RFE advice needed.

[Randy12572 0]

I got an RFE.  You claimed in the Form I-130 that you were married three times. However, you only submitted a divorce decree with one of your prior spouses. You did not provide proof of marriage termination to your other ex-spouse. You also claimed that the beneficiary had married once, but the record included two marriage certificates between you and the beneficiary. Please explain this discrepancy. We were married by proxy in the US and also in the Philippines as I did not send to Philippine Embassy to have it recorded in NSO.  How should I respod?

[Lil bear 3,831]

4 minutes ago, Randy12572 said:

I got an RFE.  You claimed in the Form I-130 that you were married three times. However, you only submitted a divorce decree with one of your prior spouses. You did not provide proof of marriage termination to your other ex-spouse. You also claimed that the beneficiary had married once, but the record included two marriage certificates between you and the beneficiary. Please explain this discrepancy. We were married by proxy in the US and also in the Philippines as I did not send to Philippine Embassy to have it recorded in NSO.  How should I respod?

They wont accept 2 marriages to the one person as you tried to do…. You only married your present  spouse once .. the earlier dated event .. the second “marriage” isnt a marriage as you were already married to your spouse. Not sure whether you respond to the RFE  with a new I130 and an explaining cover letter or if there are other ways to sort this out. Hopefully others will chime in … 

[pushbrk 12,115]

1 hour ago, Lil bear said:

They wont accept 2 marriages to the one person as you tried to do…. You only married your present  spouse once .. the earlier dated event .. the second “marriage” isnt a marriage as you were already married to your spouse. Not sure whether you respond to the RFE  with a new I130 and an explaining cover letter or if there are other ways to sort this out. Hopefully others will chime in … 

Correct.  This is a mess and it's more than the above.  You can only marry a person twice if you divorce in between.  I'm not sure how you are going to clear this up exactly but first you will have to understand the truth yourself, then explain it in a letter.  You'll also need to provide the divorce decrees or death certificates to document ALL your previous marriages were legally over before you married your Pinay spouse by proxy.

 

If you married legally in the Philippines, that was totally improper as you were already legally and lawfully married to here.  When you are married, you are married, EVERYWHERE.

[JamesBz 7]

I also put I married twice because I married my wife in the Catholic Church then had a civil ceremony in the court. Online it asks to “include marriages to the same person”. Is this going to be a problem moving forward? I did upload two marriage certificates in my i130 However the church certificate was not sent to the PSA. only the civil were documents were sent to the PSA and stamped.

Edited April 25, 2022 by JamesBz

[RebeccaG 8]

On 4/25/2022 at 3:46 AM, JamesBz said:

I also put I married twice because I married my wife in the Catholic Church then had a civil ceremony in the court. Online it asks to “include marriages to the same person”. Is this going to be a problem moving forward? I did upload two marriage certificates in my i130 However the church certificate was not sent to the PSA. only the civil were documents were sent to the PSA and stamped.

Marriages to the same person means that you married once, divorced and then married again. Only marriages that are accepted by government officials should be included, it doesnt matter if you married in different churches/ceremonies, only the one accepted at the register office counts. 

 

For the question on the phillipines, the official in the foreign country told me that only the first marriage is legal, to get a second marriage in a different country you need to be divorced. For example, he told me that there is procedure to follow to include my US marriage in the Mexican records but it wont be a mexican marriage, it would be a US marriage validated in Mexican records.

[JamesBz 7]

Ok cool well now I understand. I guess we had a religous ceremony and later had a legal marriage solemnized by a judge. I have to get used to the immigration terminology as I am new to this process.