One of TV’s most deliciously awkward shows, “90 Day Fiancé,” recently wrapped its eighth season on TLC and continues to be a fascinating experiment in love and culture wars.
The hit reality series is built around the United State’s K-1 visa program, which allows U.S. citizens to sponsor their fiancé to legally live in the United States. But the sponsor and the applicant must marry within 90 days of entry into the U.S.
“90 Day Fiancé” has spawned multiple spinoff shows on TLC and helped the network become a ratings juggernaut for Disney, topping all cablers in the key women demo of ages 25-54 in recent Nielsen quarterly reports.
TLC president Howard Lee, whose parents were Chinese immigrants, told Variety in 2020 that the network’s programming is a reflection of his own life in the U.S. “I understand them and why they want to try to be further understood,” he says of the reality stars in shows like “90 Day Fiancé.” “‘Please understand me’ or ‘Please understand my family’: That comes across in our programming. And you have to experience that as a child to really understand.”
TLC’s “90 Day Fiancé” spinoffs include “Happily Ever After?”, “Before the 90 Days,” “What Now?”, “The Other Way,” “Pillow Talk” and the more recent COVID-19-themed show, “Self Quarantined,” all of which feature either recurring participants of the show or new couples.
As for the original “90 Day Fiancé,” as evident from the vast amount of spinoffs, viewers are eager to find out: which couples are still together? And who called it quits? Well, here’s an update on all 41 couples from TLC’s popular marital series, starting with the first season back in 2014.
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Alan and Kirlyam (Season 1)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
Alan, who’s from Los Angeles, met Kirlyam while on a Mormon mission in Brazil. They’re still married and have one child together, Liam. The couple has also left Hollywood behind (perhaps he was still jealous of her modeling career?) and moved across country to North Carolina, where they currently live.
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Russ and Paola (Season 1)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
Oklahoma shy guy Russ fell in love with Paola during a trip to Colombia years ago. They eventually got married and appeared in TLC’s spinoff series “Happily Ever After?” which documented Paola’s desire to move to Miami and pursue a modeling and personal trainer career. They still live in Florida and recently welcomed a son, Axel. In July, however, Paola posted a series of tweets that hinted at some tough “decisions” and that it may be time to “move on.” Her rep told People that the couple is “still together” and attending therapy.
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Mike and Aziza (Season 1)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
Mike met Russian-born Aziza on a dating website and his family, from Cleveland, was highly skeptical of their son’s much younger fiance and felt disrespected by her behavior, which included not touching her food at dinner because of a fear of eating in public. But they’re in a much better place now, it seems. They’re still married and welcomed a baby girl Olivia in January 2019.
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Cassia and Jason (Season 1)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
Cassia, from Brazil, moved to Florida to be closer to Jason. Unfortunately their “90 Day Fiance” experiment ended in divorce…twice.
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Chelsea and Yamir (Season 2)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
Chelsea met Nicaraguan boy band singer Yamir while volunteering in South America. They tried to make it work in Illinois, where Chelsea’s from, but Yamir wanted to continue his music career in Chicago. The couple eventually split.
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Brett and Daya (Season 2)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Brett, from a small town in Washington, and Daya, from the Philippines, have dealt with some family friction on the series, particularly from Brett’s mother, who accused Daya of wanting “expensive things.” But they’re still together and welcomed a baby girl Isabelle in 2017.
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Justin and Evelyn (Season 2)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Justin, a bachelor from San Jose, decided to settle down with Evelyn after the two met at a hot dog stand in Colombia. The couple is still together and has a son.
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Danny and Amy (Season 2)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
Danny and Amy have been married since 2014 and currently live in Texas where they’ve started a new church. The couple has two children together, a boy Jedidiah and daughter Anna.
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Mark and Nikki (Season 3)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Mark, from Baltimore, plucked Nikki — nearly 40 years his junior — out of the Philippines and they’re supposedly still together, although the couple wasn’t happy with their portrayal and tried suing TLC. The case was eventually tossed out, but hey, at least they have each other!
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Carolina and Fernando (Season 3)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Separated
Fernando, from Florida, and Carolina, from Colombia, have one child together. They separated in October 2020, according to Fernando’s Instagram. Replying to a fan’s comment, he said, “It is sad for both of us and regardless of what happens, Carolina is always a special person for me that I love and hopefully we will see better days.”
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Kyle and Noon (Season 3)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
One of the sweetest couples in Season 3, Kyle, from New Orleans, and Noon, from Thailand, moved to Portland and are still hitched.
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Melanie and Devar (Season 3)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Melanie, from Pennsylvania, and Devar, from Jamaica are still together and have a three year-old daughter, Avah.
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Josh and Aleksandra (Season 3)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
The Mormon couple are still married and live in Australia where Josh is going to medical school. They have one daughter together.
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Narkyia and Olulowo (Season 4)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Narkyia, from Pennsylvania, and Olulowo, from Lagos, are still married despite a brief split.
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Jorge and Anfisa (Season 4)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
This couple ended things as a result of major legal drama: Jorge was sentenced to two and a half years in prison after being found with 300 pounds of marijuana in his car. Anfisa broke up with him two months into his sentence. He was released in May 2020 and officially filed for divorce in August of that year.
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Matt and Alla (Season 4)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Matt, from Kentucky, met Alla, from Ukraine, after divorcing from his third wife. They recently welcomed their first child together and live in Cincinnati, Ohio.
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Chantel and Pedro (Season 4)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
The otherwise drama-less couple are still together and appeared in the TLC spinoff, “The Family Chantel.”
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Nicole and Azan (Season 4 and 5)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Unknown
Their relationship is so bizarre that TLC documented not once but twice. Azan, from Morocco, can’t seem to stand Nicole, from Florida, but the two are reportedly still engaged and are trying to work it out.
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Evelyn and David (Season 5)
Image Credit: Instagram Relationship Status: Married
Evelyn, who was 18 at the time of her marriage to David, from Spain, has since appeared on “American Idol” and made it all the way to the top 14. The couple now lives in Los Angeles as she continues to pursue a singing career.
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Molly and Luis (Season 5)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
Luis, from the Dominican Republic, left Molly and her kids behind in Georgia and has since been remarried to another woman. The ex-couple also appeared on TLC’s spinoff “Happily Ever After?”
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Josh and Aika (Season 5)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Josh, from Arizona, and Aika, from the Philippines, are still together despite Aika’s insistence on having a baby (Josh already has kids from previous marriages). They currently in Scottsdale, AZ minus any new babies.
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Elizabeth and Andrei (Season 5)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Elizabeth and Andrei are still together, living in Florida, and have a one year-old daughter. They’ll next appear in the TLC spinoff “Happily Ever After?”
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David and Annie (Season 5)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Despite his financial and past marital Issues, which involved lots of “prostitutes,” according to his daughter, David somehow managed to hang on to Annie. The couple moved to Arizona and regularly appear on TLC’s “Pillow Talk.”
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Colt and Larissa (Season 6)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
Colt met Brazilian native Larissa on social media. After getting married, Larissa was arrested for domestic battery. They eventually got divorced after she was arrested after another altercation. The tumultuous pairing will appear on TLC’s upcoming spinoff “Happily Ever After?”
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Eric and Leida (Season 6)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Despite some rocky times, including a domestic violence incident in early 2019, the couple are still together, and Leida has since reconciled with one of Eric’s daughters; the other, Tasha, still doesn’t speak to either one of them.
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Steven and Olga (Season 6)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
The Season 6 couple announced their split last October, and the young parents are currently not on the best of terms — with Olga reportedly upset by Steven’s recent remarks made during an Instagram Q&A, when he spoke about their relationship status.
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Ashley and Jay (Season 6)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
Just three days after getting married, Ashley caught Jay using a dating app. She has since filed for divorce.
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Jonathan and Fernanda (Season 6)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Divorced
The seemingly unbreakable lovebirds Jonathan, from North Carolina, and Fernanda, from Mexico, surprisingly split up following TLC’s “Tell All” reunion special. “Fernanda and I will remain friends,” Jonathan wrote on Instagram about the couple’s separation.
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Angela and Michael (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Before their stint on Season 7, the couple appeared on both seasons 2 and 3 of “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days,” where they split and later reunited. After a series of ups and downs, the couple officially wed in January of last year.
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Tania and Syngin (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Tania and Syngin moved out of her mom’s shed and into a place of their own. They’re still together although Syngin appears to be longing to return to South Africa, which TLC will document in the upcoming spinoff “Happily Ever After?”
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Emily and Sasha (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Emily’s sister Betsy may not have approved, but they’re still together and have a daughter, Sasha’s third child (he already had two from his previous marriages in Russia). They both appeared on TLC’s spinoff “90 Day Fiance: Self Quarantined.”
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Robert and Anny (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Robert, from Florida, and Anny, from the Dominican Republic, connected on Facebook and were engaged within 8 hours of meeting each other for the first time. They’re still together and recently announced Anny is pregnant with a baby girl.
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Michael and Juliana (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
23 year-old Brazilian model Juliana and 42 year-old Michael are still going strong. Juliana also remains close friends with Mike’s ex-wife Sara, who was recently diagnosed with breast cancer.
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Anna and Mursel (Season 7)
Image Credit: TLC Relationship Status: Married
Anna, from Nebraska, and Mursel, from Turkey, who met over the mutual love of beekeeping, are still married and looking for a surrogate to have a baby together as Mursel is still awaiting papers that would allow him to work in the U.S.
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Andrew and Amira (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Broken Up
Andrew, from Florida, and Amira, from France, never wed. They met online and then planned to quarantine together in Mexico due to COVID-19 before getting married in North Carolina, but Amira was deported after three days. After lots of drama, including an argument about having kids, Amira broke off the engagement.
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Brandon and Julia (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Married
After meeting for the first time in Iceland, Brandon proposed and Julia moved to Dinwiddie, Va., to live on Brandon’s family farm, though they’ve since moved out on their own — in part due to Julia clashing with Brandon’s parents.
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Jovi and Yara (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Married
Jovi and Yara entered a relationship after what they thought would be a simple one-night stand on vacation. After Yara became pregnant, Jovi proposed and they applied for a visa so Yara could move to the U.S. Jovi ended up miscarrying, but later became pregnant again. They now live in New Orleans with their daughter Mylah.
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Stephanie and Ryan (Season 8)
Image Credit: Courtesy of TLC Relationship Status: Not together
The Season 8 couple split midway through the season, shortly after they reunited in Belize. Their break-up played out in an episode — along with cheating rumors from both parties.
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Mike and Natalie (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Unknown
The on-and-off couple first appeared in Season 7 and returned the following season. The status of their relationship is unknown, as a sneak peek showed Natalie hinting at betrayal by Mike and packing to leave America.
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Rebecca and Zied (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Married
Although they’re currently still together, rumors surround the legitimacy of Rebecca and Zied’s marriage and suggest they’re on the verge of divorce. After meeting on Facebook in 2018, the couple starred on “90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days” Season 3 and got married in Season 8.
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Tarik and Hazel (Season 8)
Image Credit: Screenshot Courtesy of YouTube/TLC Relationship Status: Married
The couple married in June of last year. Tarik posted a photo from their wedding on Instagram, along with the caption: “My wife. She is the strongest person I know. She is the most complex person I know. Criticism be damned. My loving, shy little braveheart. Tough as nails in light blue heels. I love her.”