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 3 Ways to find, meet and marry your Russian woman: 

 

Method 1

 

  • Method 1:
    Do it yourself, using low-cost, effective and efficient services to start searching for your Russian lady

  • Method 2: 
    Book a romantic Russian tour and meet the lady (or ladies) you select. We will help you to organize your meeting in a secure, pleasant and stress-free environment

  • Method 3: 
    Let professionals do the work for you. Personalized service for busy Professionals. Matchmaking using the traditional way.

 

Did you read our introduction page related to this topic?, if not, please do, it's really necessary to know what's in there, to understand the topics I am describing here. 

Method 1 will explain in general all the possible phases you will encounter during your process from 'finding a Russian woman' till 'marry a Russian woman' and everything that is in between.
 

Step 1:

First describe a profile of the type of woman you are looking for, create a checklist with for you important items.

Before you start browsing through the women's personals, you first should have (written down) a very complete profile about the type of woman you are looking for, including the age range you are looking for. Be realistic and don't look for a 20 year younger woman, even when her ad shows an age range of more than 20 years, it could be not her personal wish. Some agencies that publish women's personals, just do this for her (to improve her chances) and she probably doesn't even know about it. 
Some time ago I interviewed about 10 Russian women about this age-range subject and all women responded that their wish is a man of their own age or with a reasonable age difference. But not more than 10 or maximum 15 years, depending what her or your age is. Unless you are looking for a daughter instead of a wife.

From this (written) profile, you extract the most important highlights that you should always use during the moments you are browsing through Russian women's ads.
The best thing is to create short checklist with items that are important for you, to see such a checklist go to my example questionnaire.

Never only judge a nice photo. Don't make the same mistake as many others did before you, by only picking out the best-looking knock-outs you can find. If you see photos of women in sexy clothes, then it will be only for the reason that the agency where she is published, asked her to do that. They tell her she will have more change to be chosen first, then publishing a photo in just jeans and a T-shirt (as a matter of speaking). For one thing you can be sure, it says nothing about her character. So if you see a nice woman in a sexy, very short, skirt or dress, then keep in mind that this dress is probably not even from herself, but only borrowed and used to make a photo to impress you (and I bet she did impress you!). 
For Russian women counts, it's much more important what is in the 'inside' than how the physical looks are, for men it's often the other way. And don't be afraid, every Russian woman is beautiful, and you will be that too for her, but only if you show it to her.
 

Step 2:

Do not narrow your search by only looking for Russian women who live in big cities. Just for the reason that you think it is practical easier to meet her there then meeting her in a local town.
If traveling to and from her is an important issue for you, then don't make a big deal of this. Flying to Moscow, Kiev or St. Petersburg is easy to do for you. But if she lives for example in Samara (see also our Maps-page) then you need a train or local flight for another extra day traveling. Don't bother about this minor thing, for her it's easy and rather cheap to travel through Russia, so you can suggest, if you visit her, if she wants to go by train or bus to Moscow or any other (easy to reach) city of your choice, and meet you there. Every main city (but also local cities) in Russia are at least connected with railways, and most of the time with local airports too, and traveling by train is not very expensive, even for Russians. My advice is, do not narrow your search by only selecting women who live in Moscow or St. Petersburg, you never know, her parents could live in Vladivostok and you really will have to visit her family now and then. Beside that, women from Moscow or St. Petersburg are quite different (more effected by western life standards) from women from a local city or village. Visit Moscow and some other local city and you will agree that these two cities are two complete different worlds. So, your primary ambition should be to find a Russian woman who fits best with you (and vice versa). For that fact it must not be a major thing for you to bother where she is currently living.
 

Step 3a:

Now first create your own profile online (for free).

Be honest about yourself when creating your profile. Write down as much as possible about yourself, the more you tell about yourself, the more interested women can be in you. The female members also have access to the male members, so it is possible that women contact you first, because of your profile. Also use some good photo's of yourself, at least two, one close-up and one where your whole body is visible. Do not use swimming shorts or half naked body photo's, just some nice casual clothes, do not exaggerate, just be yourself.


Click here to create your profile A new window will be opened, so you will not leave this page.
 

Step 3b:

Start browsing through the database of available women, using a comprehensive search-form, or using the Weekly Women Catalog.

Being at this step I assume you have finished your woman's profile and you have created (for free) your own profile. You know exactly what kind of women you are looking for. You also studied the Russian map and wrote down some preferable countries (Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Latvia, Kazakhstan etc.) and cities that will be suitable for you. Then it's time to talk about 'where' to search for your woman.

If you are looking for a woman who is not yet published before in the free to access database (so you will be probably the first who is contacting her) then I can recommend you the following:

The Russian women catalog:

The Russian Women Catalog is a weekly electronic publication featuring profiles of single Russian and Eastern European women seeking contacts with western men. The ladies we represent have high moral and family values, and seek only serious relationships with the intention of future marriage. All women are currently single, and ready to relocate if they find a suitable partner. The catalog includes photos, bios, phone numbers, postal and email addresses of the featured ladies. You don't have to buy addresses separately.

What is SPECIAL about the The Russian women catalog?

We do NOT sell data that is more than 1 month old. Our data is always RECENT. Every week we publish 50-130 new profiles, so all our ladies are unattached and available. High response rate GUARANTEED.

We supply postal addresses, email addresses and phone numbers - all contact information that we have on our ladies. 800+ profiles for the time of subscription!
We do not practice recurrent billing, our subscription fee is once-off. You can email all new girls for less than $8,- a week! For 4 weeks only subscribers to the Catalog can contact them. After 4 weeks, any member can contact the ladies.


If you register (free) yourself as a member today, then we can offer you (only for a very limited number of days available) 2 special discounts:

If the weekly catalog is a little too much for you to start with, then you first use a comprehensive search form with many selection criteria to browse through the free access database of female women.
Do not look only to photo's, but read also her biography, remember that you are looking for a perfect match, not for a perfect photo.

When you are browsing, you can add your favorites to your profile and view your favorites using the 'favorites' link. Take your time to do this and keep on verifying the biography of these ladies with your checklist. You don't need to everything at once, the system will keep your list of favorites a month.

The next step you can do is a choice of two things:

Before you can order addresses or send an expression of interest, you should upgrade your membership. You can choose for a Gold Membership, Platinum Membership, or just sell single addresses.
 


Step 4:

Your first introduction letter: We recommend to translate your first letter because Russian ladies struggle with reading English letters even if they know the language fairly well. It will ensure she will read your letter, and understand everything you were intending to tell her.

Now we have come to the most important part of your first contact.

Your first (introduction) letter has the aim to give the women, you are writing, a reason to write you back in such a way she is really interested in you. This means you have to impress her with your profile and simple (but effective) biography. This is not easy!

By experience I know that many men, who have selected a lot of women's profiles, write a very simple standard letter like this; "Hi I am John, and I live in America. I like your photo and profile. I have a house, a car, a cat and a nice job, I like to know you better, if you are interested, please write me back". Then they copy this incredible impressive letter 20 times and send it away and expect that the next day their email-inbox will be loaded with longing woman.

After some days or weeks, these men take contact with the agency where they bought these addresses and start to complain that none of the women he wrote, is writing him back. Are you surprised? I am not, and probably the agency will tell you the same.
Do you really expect that these women will respond letters like that? If you have read the all our information on our website then you should know better.


So, what's the secret? Well, there is not really a secret, but you must know that a Russian woman only will select a man for his personality and human character. She wants to see if there is a possible 'match' between you and her. Russian women in general, don't select men from only picture (in contrast what most men do!). 
This means you will have to write a very good description about the person you are, you social life, your work, your hobbies, the way you spend your free times and something about your character. Only use simple basic English, because it's important she must be able to understand what you are writing. The woman who receives your letter has to create a first impression of you and she will try to determine if you 'could' be the man to stay the rest of her life with. I know this is not easy to do, especially when you are not a good 'writer'. Don't bother, Russian women are not looking for 'novel writers' but a new life partner. But I guess you know what I mean. 

Our suggestion is to use our recommended translation service that will translate your introduction letter and re-write it in 'Russian'. You can choose for adequate translation (for formal matters) or creative translation which are used for non-formal (introduction) letters.
And by doing this you also show her that you serious want to put effort to impress here, and she will respect you for doing that.

Why do you need to translate your first letter to a woman/women?

You send it in response to her profile, or as an answer to her response on your ad, and the most important reason why you write it - it's to introduce yourself and let her know you better.
 

Click here to read more about translation of your introduction letter

 


Step 5:

Women you contacted (by your message of interest or your introduction letter) start sending you responses, what to do next?

From this moment you start to feel excited. Your first letter had success and women start to write you back and tell you that they are interested in you.
From now on, it's difficult for me to use one example. It is 'you' who has to select the most favorite women who are writing you back. They already showed you their first interest in you and depending on what they are writing you, you have to make a selection from those who are still interesting for you. This can be from only one woman to five or less, depending on your choice. At least the next step is again yours. After selecting your favorite(s), you have to write another letter in which you (for example) first answers their questions to you. (Important: read carefully if she is also answering your specific questions). But first you start of course with a 'Thank you for your respond to my letter etc....(or something like that), then you will first answer her questions to her (don't skip any question from her!), after that you can ask more about her, ask anything you like, but keep your decency and respect to her. Ask question which are important for you to know, don't start talking about how the weather is there, or other superficial questions, just try to know each other better, because from all the answers you get or all the answers you write her, you both will come to a certain point that you are thinking of meeting each other.

A very important next step in your second letter to her is to convince her, why you are the right man for her and why she can be the right woman for for you. You must try to explain her that she made the right decision to write back to you. Of course you must use a less 'arrogant' way as I am expressing now, but I am sure you know what I mean.
From now on the correspondence is in your hands and you decide how long and with how many women you continue your correspondence, before you (or both) decide to meet each other. It's up to you if you want to meet just one woman, or more than one women, just because of the fact you still don't know which one will be the best future partner for you.

Ok, let's say you are corresponding a while with one or more women. And you have heard or read about the possibility of dating scams. I suppose this will at least cross your mind and you will ask yourself, is this lady real? 
While corresponding with her I can give you some quick tips:
Ask her postal address and her phone number (or a phone number from a relative, parents, brother, sister, etc. if she doesn't own one by herself). I know many men who are calling their girlfriends at their parents, friends or relatives (I did the same). Using a phone to communicate with each other can sometimes make things much more comfortable and easier too. 
Another important tip is, no matter how much you already 'trust' this woman, never send her any money if she asking for it, but also if she is not asking for it. In this stadium of your relationship, money should not be an issue for both of you. The only one who probably will spend money, during this stadium of the process (for sending flowers or a small gift) is only you. In fact, just don't talk about money at all.


If you want to read more about this infamous aspect of international relationship, please visit our information topic: Dating Scams


We also suggest to take a look at the one and only Anti-Scam Guide.

If one of those describes your situation, I think it would be beneficial for you to read this Guide -  not to be sorry later. (Every week I receive letters from men who say they would not make such expensive mistakes if they had read the Guide beforehand.) Click here for the Anti Scam Guide


There are many ways to do a background check on the one you are corresponding with.
If you really want to know if a specific woman is real, then I suggest strongly to visit this page: 
We can provide a BACKGROUND CHECK on your RUSSIAN partner, Internet friend, Date, or Potential Mate

 


Step 6:

Planning your first meeting

First of all, for American men, don't think you can invite your girlfriend to visit you in the US as a visitor or tourist, she will never get a visa for this. Only under special conditions there could be a very small change to get this. Our advice is, don't even try, it is a waist of time (and probably money too). Also do not trust any local (Russian) travel agencies who try to convince you that they can arrange a visa for her, because they use illegal methods or they are scam.

So it's evident that you will meet your girlfriend (or a few women) in her country. If you are visiting just one woman, then I suggest you visit our topic "First Meeting" before you continue with this topic.

If you will meet your girlfriend Russia then it is important you have made all the necessary arrangements. like visa, hotel or apartment, car with a driver, interpreter.

You can meet your girlfriend (or more than one) in two different ways:

Do it all by yourself meeting:

 

You can apply for two kind of visa, one is the so called private (home stay) visa, that means that after you send the necessary documents to your girlfriend, she has to apply for an invitation. The first time she will do this, will take about 2 month's before this invitation is ready to be send to you. For your first meeting this is not a real efficient option, so we advice you to obtain the usual tourist-visa. 

But before you can apply for a tourist visa at the Russian Embassy or Consulate in your area, you need to have a hotel voucher, and an official invitation from the hotel or Russian tourist company. If you book a hotel in Russia, only choose a hotel with visa-services, this means that they can provide you an official invitation and send it to you by fax.

Here are some Visa, hotel and travel services:

To obtain a tourist visa, click here for the do-it-by-yourself way, direct at the Russian Embassy or Consulate in your area.


In case you will meet more than one woman (for example three):

First it's important to setup a time schedule. This time schedule should give you the opportunity to meet these 3 women (separately!) during your stay in Russia. To do this correct your need to make notes of the following rules:

In this example you have to travel for at least 20 to 27 days (2 times 2 days travel to/from US/Russia, time difference for example New York and Moscow is 8 hours), then 9 days to meet each woman and finally 1 week (or 2) for your chosen lady.
Of course this is only a static example of how to arrange your time schedule. But it gives you an impression.

If you decide to meet just one woman, then this time schedule will be much easier of course.

before you go to the next step, please visit our page 'First Meeting" too for additional information.


 

Step 7:

After your first meeting, what is next?

If your meeting didn't work out at all then you have to start again from step 4. Don't feel too down-hearted if this first meeting experience didn't work out, it really happens many times and still these men continue their 'search' for their future wife. At least you are more experienced now and will certainly have learned from this first experience. 

But if you both decided to go on with each other, in other words, you want to marry her then you have to think about the following actions.
From now on I will use an example for American men who wants to marry or bring their Fiancée to the US. (Visitors from other countries,  visit our Visa & Immigration page with addresses to other countries immigration resources).

You can do two things:

The visa process is a pretty complex process (if you decide to do it all by yourself) and you only can do it one time right. 
We advise you to use a special visa and immigration service to support you. We have a width choice of any kind of visas to enter the US. Please visit our specialized topic (this page will open in a new window, so you will not leave this chapter). For more information about visas & immigration, read the different procedures you have to follow and the time schedule that is connected to these procedures. In our Visa & Immigration page you will find links to US Government Immigration sites that give explanation about this procedure.

Also visit our page '5 steps to marry a Russian woman (in Russia)' which has its original source from the US Embassy in Moscow.

Note: If you marry your fiancée in her country, the process to let her enter the US is called "adjustment of status". This takes much longer then the fiancée visa.

The main requirements for a fiancée visa are :

After your fiancée receives her K1-visa, you both have ninety (90) days to marry each other. If this time is not enough for both of you, then she has to go back to Russia and you both have to start all over again.

You will agree, that there is a lot of information about K1-Fiancée visa and immigration to the US. In fact sometimes too many information to understand very clear what you really have to do, if you want to do this all by yourself. However there are enough examples of US men who succeeded in this. But you also can risk a lot, if you do things wrong, then it is sometimes difficult or even impossible to recover any mistakes in this complex Government procedure. 

To read about another very popular K1-fiancee service, please visit Immigration Support Services. Now, no matter what your immigration needs are: K-1 fiancée visa, alien relative (or spouse), student or work visas, illegal alien status, U.S. INS immigration petitions for any purpose...fast and affordable legal advice is now available.

But if you still want to do it all by yourself then there only one source that will give you the correct information:

The one and only source with the correct information and procedures about US Fiancée visa's is the official US Government site: US Citizenship and Immigration Services, click here for all details about How Do I Bring My Fiancée to the United States?

I also suggest to visit forums about immigration to the US, it is always good to read about other's experiences.
 


Summary

 

Using fast and reliable services can avoid stress and time consuming actions. There are many men who tried the do-it-by-yourself-way by using so-called free dating sites and spend a lot of money (and too much time!) that was unnecessary and after these experiences they finally started to use fast and reliable services. The risk of dating scam, is very little to zero (if you choose our recommended agency). This fact must be very valuable for you, think about all those men who send money to their beloved woman and never saw one cent, or even the woman again. Would you take that risk? 

This is the end of the example of "how to find and marry a Russian woman', Method 1.

Now take a look at Method 2