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Good point! Do we know how long they have lived in that house? If they have only recently moved there, maybe lawn care simply hasn’t been a priority yet.

Maybe Andrei has never mowed a lawn and doesn’t know how? I have never mowed a lawn, I’m not even sure if we own a mower, we have a landscaping company mowing our lawns. Chantel doesn’t think it’s fair that she would have to pay if Pedro used public assistance? What does she think sponsoring a foreign spouse means? Does she think it would be fair for the taxpayers to support her imported spouse? I think Chantel is a very attractive woman, but she is starting to look too fake for my taste. Too much hair extensions, lash extensions, makeup and body-con clothing. She was prettier in her first season. How is Nicole planning to pay for her and Azan’s Grenada trip? Was that mentioned? I know I’m probably alone with this, but I kind of like Father Kalani’s beard. Father Nicole’s beard is a different matter.

5 Years. They had their 5th Wedding Anniversary in October 2018. If after 5 years in the US she still doesn't know that you show up on time for a party in your honor, she either doesn't give a damn, or she is plain stupid. I call BS that she didn't know she was expected to be on time. Living in a foreign country doesn't mean you have to forget your culture, but it does mean you have to try to integrate and learn the language, customs, common laws etc. as best as you can. Next time I mess up I'm trying the "in my culture..." route and see if I get a pass. Also next time my husband doesn't agree with me, I will start crying that I left my country, my family and friends and the least he can do is let me have my way. I really can't think why I haven't ever done that 🙂

The way I understood it, was that everybody, men and women, were there for about two hours before the women-only baby shower was scheduled to start. That is why Russ and the other men left as soon as Pao finally showed up - they had already been there for two hours and were now running late for their Tee-time. Pao apparently decided to skip the time with the whole group of family and friends and only showed up in time for the women-only gift giving part.

Nothing says wanting to make amends as showing up 2 hours late for a party organized by the in-laws in your honor. As always Pao was dressed very inappropriately. She looked absolutely ridiculous. I used to think that Russ is a nice guy, but have come to the conclusion that he's just a doormat for Pao's Louboutin-clad feet. I'm getting tired of them. Please don't bring them back for yet another season. It feels as if they have been on almost every season since day one. Enough.

Does anybody know if she has any kind of job training and what she did in Brazil? I think only the US Citizen is paid. The foreign spouse has no right to work and earn an income in the US until they get an immigrant-visa/ green card . Paying foreign nationals involves a whole lot of hurdles and hassle and makes tax season much more complicated.

I agree that living in a housing development on the fringes of town requires transportation. Question, why are most of the foreign fiances not able to drive? You don’t need a US license to drive here and you don’t need an immigrant visa/green card. I came here with a 1-year tourist visa (I didn’t think that 3 months under the Visa Waiver program was enough time for me to decide if I wanted to live here). Within a couple of days of arriving, I bought, insured and drove a car with my German DL. Perfectly legal. I did get a US DL after a while, but I don’t remember if I still had a non-immigrant tourist visa or the immigrant investment visa at that time. The only reason I can think of why Larissa and others are not able to drive here is because they don’t have a DL in their country either. Of course, poor Larissa would have had to share the car with Debbie and Coltee

Together with her friend Carmen, Larissa wants to sell her own activewear line: Carmen narrates: "Larissa told me she was trying to buy clothes to go to the gym." This, Carmen says, was "when she noticed the lack of vibrant colors and feminine designs in the activewear clothing in the US." Soon," she (Larissa) assures fans. "It will be ready and you guys can get my looks." I was a bit surprised that Larissa didn’t see any vibrant or feminine designs. Where did she look? I assume they don’t have the intention to design and manufacture their own line (that would take substantial capital), but rather sell generic items under their label. I just don’t see that there is an actual lack of fun and/or feminine active wear, or that Larissa has enough star-power to attract women to buy from her to “get her looks”. Kate Hudson she is not. I really don’t want to belittle her desire to start a business, (it’s what I did), but I seriously doubt that this will get her the big house and Jaguar that she wants. As far a her mental health is concerned, I truly feel sorry for her. Unfortunately the US is not a great country to have a condition that needs treatment unless you have good insurance, or sufficient money.

I’m an immigrant (not K-1, I did an Investment Visa) and I think that this last group of couples has made a mockery of the process. I’m in complete agreement with the posters who said that not all immigrants need to be highly skilled, but I feel that they should be highly motivated to work hard. I just don’t see that motivation in Larissa. The American Dream is not to become a millionaire. For most immigrants it’s the opportunity to work hard, to send their children to school so they can have good jobs and a life that’s better and easier than their parents’ life. Does anybody really see Larissa doing whatever it takes to support herself and not be a burden to society? Why should Larissa (or Fernanda) be allowed to stay in the US? They came on a K-1 Visa to get married. If that marriage fails within a couple of months, I see no reason why that shouldn’t cancel the immigration process. They should be allowed to re-apply for immigration on the same basis as other hopeful immigrants; If they don’t have what it takes to be allowed to immigrate, then so be it. Having been married for a few weeks, even to Coltee, isn’t enough to earn the right to stay. The K-1 Visa was never meant for Americans to pick a fiance on the internet, import them and then figure out if you get along well enough to marry. It’s meant for people who already have a relationship, who know they want to marry and the 90 days are just to do the wedding preparations etc.

I have US and German citizenships and passports. I travel to Germany and Italy 3-4 times per year and leave and re-enter the US with my American passport and enter and leave Germany with my German passport (in Italy they don’t seem to care which passport I use) In the past I have tried to make things easier by just traveling with my US passport and when I entered Germany with my US passport, the German immigration officer asked me if I have my German passport with me and when I said no, told me that in future I should enter with my German passport. So now I travel with both.

I'm from Germany and it used to be that in Europe Protestants usually wore the wedding ring on the left hand and Catholics wore it on the right. That has changed over the last few decades and now wedding rings are worn either way, personal choice. Seeing that Brazil is predominantly Catholic, maybe wearing the ring on the right hand is what Larissa is more familiar with and she changed it later to fit in with the American custom of wearing the ring on the left.

*Waving at Pityfree* I’m in Colorado as well and yes, we do need AC.

I don't think Leida is wealthy. I don't believe she lives in the "home" she showed. As a matter of fact, I think that place isn't a home at all but a church hall / community center. I've never seen any home, leave alone a high-end home "decorated" with random items all along the perimeter of a room. That's an overflow area of a church. The kitchen was very church-function-hall looking too and the woman who looked slightly irritated when Leida came in videotaping, was probably annoyed because Leida was supposed to help and was putzing around instead. Look at all the random stuff on the shelves and on the floor including two clothes racks. If you want to show off the mansion you supposedly live in, wouldn't you take footage of the living areas, maybe your bedroom, the park-like garden....rather than a storage area?

The couples are on the show voluntarily. For all we know, some of them are begging to be featured in more than one season. Why do they want to be on a reality show? Money, "fame", future opportunities? I neither know nor care to be honest. Fact is they agree to show part of their lives to anybody who cares to watch. Some of them (Paola and Anfisa for example) go further and plaster their social media sites with photoshopped pics of their butts and boobs. Why? Presumably because they want the attention. If they can't handle the fact that not everybody applauds them, their motivations, their choices, they can easily return to obscurity. Stop being on the show, set your social media pages to private and in a month or two nobody will remember your name. They don't need to read any forum where the show, and by extension the cast members, is discussed. I never comment on their social media pages, but others do and to accuse anybody who has a negative comment of bullying, or being jealous (ha!), is simply deflection. Their "fame" is only due to people like us being momentarily interested in them.

Loren is such a drama queen. Having a mini-meltdown regarding the "stigma" attached to the K-1 Visa process and the unfairness of it all. Maybe Jorge and Anfisa got the visa faster than Loren and Alexei because they spent several months together traveling and could show having a relationship ? I'm not sure how much time Loren and Alexei spent together before applying. Maybe Loren dealt with an immigration officer who wasn't in a good mood. Life isn't fair. As far as the "stigma" is concerned: You don't need to go around and tell everybody that your husband came on a K-1 Visa. As I've mentioned before, I'm foreign born and in almost 25 years in the US nobody has ever asked me what kind of visa I came with. I've been asked where I'm from and then usually they proceed to tell me that their grandparents are German, they have been stationed in Germany, they've been on vacation in Germany.....Not once has anybody been interested in the technicalities of my immigration. The "stigma" attached to a Fiance-Visa is because of the stereotypical mail-order-bride scenario: older/unattractive/lower socio-economic status Americans (mostly men) who import young, attractive, poor and presumably grateful spouses.

I thought Anfisa handled herself well with regards to the bullying by Pao and Loren. Pao especially is starting to show how ugly her character really is. Somebody needs to tell Pao that the extensions and bleaching will completely ruin what little natural hair she has left. Her dark wigs looked so much better than the ratty grey-ish orange extensions

And even that seems to vary. I came on an investment visa, a few years later got married and getting the green card was a breeze. The "Interview" took all of one minute and the immigration officer didn't question any of our documents. Another 14 years later, I finally applied for citizenship (because by then I could keep my German citizenship as well) and that was even easier.

Paola can't be all that successful modeling. Both the "Louboutin" shoes and "Gucci" bag on her Instagram are fakes.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I'm starting to feel a bit sorry for Anfisa. Her behavior is unacceptable, she obviously needs to learn how to react appropriately. Jorge "met" her when she was working as a Cam-Ho, sorry, Cam-Model and after she ignored his numerous messages, he told her that he is a (multi-) millionaire and that he will buy her anything she wants. She mentioned that many times during the show and he didn't take the opportunity to come clean. As vile as Anfisa can be, she didn't lie to Jorge; she was very clear about the basis of their relationship. He trapped her and he feels that he now has the upper hand. What is she going to do? Get a divorce, go back to Russia to live with Grandma and return to Cam-modeling? The green cards the fiancées are getting are conditional green cards. After two years, the conditions will be removed if the requirements are fulfilled. That means Anfisa would have to stay with Jorge for at least that long before she could get an unconditional green card that isn't tied to her marriage to Jorge. This also why I'm confused why Mohamed thinks he will be allowed to stay if he gets a divorce. When his two-year conditional green card expires and needs to be changed to to an unconditional green card he may not qualify if he is no longer married to Danielle. Paola is becoming rather annoying. Supposedly she moved to Miami to become a model to help pay the mortgage in OK. When she gets there she is told that she should get a job, or two, because the modeling isn't going to pay the bills. She didn't notice during her previous visits that her model friends all had jobs? She keeps saying that she went to Miami for the benefit of their relationship and that she has been really busy. Then she admits that she hasn't had a single paid gig. So, she has been busy with what? Partying every night? Going clubbing with other models is going to land her a paid gig? Because legitimate marketing/advertising professionals typically search for models at night-clubs? That's where modeling agencies come in: when marketing needs a model, they look through the agencies' portfolios, they don't search the bars and night-clubs. When she allows her friend to call Russ a peasant and generally put him down, she shows her character and it isn't pretty. I do understand that Paola misses her culture. I have lived in five countries, on three continents and it isn't always easy to live in foreign country. If she feels that she can't be friends with Americans, did she reach out to OKC's large Latino community? According to the OK Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, there are 400,000 Hispanics in OK and 170,000 in the OKC area. Surely Paola could have found some contacts if she had tried. Apart from Alexei, who I think is an EMT or some such thing, did any of the fiancées have a steady job, or career in their home country? Anfisa was a Cam-Model; Paola designed fashion/shoes?, presumably as unsuccessfully as she is as a model; Pedro was life-guard at the beach; Mohammed did what? Nobody has an actual education?

While I wouldn't go as far as saying I'm sorry for Anfisa, I do think she got the raw end of the deal. Obviously Jorge seriously overstated his current income and also told her he'll be a multi-millionaire many times over as soon as marijuana goes legal in CA. They made a deal: He gets a trophy wife and access to her body in return for spending money lavishly on Anfisa and giving her a life of luxury. He forgot to mention that he has a criminal record and no home and when he was finally able to get an apartment, it wasn't exactly high-end. He lied to her about his circumstances and when she reminded him again and again about their deal and that she's there for his money first, he tried to change the deal and make it about love. I really thought it was a cheap shot of Jorge to threaten to file for annulment if she leaves him once she gets her green card. He is the one who didn't keep to his end of the bargain. I also think Anfisa would look much prettier if she would lay off the excessive lip fillers and remove the hair extensions and stripper lashes. Anfisa, take a look at Irina (Alla's sister) who is beautiful in a natural way. Why is Jorge's bank account frozen? Because of illegally having marijuana money in there, or because a creditor got a judgement against him, or...? Tell us, inquiring minds want to know. I don't think I have ever seen less chemistry with a supposed couple than between Azan and Nicole. He is not into her at all. I cringed when she wanted to know if he loves her, really really loves her, how much....? Aaargh, she is 22 with the emotional maturity of a 6 year old.

I thought he was a grower and sells the UV bags. He said that when marijuana becomes legal in CA, he'll be really rich. That could possibly be the case if he has money to invest at that point. The way he's spending everything he's got on Anfisa , I doubt he'll have any capital to invest and he'll just be a small-time player for ever after. I'm in Colorado and certainly not everybody who is in the marijuana business became rich over night. The couple of growers who did make it big also had big money to invest. As far as the UV-bags go, he's probably not the only one who has them. They don't wrap marijuana products in yesterday's newspaper in CO either. The bags used are smell- and light proof. The reason he's paying for everything in cash is probably because marijuana is a cash-only business. No credit card processor will work with anybody in the marijuana business. Most banks refuse to let marijuana businesses bank with them. It was a huge problem for CO dispensaries in the beginning: Wads of cash and nowhere to deposit it. Since then some local banks and credit unions have taken marijuana businesses as customers.

Even for swimsuit and lingerie modeling having a nice body is not enough. Models are salespersons. They have to sell a product or service to a target market. Both Anfisa and Paola seem to think that modeling is a matter of looking sexy and/or beautiful in a (enhanced) photo. A model worth her fee must be able to present a product in a way to get me as a customer to buy the item. Lingerie models that look overly sexy or sleazy do not inspire women (the target market) to buy. If Anfisa and Paola want to only see sexy photos of themselves, their only possible option is a male target market, nudie mags e.g.

Danielle doesn't just hold the keys, she is the key that opened the US to Mohammed

I really don't know why Jorge has a problem with Anfisa's lingerie photoshoot. After all, that is how he met her: He saw her "sexy poses in swimsuit" pics on Facebook and messaged her with promises of riches untold, till she caved. Did he really think a woman who only posts suggestive, half-naked pictures of herself (on public setting) would make a good stay-at-home wife? I think Anfisa has a very nice body, but I wish somebody would tell her that there's a difference between having good posture and sticking your butt and boobs out as far as you can. She's constantly over-arching her back, to the point where her shoulders and arms are behind her torso. It looks ridiculous - chest forward, butt back, like a duck. Duck lips and duck posture. Azan telling Nicole not to be lazy may sound harsher than intended. His english is probably not be good enough to know that calling somebody lazy is rude and sedentary would have been a better choice of words. I do agree with him, Nicole needs to change her lifestyle for her own sake. Is Narkiya sure His Royal Highness Lowo studies anything in Vietnam? That he isn't a low paid immigrant looking to take a gullible woman for all she's worth? Wiki 'Nigerians in Vietnam' : " Many Africans, including Nigerians, run fashion shops in Tan Phu district, Ho Chi Minh City....Wages in the country are low, equivalent to just US$200/month even for a college graduate, meaning many of the migrants find it difficult to make a living." Scamming women may be his second job. Poor Pedro. Chantel is a spineless wannabe princess. Matt is a spineless Mama's boy. I feel sorry for Alla and especially Max who may be uprooted again in future.

Sure, many foreigners have their own funds, but that doesn't make a good TV show. I was born in Germany and came to the US with an Investment Visa. Not connected romantically to any American and I was/am financially independent. I didn't really plan to stay forever, but after three years of living here, I met my husband. I'm not a mail-order bride, I didn't need anybody to marry me for a visa or Green Card. I know several couples where the spouses were born abroad and had perfectly good lives with steady, well paying jobs. Sometimes the foreign partner was already working in the US and sometimes the US-citizen was the one abroad. I know Americans who live in Europe because that is where their spouse is from. There are well educated people with good jobs in other countries, but they are probably not trawling the internet to find a spouse (anybody will do) in the US. I have only watched a few 90-day fiancé episodes, but it doesn't appear as if many of them are educated and successful. I like Alla and don't think there is anything wrong with her admitting that she wanted to get out of Ukraine and make a better life life for her and her son. That doesn't mean she's scamming Matt and will leave him as soon as she has a Green Card. She has a son for whom she probably wants a father figure and stability in life, so why should she not try to make a marriage with Matt work? I don't think she's in love with him, but as long as she likes him there's no reason why they couldn't grow close and have a good marriage. Many countries still have a high percentage of arranged marriages and it seems to work surprisingly well. These days in the US and Europe we usually marry for love and just look at our divorce rates. (I'm all for getting married for love, btw) That said, I guess it's obvious that Anfisa has no intention of making a marriage with Jorge work in the long run. He's just her first stepping stone. In my mind that's a scam.