AboutDebbie Senters Expertise I am quite familiar with Cairo, Alexandria and most of the popular tourist areas. I can answer questions on transportation, places to stay (meaning hotels, or cities), sites to see, how to handle the natives, where to eat, you name it. I am the type of person that likes to do things and I`ve experienced quite a bit in Egypt from riding the metro (I can give a detailed description of how to do that from buying a ticket to finding the womens only car) to how to find your way around town without a guide. I have lots of friends now around Egypt that are happy to meet foreigners and help out, if the people with questions will be tourists and want additional assistance when they arrive.
Experience I have traveled to far corners of the country, and still have many places I need to see. If you are coming to Egypt and need a guide or a travel companion, please think about asking if I'm available. I can't leave until I've seen it all. I LOVE IT HERE!
Question Hello Debbie,..I am finding out much on your site and appreciate it very much...I have an Egyptian fiancee and I am in Kentucky USA...Can you tell me what I can expect if and when I marry him, probably here when he comes in October 2007, or, if I can go there before, what is it like to marry there?..He is a wonderful man, the best I have met in my life..and he is concerned about the embassy there to come here,..do you know what he can expect from them?...Thank you ever so much...Carrie Alsbrooks
Answer Dear Carrie,
I can't answer this question exactly because every time I find an Egyptian man that wants to marry me, I run fast the other direction. I came close a couple of times, but learned quick enough that I didn't want to live my life out with him.
Let me guess....You met him on the Internet. You are his "princess". He tells you (or told you) "no two fingers on any hand are the same" when you might have mentioned that you heard about Egyptian men?
If any of this rings true, be careful. Actually the chance of him getting a visa to come visit you are practically nil, so there isn't much to worry about really. And contrary to most of these Egyptian mens thinking, when/if you really marry him, America is NOT going to open their arms to him and welcome him into the country. The two of you will have to jump through some major hoops to get him a visa into America, EVEN after you marry him.
On the other hand, you cold come here to live. What do you know about Egypt and what it is like to live here? Does he have a good job? Could he afford to keep you in a living condition that you are comfortable in? Do you have the money to pay for it all if he doesn't? Have you met his family yet? Does he live in Cairo or in some village outside of Cairo? Even under the best of circumstanses, some people, particularly women, hate living here. I see wifes of oil men working here that get to live in the lap of luxury, still hating it. You just can't say you will automatically love it here. It is a different world.
Is he Muslim? or is he Christian? What do you know about either of these faiths? Did you know that Coptic Christians can not divorce? If you were to come here and marry him in a Coptic church (if the Copts allowed that) you would never be able to divorce him if it didn't work out. Divorce is next to impossible in that religion. If he is Muslim are you prepared to allow your children to be raised Muslim? What do you know about that religion? Maybe you are Muslim and this is a match made in heaven. I hope so.
All I can say is that no matter what age you are (and you could be 20 to 50 yrs old and the Egyptian men would still be finding you on the Internet and trying to get you to fall in love with them so they can get the heck out of Dodge) be careful. There are so many Egyptian men that are horribly misinformed about the criteria it takes to get into the USA, Canada, or the UK, and they are working every angle on the Internet to meet women to fall in love with them and get them over to their country.
Of course if you ask him about this, he will deny it. Just be careful and don't let your heart get too caught up in this, as that is going to be painful if it breaks. Just be aware that if it is an Internet relationship, all is not as it seems.
