How successful is the mail order bride business?

One interesting thing to note is that according to the US Customs and Immigration Service:

marriages arranged through these services would appear to have a lower divorce rate than the nation as a whole, fully 80 percent of these marriages having lasted over the years for which reports are available.

That would appear to be in spite of U.S. law that would incentivize divorce and abuse claims in such cases. Claiming domestic violence by an American husband appears to be the quickest way to a green card. This is something that the women in these case are also pretty much guaranteed to be aware of courtesy of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act. American women, by constrast, aren't required, as far as I can call, to be aware of domestic violence legislation. (Most of the provisions of the International Marriage Broker Regulation Act appear to be pretty reasonable... I wonder a little about the limitations on freedom of speech it imposes though).