IMBRA, the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005 (Subtitle D of United States Public Law 109-162), is a United States federal statute that requires background checks for all marriage visa sponsors and limits serial visa applications. IMBRA also requires background checks before speech or other forms of communication are permitted between American citizens and foreign nationals. The impetus for its introduction was several high-profile cases (including the Susanna Blackwell case in 1995 and the Anastasia King case in 2000) in which foreign women had been abused and eventually murdered by the men who had used international marriage brokers to bring them to the United States. Several international marriage brokers challenged its constitutionality but the statute was upheld by a federal court in 2007. IMBRA has been the subject of controversy since its passage because of free-speech and identity theft concerns.Also controversial are the obligations it imposes on the international marriage broker industry, commonly referred to as the mail order bride industry

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International Marriage Broker Regulation Act of 2005