Congratulations! I'm very happy for you <3 And wish you both many happy adventures together.
Thank you very much for your good wishes! =)
In my personal case, I would not be willing to travel to another country to meet someone personally, I would be very afraid, social networks lend themselves to many deceptions and even if the person gives you many proofs that you can trust them, I still would not trust them 100%, I have known stories that have not gone well at all, I think there is a lot of risk, although it is also possible that everything goes well, but I think it is very complicated when you can just meet someone who is nearby.
Besides the risk of being subjected to some danger or meeting a dangerous person who hides under a facade, there is also the risk that when you meet in person the magic falls, it has happened to me several times that on the phone, photos, calls everything goes great and at the first meeting everything falls apart, as a matter of energy or something like that.
I also don't like to give the matter a lot of time, a couple of months at most seems to me enough to propose a first meeting, even before if everything goes well and you feel good, although many times I've had to wait much longer than that to see someone and almost always the result is bad.
And it's happened to me that when I go without much expectation, everything turns out great... Hahaha, as you can see, I have a lot of experience meeting people like that, probably because of my homosexual inclination.
I also like the person to be in my same city because it annoys me to put things off for too long. I've wasted my time and my hopes, so if I'm not going to connect with someone, I prefer to find out as soon as possible.