IMBRA and Minnesota

[catzenmouse]

This was posted by Gary Bala over on PL.
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Those cold-weather penguins in Minnesota have raised the bar again with what appears to be IMBRA-Plus or Super-IMBRA.

Here is the text and status of the Minnesota Senate Bill S.F. 1480.

http://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=S1480.0.html&session=ls85

If the Bill passes and goes into effect Aug. 01, 2007, it appears even more restrictive than the current federal IMBRA law.

The IMB (International Marriage Broker) must file papers with the Minnesota Sect. of State to do business with Minnesota customers, and gather even more detailed information from Minnesota customers (and get their Minnesota criminal information directly from Minnesota Dept. of Public Safety), and make it all available more readily at their cost in her native language to the foreign "recruit" before getting her signed release. The Bill also precludes the Minnesota U.S. Citizen customer from filing for a fiancee visa for the recruit until these requirements are complied with.

All of you IMBs doing business in Minnesota or with Minnesota customers will be facing a more difficult challenge.

[Jeff Mowatt]

I tuned into the expression "for profit" in the clarifications listed. So, potentially, a marriage agency registering as a nonprofit would be exempt?

Jeff

[BC]

Looks like religious organization and no fee..

Is interesting that a state would mix itself into what should be a federal issue..

Requiring overseas MB's to register with the state?? (the real hurdle)

Cute..

[Jack]

So, potentially, a marriage agency registering as a nonprofit would be exempt?

Cool, I might qualify.   

[Rvrwind]

Cool, I might qualify.   

Me Too!! I'm so non-profit they may have to pay me!!!

[William3rd]

I do not see them carrying this forward and precluding fiancee visas and their filing. Something may well pass but the area concerning visas is federal.

[DKMM]

*The question was whether bride.ru is a marriage broker*

[William3rd]

I include them as a broker, state Moscow as their location, and include a copy of their webpage in the packet.

[DKMM]

I am thinking of just saying we met on freepersonals and checking no because i'm worried about it taking longer if they have to research the "marriage broker."

[Maxx2]

I live in Minnesota and we call it the "Peoples' Republic of Minnesota" here. If the legislature gets their way we will have the highest State income taxes in the country, around 10%. One talk radio show pundent calls Minnesota "the land where absolutely nothing is allowed". I can see how the State would adopt more busy body legislation.



Maxx

[mervin]

I live in Minnesota and we call it the "Peoples' Republic of Minnesota" here. If the legislature gets their way we will have the highest State income taxes in the country, around 10%. One talk radio show pundent calls Minnesota "the land where absolutely nothing is allowed". I can see how the State would adopt more busy body legislation.

Well Maxx, seeing as we're both from MN, we both know there is no logic to the legislature here, "garage logic" or otherwise. Though I can't say I have much sympathy for the present state of things here. Minnesota is indeed becoming a bastion of liberalism, and the voters of this state are getting what they deserve - to the extent that we elected the people who are now reeking havoc on those of us who live here. By "we" I mean the people of this state, as the plurality of the voting block voted them into office. Me, I wouldn't vote for a MN liberal (or any liberal for that matter) even if someone put a gun to my head or told me I'd never be allowed to travel to Ukraine or Russia again! I'm sorry, but at some level I'm a man of principal. No offense to those members here who posses a liberal political ideology. I think there's a stark difference between the average American democrat and those George Soros's loving, socialist wackos on the left who hold political office and don't represent the average member of their party at all.

You know things are bad in Minnesota when a guy like Keith Ellison gets elected to congress and you know things are even worse when people entertain the idea of setting aside space at twin cities international airport to allow prayer space for Muslims. And it might be near the breaking point when you've got some Islamic Imoms that stand up on an airplane in mid flight and start acting all "jihad like" and instead of considering themselves lucky that the air marshal's didn't cap their jihad asses where they stood, they decide to sue the airline for discrimination and possibly the passengers that restrained them rather than throwing them out the f#cking window at 30,000 feet like I would have. And it's the end of the f#cking world when people allow the Minneapolis city council to propose the idea of giving illegal aliens the right to vote in public elections!!! 

Yep... something smells here in the state of MN. So I guess I'm not surprised that some wacky public official would propose this sort of amendment too. Come to think of it, I'd have been surprised if they didn't!