Hello again from Gary. Here’s the promised “tidbit” installment to my last post.
I wrote in my January 28 post that convenient travel arrangements are critical when it comes to bringing your Russian bride to America. The reason why this is critical is because of visa requirements and the need for you to bring her into America at a city as close to your home as possible. This is because the first city she lands in is where she will go through American immigration processing. I wrote about this more fully in my November 15, 2006 post.
So without good travel connections, you may not be able to achieve the ideal place for her to make first entry into the country.
And the other issue about visa requirements - - If you fly with her, which I suggest you do, you will have two different nation’s passports to plan for when it comes to entering different countries to make airline connections. If you stick with major international airlines and arrange to stop only in major western European countries on your way back to America, your U.S. passport will probably free you of any visa requirements.** But for your Russian bride the story is different and you need to check what any country you stop in requires in the way of an entry visa for her even if your’re just in transit for flight connections. This whole situation can get to be very complicated depending on which countries are involved in your trip.
But if you accept my suggestion to search for your Russian bride in the Russian Federation or Ukraine, you can solve the travel issues of visas and ideal first entry. Here’s how.
