Newsletter
One email a week, on Sundays
Roughly five minutes of reading: one practical thing that works, what we published, one fraud pattern worth recognising, a reader question, and a few links worth your time. Nothing else, ever.
What the letter is
The site answers the question you searched for. The letter is the other half — the thing you did not know to ask about yet, sent once, on a day when you have time to read it.
It is written for people whose relationship crosses a border and who are out of people to ask: couples counting down to a visit, partners halfway through a visa process, anyone who has just started to wonder whether the person they are talking to is who they say they are.
What an issue looks like
Every issue has the same five parts, in the same order, so you can skip the ones you do not need without missing the one you do.
One thing that works
A single practical fix, explained in a paragraph. Keeping one shared calendar in both timezones instead of doing the arithmetic every time. Booking the next visit before the current one ends. Small, testable, boring — the things that actually hold.
The country desk
What we published or updated that week, and a line on what changed. When a fee, a form or a processing time moves, this is where you find out.
Red flag of the week
One fraud pattern in three sentences: what it sounds like, when the ask arrives, and what to do the moment you recognise it. Never a lecture, never a photograph of a stranger.
Reader question
One question from the inbox, answered properly. Anonymised unless you say otherwise, and never with your details in it.
Worth reading elsewhere
Two or three links, usually to things we did not write — a piece of research, a consular notice, a report from someone who did the reporting better than we could.
How often, and who writes it
Once a week, on Sunday. Not twice, not “whenever we have news,” and never a second email to tell you the first one arrived. If a week is thin, the issue is short — we do not pad it to fill a slot.
It is written by the same editor who reads every article before it publishes, to the same editorial policy: sourced claims, no generalisations about nationalities, and a correction in the next issue when we get something wrong.
What happens to your address
We store your email address, the date you subscribed and which page you subscribed from. That is the entire record. We do not sell it, rent it, share it with advertisers or upload it to an ad platform, and there is no drip sequence waiting behind it.
Every issue carries a one-click unsubscribe link at the foot; it works immediately and you never have to explain yourself. If you want the record deleted rather than just suppressed, ask and it is gone within 30 days. The full detail is in the privacy policy.
If a sponsor ever appears in the letter it will be a single, clearly labelled placement, and it will not be a dating service, an introduction agency or a lender — the same rules that govern the advertising on the site.
Newsletter
The Sunday letter for people dating across borders
One honest email a week: what actually works in long-distance, the country guides we just published, and the scam patterns worth knowing about. No spam, unsubscribe anytime.