
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- I met my wife through one of these sites and we have been happily married for over 16 years. It has also allowed me to gain a greater appreciation for the countries outside of our borders. There is a large number of couples we associate with that met that way and most have worked out more succesfully than marriages made in the US, percentage wise. Not only that, but this law violates the Constitutional Guarantees afforded to us as citizens of this country and should be immediately recinded.
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Robert I
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Natasha S
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- I do not know any other country in the world that abuses the rights of its taxpaying citizens in the name of "protecting" the rights of its foreigners. Isn't it absurd and pervert or you do not see it this way? It is no wonder that Russian ladies prefer to marry men from European countries or Australia. Unlike American men they are not portrayed by their governments as predators and abusers. So, any reasonable woman would draw a conclusion that only American men are violent. What kind of government would legitimize the Ugly American image in its laws! It is really a shame and absolutely not true. The law is misleading and hurts the image of the nation. It should be repealed immediately before the damage became too big to repair. http://www.encount.com
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Ray A
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William D. H
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- 24 years ago I met and married my Filipino Bride. We will have 25 years of marriage in 2007. We have two wonderful children. She is now a senior Revenue Agent with the IRS. This law is unnecessary.
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Wayne P
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Melvin M
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John C
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- I think it is an unfair law their trying to pass,we should be able to choose anyone from any counrty we want,and not have to jump through hoops to do so!
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James M
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Gordon Weldon S
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- Too much blood has been shed over 200 years to allow this country to become more socialist every day!
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Paul O
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Walt M
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david h
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Luis J
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- I don't travel and don't like clubs and bars. This is my only way of meeting someone from another country. Thanks for trying to take that away.
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Reginald W
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- I think that the international dating agencies gives both individuals the right to choose for themselves who they would like to meet and possibly marry. I don't think that most men would go out of their way to meet and marry a woman from another country so that they can abuse or mistreat them.
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Kevin N
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Winslow M
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raphael m
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- i am very happy with my columbia wife that would that would have been impossible with this new la w
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Brandon Keating S
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- The law is taking away certain freedoms... Maybe they should start screening people who want to buy a computer.
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Tesfu D
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- I would have never met my american wife if it werent for the internet. And another thing, what about screening the people who use yahoo messenger and making them go through leaps and bounds. You know how many sick child molesters are online meeting children these days? And congress is worried about a few criminals who brought people overseas for marraige.. CRAZY... BALEGY ASEDABE
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John R
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- Poorly thought out new law!
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Herman L. Dickey J
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- Dear, us goverment, I 've been married twice in my life once as a very young man of 21, my wife at the time went to school became a nurse out grew me and divoiced me, I finished supporting my then young children and also trying to pull my self up by the boot straps, 9-10yrs latter I tried marriage again only this time to make a wrong choice, I am now 55yrs old and want to be married, I want to try women of other nations who seem to have a much better understanding of the word committment, I am sorry that you seem to think that all men in the us are evil.
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Ken H
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- Patriot Act, legal eavesdropping, now this. Why are our elected officials so bent on taking away our freedoms and snooping into the lives of decent citizens?? Our freedom is being taken away while our soldiers are dying to make another country free in a war that is not backed by the American people or backed by any solid intelligence. Why couldn't we have just started with a few simple rule and regulations for agencies to weed out the scam agencies and protect the legitimate ones. How soon before we all have to BOW to BIG BROTHER when so many of our elected officials who pass these laws are actually the most corrupt citizens? They are supposed to be setting a GOOD example for the youth of our nation but instead they are fueled by greed and self serving desires.
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Lawrence E D
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- This law will not stop me from marrying the woman I love as well as any other law in the future. I hope this is not the beginning of a slide down a slippery slope into fascism in the United States. Your autonomy as free human beings is at stake here in the United States of America.
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Peter Canaday M
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- This law attempts to legislate the destruction of fundamental constitutional rights and should be vigorously resisted.
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Donald M
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Wayne M F
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- It's almost election time,I know who I won't be voteing for
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Mark D
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