is it hard to bring a thai girl home to usa? what do you need to show embassy ?

Answer 1

You don't provide much info - if you are planning on bringing home a girl who you have yet to meet you may want to rethink your plan. Thailand has the best looking women in the world but their culture and our culture don't join well. (Not to say it can't work but it will be very very hard.) They are very interested in gaining status WITHIN their families by giving large gifts and costly status symbols to older relatives that raise the status of the family relative to others. The problem is that if she is with you she and her family will feel that your assets are pretty much theirs! It sounds like a con but most of the time it is not - its just the way their culture is - they would treat a Thai man who had any kind of resources the same way. He would be glad to have the chance to prove how kind and giving he is by spending money he may not have to buy her family somthing they probably don't need. They really value giving. If she feels like you are not giving enough she will try to give you chances to give - she may even create a chance for you (lie). In her eyes, and the eyes of an outside Thai observer, she is doing you a favor - giving you a chance to look good and prove you are a giving person. Of course if you catch her in lies to get money you would probably not be very happy - she genuinely won't understand why you think it is such a big deal.

One real life example that happened to me (not romantic in nature but showing how the two cultures can clash.)

I buy an item from a street vendor. I pay way way more than I should. The street vendor at the next table waits and once I have paid the first vendor offers to sell me the same item for less than half of what I paid. I decline and go about my business figuring that I got taken but it was a small amount of money and probably will help make the poor vendors life a bit better.

A few days later I walk past the first vendor who tells me that the 2nd vendors item was a fake - that the one I got was real. I walked away without saying anything - now I was sort of pissed. It was one thing to take advantage of my not knowing what the item was worth - thats how the world works - but now she was telling me a lie that only a total idiot would believe, and probably wanting to sell me some more junk. (The item was not branded - there is no way that one was a copy and one an original)

In her mind - I now realize years later - she was doing me a favor. She and the other vendor had made me look bad so she was telling me a lie, that she knew I would know was a lie, so that I could pretend to believe it so that I wouldn't look bad!

You can certainly learn about the culture and understand more but I think that you have to be Thai to really understand what is going on in any given exchange. Now when I am in Thailand I know some of the obvious cultural diffs and I know enough to suspend judgement when somthing that seems utterly crazy starts to make me mad. When I don't understand what is going on I ask a Thai friend, sometimes I learn, often I am left even more confused.

That is why Thailand is such a great place to visit - as a Westerner you learn more every time you go - we will probably never really "get it."

One other thing - all of the above should be ignored if you are talking about a prostitute. They really do just want to take your money for greedy reasons!

Answer 2

It is virtually impossible for a Thai girl to come to the USA on anything but a tourist visa. If she is wealthy, owns property is professionally employed or owns a big business there is a small chance she can get a tourist visa. A fiancee visa is a S**t load of paperwork and you accept financial responsibility for her until she becomes a citizen. If you chose to try the Fiancee Visa route be sure to check this forum.
http://forums.delphiforums.com/n/main.asp?webtag=ThaiFalang&nav=start&prettyurl=%2FThaiFalang%2F

Answer 3

Yes. It can be quite difficult - especially if you met her in a bar.. She will need a bank account and a viable assurance that she will not overstay her visa.. [ no you cannot guarantee what might be in someone else's head ] - As suggested above, the surest route, though time consuming, is the Fiance visa, which gives her 3 months in the USA and then you either have to get married or send her back.. -- but you can always try for a tourist visa.. though this is not easy.. lol

Answer 4

You don't need a lawyer. What was that crap about vendors? It's like that all over the world. It's the nature of bargaining.
No doubt cross cultural relationships add plenty of extra problems, but it adds twice as many good things. Check out these web sites

http://bangkok.usembassy.gov/embassy/mrginfo.htm
http://www.uscis.gov/graphics/howdoi/fiance.htm

Answer 5

You absolutely don't need an immigration lawyer. You just need to apply for a fiancee visa. See the BCIS web site for that. You will have to prove that a legitimate relationship exists, that you have visited each other and have pictures together, that you can financially support her, that she has no disease like HIV, etc. etc. It isn't too hard to do unless the relationship is really fake.

Answer 6

Are you talking about a proper relationship where you want to live with her and share your lives together? Then yes see the answers above.

If you are talking about human trafficking then stuff her into a crate and ship her over.

Answer 7

You need an Immigration lawyer for one

Answer 8

Postage could be expensive. after that, wouldnt know.