Marriage process changing in Alabama, will that affect K-1 holders?

[Daevian 0]

They are revamping the whole process in the state and making it more like a notarized contract, is that going to affect K-1 or it's just going to simplify the whole process?

 

https://www.al.com/news/2019/08/getting-married-in-alabama-changing-aug-29.html

[Just Paul 4,591]

SImplifies the process.  Pretty straightforward.  No waiting period.

[payxibka 10,044]

Married is married.   That's the standard that must be met 

[Falcon Cara 377]

1 hour ago, Daevian said:

They are revamping the whole process in the state and making it more like a notarized contract, is that going to affect K-1 or it's just going to simplify the whole process?

 

https://www.al.com/news/2019/08/getting-married-in-alabama-changing-aug-29.html

Interesting, Seems to take out all the romance and pomp about getting married and make it like a contract.  Seems to make it much easier.

[AlaMike 216]

Being from Alabama I can shed some light on the subject.

One of the reasons for the change is that some Probate Judges refused to sign marriage licenses for same sex couples based on their religious beliefs.

This takes the process of applying for a marriage license and have a judges "approve" and sign. Now they are only required to file them.

[Daevian 0]

What worries me is that the document being used to marry like this doesn't ask for any copy of a document to identify yourself, only "official" part that links the document to who you are is the SSN part but being a K-1 would make it take longer if being forced to wait to get it.

 

http://www.alabamapublichealth.gov/vitalrecords/assets/applicationandinstructionsadults.pdf

 

That's the document that's being used and it doesn't ask for a copy of your passport or any kind of ID, just asks for the SSN, so I wonder if you need to get the SSN so there's no problems with AOS later on, or I'm being dumb and I'm not seeing how they can link a document like that to you without proper identification.