Marriage certificate and CR1

[teeler1 0]

When filing the CR1, what is the USA looking for on the marriage certificate? I am remaking this so it is less confusing for readers. I solely want to know what the USA is looking for. Do they want to confirm it is valid in the government and legal of X country as well or do they simply want to see a marriage between two people? Thank you in advance

[Penguin_ie 5,994]

**** Moving from General Immigration to CR-1 forum ****

It needs to be a legal marriage certificate.

[NikLR 13,227]

You can't remake a marriage certificate. It needs to be a photocopy of the original legal certificate you were given plus a translation if it's not in english.

Edited December 7, 2013 by NLR

[NickD 203]

Not sure what your question is, in regards to which countries the marriage was performed in, this may help.

http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Does_the_US_recognize_out_of_the_country_marriages#slide1

But the US may not recognize a marriage between a male spouse and four separate woman that is legal in other countries.

For me to get married in my wife's home country, that was way too complicated, plus we had no intention of living there. But we did get our marriage registered in her home country at a latter date. Due to severe time restrains with the imposed laws by the USCIS, we elected to get married by a federal judge. Just told me to call him in the morning and would be happy to marry us during one of his many recesses and even could provide plenty of witnesses. But we had our own that were free to move at a moments notice. Could also get our marriage certificate instantly that we needed for the USCIS. He was wonderful to us. And no translations required, and no qualms with the USCIS with a federal judge signature on our marriage certificate.

Church wedding was out for us, could take months, always can get that marriage blessed later. Also no laws that state your wedding reception must be held on the same day. With my family, was a week later, with my wife's, a year later, couldn't leave until she had that green card and she didn't want to fork out 300 bucks for a traveling document.

Also no law that you must go on your honeymoon the same day. We spent this time completely our immigration forms, and yes, after the forms were submitted, we could really enjoy our honeymoon with that burden out of the way.

Really the only thing of importance in your marriage is to keep the USCIS happy, if you don't, won't even have a marriage. Unless you enjoy being 4,000 miles apart.