nervous, about marrying too soon

[LunarStar 1]

Just an update: Im legally married and just came back from a usa embassy to have my marriage certificate translation into English notarized and got some new information that left me confused

1) They said I still wasn't done notarizing my marriage or something like that. I know I should've asked them to be more clear(just got over some bad food poisoning for the 5th time this year), but I didn't press it further because I'm like "The USA embassy clearly listed the steps, and after I translated my marriage and had you guys sign the paper notarizing it, what else is there to do? As far as the site says, I'm done..." And when I did a search in the forum, I found a topic saying I needed 3 pages containing certain stuff which I clearly have

And a heads up to people who do this in Japan. On the USA embassy site for the translation forms for the marriage certificate, they are apparently wrong. The service lady today told me that the paper I printed from the USA Embassy website in Japan was actually a form for passport changes. That's nice to kn

2)They also said the hubs needs a police certificate from the US, since he lived there abroad for a year(technically 8 months). I did a forum search just now and a lot of people here said thats false, but this was from 2008, so any updates on that?

3)And lastly, that this whole process will cost $2,500(filing fee, getting documents, sending documents ) but that doesn't sound right...

yeah...this is all just new to me and different from what I read so far. But atleast the person who gave me this information today did say I could file from Japan. The last time I went, they said I'd have to wait to go back to America, and than I could file for the I-130.

[danzz 11]

I believe they need a police certificate for every country where the beneficiary has lived over 6 months, but that's at the NVC stage, not USCIS.

The price you're quoting seems a bit high but about right, depending on the cost of translating documents. The fees alone come close to 1000$, then you have translations, medical visits, mail, other random costs.

You can file from Japan and should, make sure to read the thread about the filling-from-abroad fast lane at USCIS.