Trip to Ukraine!

[Mike]

... in response to Re: Re: A week?  You're neglecting....., posted by Rando on Feb 20, 2003

The k-1 visa can be extended without much problem after she gets it and stays in her country. Once you send the application in the rest is out of your hands unless you want it canceled.
Mike

[Jski]

... in response to WOW Thanks!, posted by dandy on Feb 19, 2003

....don't let them get to you.  In between all the off topic, strange posts and mud slinging, there really is some good nuggets of info here.

When you go, please post a trip report....

[tfcrew]

... in response to Trip to Ukraine!, posted by dandy on Feb 19, 2003

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Also mentioned below by our retired airline pilot poster..
You really won't/don't need them.  By nature, they are heady, pushy, and are meddlers.
A lawyer mentality if you will.
YOU are the tutor..you control the vertical..horizontal etc.
Good luck to you and your soon to be new family.
It's true as mentioned below....my wife opens products and smells them ..(deodorant etc.)...Why not?
Karl

PS However it may be necessary to translate full English at a wedding/marriage ceremony. By then, we here, had found a  friend.. Ukranian/American high school girl to help at our wedding

[CS767]

... in response to A brief word about stateside "trans..., posted by tfcrew on Feb 19, 2003

Thanks for that post,I understand better.

[mudd]

... in response to Trip to Ukraine!, posted by dandy on Feb 19, 2003

you are already filing a visa after one meeting? hope you know what you are doing. if you too dont work out, and she has to go back, i hope you give her some money until she finds a new job. at least you are not getting married there and doing the spousal visa. hope it works!

[CS767]

... in response to Trip to Ukraine!, posted by dandy on Feb 19, 2003


My friend Fred's fiance, Elana and her son just arrived from Krivoy Rog,Ukraine a couple of days ago and I called him on his cell to see how it was going.He told me he was shopping in Walmart and was in a delima with them.They were looking at the toothpaste and couldn't decide which one to buy so they decided to smell the toothpaste and make her decision.First laugh I got.Next he told me she was astounded this morning by the washing machine and the dryer,she Knew the dryer wouldnt get the clothes dry.They had to shop for a couple of weeks worth of things and the boy asked if it would last 6 months.He noted that what Fred paid for the groceries his Mother would have to work for months to pay for it.Then they were using one of those fancy translaters and the answer ,I guess ,came out in the Kings English and she got angry about the answer that came out.I will keep you posted on the on going saga of these first few days.I just love all this and it will be a taste of some reality for some and  "old hat"for others.Can anyone else inject some humor without hurting the feelings of some of the ladies that read these posts?Still laughing---
 We just don't know how really different we live here.I would love to hear some of the superstition thing people have run across.

[Jski]

... in response to Re: Trip to Ukraine!, posted by CS767 on Feb 19, 2003

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[LP]

... in response to Trip to Ukraine!, posted by dandy on Feb 19, 2003

.....Although you won't like 'em, here's mine: Are you going back? Or are you gonna file a K1 and marry a woman you've met only once and spent what, a week or two with? Are you gonna go through this entire process and dramatically change the lives of everyone involved based on that?

Well thats just dandy....

[yoe]

... in response to Words of wisdom....., posted by LP on Feb 19, 2003

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I like to look are skwerls.........
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/lovey/
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/
http://www.scarysquirrel.org/insane/insane2.html
Enjoy.........
xoxo
Joe

[Globetrotter]

... in response to Words of wisdom....., posted by LP on Feb 19, 2003

Sure sounds like that's his plan.  So..........hopefully he's thought about all of this, and has a prenup in Russian also...just in case things don't work out.

[LP]

... in response to Re: Words of wisdom....., posted by Globetrotter on Feb 19, 2003

...He won't be different than many others who've taken that road, it'll just be another crap shoot. Doesn't mean it'll blow up, just not my way. Funny though, guy writes to a chick 7 months, comes back ready to file a K1 and then decides to ask about cultural differences. Wonder what else he's not up to speed on. Seems backwards to me, I researched everything for a month before I even started looking. I wanted to know exactly what I was gettin into because it could've stopped me. In fact, there are times I wish it had. ;-)

[yoe]

... in response to Good luck to him..., posted by LP on Feb 19, 2003

how about those millions of guys who banged a girl after a night at the bar and got hitched........hell most of our parents probably made similar mistakes........I know a 40+ guy who has been with only 2 women------ever........now even thoug studs like you and I may feel that he has missed out on something............maybe there are times when nature does find a way.......I do not know! But at times I do have to look up and say, "what now God?"......but you neve answer lp.......haha
joe
:OB

[LP]

... in response to common now big papa........, posted by yoe on Feb 19, 2003

...but our parents lived in a different age than we do, at least mine did. This guy is obviously an expert at 29 years old. I bet he's never even been marrried or raked over, he sure acts like that. If he has, all the more amazing. Your reply to him makes perfect sense, he's got some learnin to do before he marrys anyone. I could poke a million holes in his arguments but whats the point? It's his life, he can do what he wants.

My opinion is that time and emotion is of the utmost essence to him, another case of a guy with too big a need to fill to think straight. Or simply another example of The POB in action. Good luck to him, I'll bet anything he'll be married more than once in his life.

Btw, I have a friend who is 38 and until recently had *never* been with a woman. Hell, he lived with his mother until a few months ago. He thinks he's perfectly normal but trust me, he's very far from it. I'll give you one guess in what he's all fired up about doing now....

[Jski]

... in response to Yer right...., posted by LP on Feb 19, 2003

"Btw, I have a friend who is 38 and until recently had *never* been with a woman. Hell, he lived with his mother until a few months ago. He thinks he's perfectly normal but trust me, he's very far from it. I'll give you one guess in what he's all fired up about doing now.... "

Ummm, becoming a pilot???   j/k :-)  easy there.

[LP]

... in response to Re: Yer right...., posted by Jski on Feb 19, 2003

.....no more chocolate for you! ;-)

Globe is right, tact is not my best quality but I do have the guy's best interest at heart. You be right too, it's his life and he's made the decision. Good luck to him, let his chips fall where they may. Besides, me thinks your current situation precludes objectivity about any of this. ;-)