Re: Foreign born spouse?
dunno bout it. My wife was born in US and never lived anywhere else. marrying a girl in Pakistan was not something I was in favour of. It was a compatibility issue for me. I did not think that i could relate well to a girl who was in pakistan. It is not a practice in place in my family anyways, people who are in US married people in US, those in UK married those in UK. (btw tru for guys and girls both)
I do have friends who went to Pakistan to find their wives, and the reasons included (btw these are reasons I heard, not justifications that I am providing)
1) better compatibility since these guys had grown up in Pakistan
2) Better religious and family values, better character etc
3) Choice of parents, and since parents are in Pak, the girl would be in Pak too
4) Can not live with someone who will be in their face (basically they want the spouse to follow their lead and not be an equal..this is what was discovered upon further inquiry)
5) unable to find the type of girl they want here, better opportunities of finding someone in Pak (this can also mean that the type of girl they want may not be in their reach in US, but in Pakistan they have a better chance)
6) may move back to pakistan, and thus prefer someone who like them is from there (applies mostly to guys/girls here whose family is in pakistan)