July 2006

I started writing to Natalia  from Mariupol on the 23 July 2004. Natalia said that she would like to come to the UK for my birthday but she could not get a visa. I opened a visa to the Ukraine and arrived at Borispol airport Kiev on the 4 December 2004. We both went to the British Embassy in Kiev and she opened a visitors visa to the UK. We stayed in Kiev for a few days and then went onto Mariupol. I stayed in total over 5 weeks in the Ukraine. We come back to the UK together on the 11 January 2005. After a brief return visit to the British embassy in February we were married on 18 March 2005. We live in a flat. Natalia now has a full time job.

Thank you for all your help bringing us together,  we are very happy. She is warm, loving and tender.