Marriage certification questions for N-400

[crazysamurai 0]

My Spouse and I got married in India and only have a marriage certificate issued by a State government, which we used to submit for our green card filing.

Will the USCIS accept this marriage certificate as valid? We never got a marriage certificate issued by any State in USA. Were we supposed to? My hunch is that if my Indian marriage certificate was good enough to get my spouse CR-1 Green Card and then Remove the Conditions then that's what we should submit now. For people who called their spouses to US based on CR-1, can you please let me know if you submitted your 'foreign' marriage certificate and if you had any issues with that.

thanks,

CS

[Divs 35]

My Spouse and I got married in India and only have a marriage certificate issued by a State government, which we used to submit for our green card filing.

Will the USCIS accept this marriage certificate as valid? We never got a marriage certificate issued by any State in USA. Were we supposed to? My hunch is that if my Indian marriage certificate was good enough to get my spouse CR-1 Green Card and then Remove the Conditions then that's what we should submit now. For people who called their spouses to US based on CR-1, can you please let me know if you submitted your 'foreign' marriage certificate and if you had any issues with that.

thanks,

CS

Since you got married in India, you'd only need an Indian marriage certificate.

[ConcordUser 18]

Your certificate from india is enough. However now a days appostile has become standard for birth certificates and other legal papers. You might want to get one that is appostilled and keep it for your future needs. It also good to keep a set of appostiled birth certificates. ( I might be spelling the word apostile wrong. You can google it. )

[NickD 203]

Your certificate from india is enough. However now a days appostile has become standard for birth certificates and other legal papers. You might want to get one that is appostilled and keep it for your future needs. It also good to keep a set of appostiled birth certificates. ( I might be spelling the word apostile wrong. You can google it. )

"An apostille is a special seal applied by an authority to certify that a document is a true copy of an original." Was a new word for me that I couldn't even find in my 680,000 word AH dictionary. Its like a separate piece of paper that states reference to the original piece of paper, that, that piece of paper was originated by the same governmental source that also originates the apostille that generated that original document in the first place.

Make sense?

Since my wife was born in Colombia, but naturalized in Venezuela, needed those for such things as birth and marriage certificates between those two countries, never heard of that before. Those weren't too bad, would sell US dollars down there to the black market to get Bolivars that was like getting an 80% discount. But for that three page court order giving my wife permission to bring her daughter here, the price tag on that document apostille was like 500 bucks, but we got by with a hundred bucks, thanks to the blackmarket.

We wanted to register our US marriage in Venezuela, their consulate also demanded an apostille, I had to go to Madison to get that, that stated our marriage was recorded in Madison, but they only charged me two bucks for that. A standard form where a computer typed in our marriage certificate number. But sure looked official. Just seems crazy to me.

In regards to which countries the USA recognizes a marriage or divorce at, a DOS function, just like your place of birth on your US passport, for 203 different countries, depending upon how many cocktails they had at one of their elaborate parties, each has a different set of laws your congressman or senator knows nothing about.

While the State of Illinois screwed up on my birth certificate, they fixed that for free. Was not so with typos done in Colombia or Venezuela, had to be done in their courts of law. And they sure screwed up, dumb basterds don't even know how to type. Court fees weren't too bad, but they wanted money under the table or you had to wait five years. In this respect, USA isn't so bad after all. But we still have way too many agencies that just started after WW II.

Have to check on the DOS their relationship with India or any other country for that matter.

[Udella&Wiz 325]

My Spouse and I got married in India and only have a marriage certificate issued by a State government, which we used to submit for our green card filing.

Will the USCIS accept this marriage certificate as valid? We never got a marriage certificate issued by any State in USA. Were we supposed to? My hunch is that if my Indian marriage certificate was good enough to get my spouse CR-1 Green Card and then Remove the Conditions then that's what we should submit now. For people who called their spouses to US based on CR-1, can you please let me know if you submitted your 'foreign' marriage certificate and if you had any issues with that.

thanks,

CS

If it was accepted before by USCIS, no reason to think they would change their mind now. If it was good enough to get the GC I don;t think you have anything to worry about.