Isn't that what Prigozin said ?
Seriously though, have you ever considered that she might be embarrassed or even ashamed to be seen with a foreigner ? Do her friends know about you ?
As long as they endorse or promote the use of agents to bypass the "rules".it won't matter how much they decide to raise the 800k to.
The fees payable,.of course, will rise, or we may see a boom in marriages of convenience even !