Привіт! Yes you read that right they're now pitching Ukrainian women as war brides Привіт
з Одеси Мама greetings from Odesa in Ukraine it is day 142 of Russia's invasion of Ukraine and
have a very apt t-shirt considering where I am about a certain Russian battleship but war brides
when I say that I mean that basically Ukrainian women are desperately looking for a foreign man
to save them from the war here in Ukraine that is what I've seen online both from the dodgy marriage
agencies and from some pickup artists saying you know if you can meet them somewhere in Europe then
they will be so desperate for a Western guy that yeah they want to go and live with Bob from Idaho
in his shack somewhere in the States something as ridiculous as that so in this video I'm
going to explain a little bit about how Ukrainian women can actually travel at the moment and move
to other countries in the West which is different so there are some special regimes
in place that should make it easier to move and actually the genesis for this video wasn't just
those ... those claims about war brides or women fleeing the war
it was actually that I had to help some clients who had girlfriends and fiancées who were
Ukrainian were here when the war started and they needed to get them out and also my own girlfriend
left with me when we evacuated on February 25th so I have a fair idea about how lots of
the rules work and I also have a background as a lawyer anyways let's get into the video
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It's estimated that since this invasion began on the 24th of February there are 11 million over
11 million displaced Ukrainians now about half of those are actually displaced within Ukraine
they haven't left the country they've just moved to another region or city but the other half
which is over five million people has left the country and are effectively refugees abroad now
I'm going to just give you a very brief outline of the different special regimes have been introduced
as a result in the main Western countries and after that then I'm going to explain exactly
the chances of a Western man getting a Ukrainian war bride as a result of the war so let's do the first one
So first up is Uncle Sam the United States of America there are two programs the first one is
Uniting for Ukraine and there the Ukrainian needs a sponsor basically someone to guarantee them
financially and they can move to the us for two years once they get that visa the other one is
actually humanitarian parole now this exists in general it's different to asylum law which I'm
not going to go into because that just applies to everybody across the world they have to flee
a war zone this is something that exists really but has been used by a lot of Ukrainians I'm
told in that place it means you can go without a sponsor so a Ukrainian can show up on the board you
might have seen that on the Mexican border for example that they can go and they can stay for
temporary stay basically you get if you are accepted as a humanitarian parole but you don't
need a sponsor that's the big difference so next country let's pick the United Kingdom so United
Kingdom also has it's a little bit similar it has two ways to come first one is the Ukrainian
family scheme second one is the Ukrainian sponsorship scheme so family scheme is if you
have a family member already living in the United Kingdom then they can organize that for you to get
a visa to come over I have a friend who's actually done that because his daughter is Ukrainian and he
organized for the mother of the child and for his daughter to come over to the United Kingdom
the other one is the sponsorship scheme that's when well basically you are Ukrainian don't have
a family member so then you get a sponsor and you go and live with that sponsor that host basically
in the United Kingdom and you basically get to stay for up to three years if that's the case
So next one I'm actually going to just read out because it's Canada it's called the Canada Ukraine
authorization for emergency travel or c-u-a-e-t and that means that a Ukrainian can just apply for
a visitor visa and be allowed to stay in Canada for up to three years as opposed to a standard
six-month authorized visa so you don't need a sponsor if you're a Ukrainian woman and you want
to go to Canada at the moment so that's pretty attractive what other countries that's just so
quickly to Australia and to New Zealand because basically they don't have any special program
unless in New Zealand it is for a family reunion for New Zealand citizens who are actually from
Ukraine that's going to be very limited category of people and then the Australians basically
they've just that them apparently they've been processing visas quicker than normal for Ukrainians
because of the situation but there is no special program so I'm gonna get to the biggest and most
important because this is actually what most Ukrainian women who have left have used and that
is the temporary protection directive of the European Union they've actually gone into the
European Union basically if you wanted to leave Ukraine over land since the war began because
there's no flights and taking a boat obviously it's a non-starter at the moment out of here then
you are not going to go to Russia you're not going to go to Belarus almost no one went to Belarus
most of the 5 million people went to the European Union and they went to countries like Romania,
Hungary and Poland first and then maybe they moved on and they are allowed to stay one year
provisionally under the temporary protection directive it's actually a directive that was
created by the European Union after the Balkans Wars in the 1990s but this is the first time
it's ever been activated so what happens there is that basically any Ukrainian who comes into
the European Union they normally have visa free for Schengen which is almost all of the European
Union Ireland for example which is not in Schengen the day after the war started they actually
said that you can come without visas anyways so they don't have a problem actually coming and then
they have can pick a country in the European Union and they can stay for up to one
year and they can do everything they want they can work and basically can live as
more or less a EU citizen even though Ukraine is not in the European Union so think about it
Ukrainian passport is actually at the moment probably more valuable than an American passport
so what does that mean for all the wife hunters and the guys thinking they're getting a war bride
because they're Bob from Idaho or Travis from Tennessee I just kind of pick on these random
states in the US who thinks that yeah the Ukraine women are desperate to come
marry him to come live in America ah it's not so clear is it when you see what they have as
ways to leave Ukraine that are special regimes at the moment in those Western countries
So what can I say to those guys who wrote me asking me Conor can I still get a Ukrainian
bride actually most of them didn't address me by my name they just said hey can I still get
a Ukrainian bride? I'm American well first of all I did a previous vodka vodcast about the death
basically of the male order bride industry here in Ukraine link it up above in the card down below
in the description so since February 24th what have those dodgy marriage agencies
and romance tours actually done well most of them have done one of two things they are now pitching
having a virtual Ukrainian bride yes you can come online and talk to Ukrainian women via zoom
Yeah you can really have a virtual online girlfriend or wife as ridiculous as that
sounds that's basically what they're pitching is basically something that I don't know for me
you could do this by just going on to any sort of dating site I don't see why you were paid to
be on that but fine that's one of the things that they've done and the other one is that they have
actually just focused on other regions now they're pitching a lot Colombian and Filipino women and
also some of them are making really bad attempts to try and outsource their marketing within the
region and talk about Moldovan and Polish women all of a sudden which is just kind of odd because
they pumped so much money in the last two decades into this myth of the Stepford wife from Ukraine
the woman who looks like a supermodel just wants to cook and clean bake those cookies all day
and clean the house yeah but they were never really let's be frank about it interested in
the average American guy to start with but Conor, you might be saying but surely if it's easier
for them to travel right since I helped clients actually get their girlfriends and fiancées and
daughter to the West surely that makes it even more attractive well these marriage agencies
they were never really based on a high level of success yes very few people who they were ever had
as paying clients ever got married to a Ukrainian woman I would be surprised if it's even over one
percent of clients I would think that would be a massive stretch and because that's not what it's
based on it's based on basically two different models one is the romance tours which means
getting the guys all to come over here and go on a series of dates so basically pay to have dates
most of the women are definitely significant women are not genuinely interested in meeting them
they may have been financially induced to go on the date with them are they are actually just doing
an online scam which called letter writing scam have lots of videos on my channel about this I'll
link a few of them up above and cards down below in the description we're basically string the long
the guy along and he's paying per communication like a letter or chat and one guy even ran a bill
like of 300,000 US dollars yes that is possible so that is basically what their model is based on
and then finally I'll add that think about it if the kind of main arbitrage that these guys
are trying to pitch themselves on who go to kind of the marriage agency to find the war bride as
I've seen pitched by these dodgy online marriage agencies that the women are all desperate to leave
because they have no options if they can go just go to my home country Ireland which I actually
just came from they could just move there and basically the Irish government thankfully has set
up a lot of assistance for Ukrainians and you know they can go with their kids and basically relocate
to Ireland and stay provisionally for probably be extended up to three years eventually and yeah
they don't have to worry financially so why would they want to necessarily meet some random guy
online not going to be very many takers on that are there in reality and in sum
the idea of a war bride is pretty much a fantasy I would say the war is horrific tens of thousands of
people have been killed cities have been destroyed but people do have other options than looking for
a foreign husband if they are a Ukrainian woman thankfully for them and ah unfortunately for you
wannabe wife hunters who are hoping to take advantage of the situation
probably it's going to be you that gets taken advantage of by an online scammer marriage agency
So I just have a air raid siren there hopefully I don't get blown up in a
Russian terrorist attack here in Odesa Mama but before I go if you do want more bespoke advice
about what to do this summer in terms of what's going on here in Ukraine obviously the war is real
but where else in Europe you can go have been bringing clients to neighboring Moldova where
obviously we don't have this situation and there we go out and we have an absolutely amazing
weekend you got down below you have the links to my consulting and also how to live the
tsar experience I'll link a video up above to the last time that I did the Tsar Experience
here in Ukraine in Kharkiv you can go and take a look at what is involved in this our experience
there and I will see you in the very next video Слава Україні! Героям Слава!
До побачення з Одеси Мама!