ROM HELP!

[LarryB1968 4]

Hello, We just received our ROM documents back and they certified it but they did not add a apostille with the gold seal in the package. Can someone tell me why? It was the san francisco consulate. Everyone i see that has done videos on this received an apostille back with their documents. Can anyone help? thank you

[top_secret 2,354]

1 hour ago, LarryB1968 said:

Hello, We just received our ROM documents back and they certified it but they did not add a apostille with the gold seal in the package. Can someone tell me why? It was the San Francisco consulate. Everyone i see that has done videos on this received an apostille back with their documents. Can anyone help? thank you

Apostille on a ROM would only be done by DFA in the Philippines for a PSA Copy.  I can't think of anywhere right off where an Apostille would be important on a ROM.  I think you are mixing something up??  A ROM returned by the San Francisco consulate should only be certified.  Later you could get a PSA Certified copy.

Edited January 31, 2022 by top_secret

[Talako 778]

Yep, a little confusing on why the apostille is important. 

 

The ROM you get from the Consulate is basically the ROM returned with signatures, coding, and stamps.  When you get the certified marriage certificate from PSA, it is your ROM printed on official weird sized yellow paper.  That is pretty much it.

 

Both should work for just about everything. 

Edited January 31, 2022 by Talako

[LarryB1968 4]

That is what i thought to but i have watched now so many videos on youtube about people who have sent in their ROM documents and then showed what they got back and always a apostille was included so maybe they stopped issueing apostilles from the consulate here in the united states philippine embassies but many people have been given an apostille with their ROM documents which is why my wife in the philippines is really upset. Anyways thank you all for your help.

[Hank_ 9,174]

3 hours ago, LarryB1968 said:

Hello, We just received our ROM documents back and they certified it but they did not add a apostille with the gold seal in the package. Can someone tell me why? It was the san francisco consulate. Everyone i see that has done videos on this received an apostille back with their documents. Can anyone help? thank you

 

Not done that way and I can assure you it hasn't been done that way in over a decade.

 

What you received back should be a PSA copy of the document you submitted, and should have notations for its doc and file numbers ... 

[Corgent 93]

3 hours ago, LarryB1968 said:

That is what i thought to but i have watched now so many videos on youtube about people who have sent in their ROM documents and then showed what they got back and always a apostille was included so maybe they stopped issueing apostilles from the consulate here in the united states philippine embassies but many people have been given an apostille with their ROM documents which is why my wife in the philippines is really upset. Anyways thank you all for your help.

Maybe to put your wife's mind at ease, you can share one of those videos with us and someone can explain what you're seeing.

[LarryB1968 4]

Actually hank it was done that way and the consulate just informed us that they stopped doing that last year so they did indeed give an apostille with the return of the certified ROM documents but no longer do it that way.