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'''IMBRA'''
A new United States law "International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005".
The main provisions of IMBRA place limits on number of "K" visa petitions a man may file for his potential bride in a certain time period, and also (most importantly) require that a man discloses all his past criminal history, visa petition history, past marital and divorce history, ages of children under age 18 to the lady BEFORE he can get her contact information or otherwise communicate with her. The agency must collect this information, then check the National Sex Offender public registry and state public registry for each man, provide all this information to the lady, and secure a signed and written consent from the lady to release her contact information to that particular man.
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'''IMBRA clearance'''
According to IMBRA (explained above) before we can release personal contact information of a woman, a man requesting this information has to fill out a form with some background information (past criminal history, visa petition history, past marital and divorce history, ages of children under 18). We run this information against National Sex Offender registry and state public registry. The cost of this process is $40.
'''IMBRA release'''
According to IMBRA (explained above) before we can release personal contact information of a woman, we have to secure her written consent to release this information to each individual man, requesting it. The woman is provided with the results of IMBRA clearance (explained above) for that man before she signs the release.
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