Birth Certificates

[Lindsey&Chris 0]

Hi guys!

My Fiance'e, Lindsey and I sent in all of our documents(I-129f etc)for the K1(Fiance) visa...anyways, we waited a crazy amount of time and finally after lots of stress and unhappiness, the documents have arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa(my home country) and they have emailed us packet 3, which is the checklist and a few forms you need to send back or take with to the interview. So after all of our hard work and preparation in the 7 months we have been waiting to get to this stage, we have found out that the birth certificate that they want at the interview is an "unabridged" one, which means it must have the details of both of my parents on it. I am obviously very unhappy about this as I was born in 1984 and was given a proof of registration of birth which has my DOB and my parents ID number on it,their names are not printed at all.I also have an original South African birth certificate which was issued to me(or probably my mom as I was too young) in 1984, it is green in color and only has my details of birth(DOB, names etc.). The birth certificate that they expect us to bring to the interview is neither of these according to my research but if I were to apply for the unabridged one it would possibly take up to 4 months which is very upsetting as we have all of the other documents(police clearance, forms etc.)ready for the interview. Does anybody know if they will accept my original birth certificate or even my proof of registration of birth(or both)? I really hope so because I would not like our marriage to be delayed 4 months due to 1 dumb piece of paper!

[MichelleClark 0]

unfortunately, they do need the un-abridged version of birth certificate. I went to home affairs and was told could take up to 6 months to get, i ranted and raged but applied for it and paid the fee. I was very pleasantly surprised when i got a message saying it was ready for collection 1 week later. Get the long version certificate- it will take longer if you get a RFE for incorrect docs

[Lindsey&Chris 0]

unfortunately, they do need the un-abridged version of birth certificate. I went to home affairs and was told could take up to 6 months to get, i ranted and raged but applied for it and paid the fee. I was very pleasantly surprised when i got a message saying it was ready for collection 1 week later. Get the long version certificate- it will take longer if you get a RFE for incorrect docs

Thanks for the help. I applied for it and have been nagging them for nearly 2 weeks now so hoping that it will come through soon...as it stands Iwill have to delay my flight because of this Hopefully they don't take too long as we are no longer employed(we had to resign from the cruise ships to do this visa).