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USCIS Funded Research…
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Posted by: Knight_Kadosh

USCIS Funded Research…

Although this is a very long research article funded by the USCIS, I found it quite interesting and thought it was worth sharing, below are a few abbreviated highlights of that research. The link for the entire research article has been provided at the conclusion of, said highlights. Like most research, I am sure we will not all agree with their conclusions.

~Success Rates for International Services~
In a survey done for this report we sent e-mails to 102 of the services and received replies from 28. We asked what percentage of their female clients married U.S. men.

Based on these data, we may estimate that 4 percent of the 100,000 to 150,000 women seeking U.S. husbands through international services find them; that is, "mail-order bride" and e-mail correspondence services result in 4,000 to 6,000 marriages between U.S. men and foreign brides each year.

This figure, 4,000 to 6,000, represents an increase from previous estimates (e.g., the estimate of 2,000 to 3,500 given by Kadohata, 1990) due, no doubt, to the recent increase in both e-mail correspondence services and the agencies specializing in Russian and Ukrainian women.

~Impact on U.S. Marriages~
According to data supplied by the U.S. Census Bureau, there were 2,395,000 marriages in the U.S. in the 12 months ending June 1997 (and 1,154,000 divorces in the same period). The 4,000 to 6,000 marriages involving international services represent, then, a tiny portion (.021 percent) of the women who marry U.S. men.

It is interesting to note that, based largely on data provided by the agencies themselves (along with the Commission on Filipinos Overseas report cited above), marriages arranged through these services would appear to have a lower divorce rate than the nation as a whole, fully 80 percent of these marriages having lasted over the years for which reports are available.

~This research was funded under purchase order COW-8-P-0233 from the Immigration and Naturalization Service~
http://uscis.gov/graphics/aboutus/r...ies/mobappa.htm