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You can try to call them using the numbers provided below: Their online link is broken (you might tell them that too when you talk to them).

Copies of court documents - including orders regarding dissolutions of marriage and judgments of dissolutions, probate, wills, name changes, criminal and civil cases - are available at a district headquarters courthouse in which the matter was handled, or if it is an older record at the Los Angeles County Superior Court Archives. Check at a district headquarters courthouse - see "Superior Courts" for a listing of the district courts or go to lasuperiorcourt.org to determine where the file is stored. (No phone orders will be accepted).

Some post-1999 civil case documents may be online at http://lasuperiorcourt.org/Online/CivilImages.

For the Central District Court, you may visit or write the certification section in Rm. 112 at the Stanley Mosk Courthouse, 111 N. Hill St., Los Angeles or call (213) 974-5191 for information. (No phone orders will be accepted.)

To order documents from the Archives requires having a case number, names of the parties and what document you want copied. If you have the names of the parties and the year the case was filed, but no case number, and it was filed in 1965 or earlier, you may request the case number by calling the civil index clerk at (213) 974-1378. If the case was filed after 1965, call the civil index clerk at (213) 974-5171.

--Purchase case document copies in person at the Archives, 222 N. Hill St., Los Angeles, between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m. weekdays, except holidays. Phone (213) 974-5191.

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Yup they could do, and you have to be tough because next interview is gonna be cruel Stoke one.

What does that mean?

I was still married when my wife and I met. Our total time line overlaps for almost a year. It has nothing to do with being qualified. I proposed two weeks after my divorce was finalized. A lot of different things happen in life for a lot of different reasons. I don't have to explain myself to anyone but my wife and my conscience.

Both of those are clear. You only got one shot at life and if you are not happy then you need to do everything you can to fix it or bail out which ever makes the most sense for your situation.

I disagree with the post that says she doesn't need the NBI in her previous married name. My wife was married before but never used the married name but we have it on good authority that the CO will want the NBI in 'all names' she has used. maiden, former married and current married.

It's $20 to get it now. You don't want to get to your interview and then get slapped with a 221g for something that can take weeks or a day to obtain.

I sent my wife back to get her's in her married name and she had a hit previously but was cleared 2 weeks later. This time she went there and didn't tell them or show them the old NBI that shows she was previously cleared and now she won't get her new NBI for 5 weeks. If this had came up during the interview and we are ready to fly home together, that kind of time line would suck and screw up everything, so it's definitely better to get it now, spend the $20 and have it than need it and not have it at the interview.

Man..... This whole " deciding who's getting my money and property when I die" thing is a mess and scary. So much risk in these important decisions.

I decided to put my wife on my existing LI policy but I added her as an equal 1/3 with the remaining 2/3rd's going to my kids from another marriage. Just because you put her on your LI doesn't mean he has to be the sole beneficiary. You are still in control of what he gets and how he gets it. Create a will for more specific wishes, such as who would take care of your children, and who would be their executor of their money you are leaving for them in your existing LI policy.

yes you can claim your US citizen children on your tax return as long as you provide more than half of the support for them. you have to have documentation of providing support for them and the children need a US SSN or ITIN. The age of the kids is another factor, they must be under 19 or a full time student under 24, or permanently disabled at any age.

I had filed for an ITN number for my two step children that I support 100% but when the petition was denied by the IRS, their legal support 'team' who was helping me decipher why the petition was denied told me that the children must be in the US for you to claim them.

The reason stated was the citizenry issue. They are not LPR's nor are they USC's.

I did live in the Philippines with them for six months. Does that count???

If there is another 'truth' out there. I surely would love to hear it and how can i go about getting them an ITN number....

Hi all,

I am filing an I-130 for my wife of almost 2 years. We lived together almost a year but my name was never on the lease, however I do have passport stamps showing us entering and exiting China at the same times. I sent 4 years worth of emails, a few letters she sent me, 5 affadavits, quite a few photos, plane tickets showing us traveling together, a few western union receipts that I could find, I also put her on my bank account as POD because they wouldn't let me do anything else without a SSN. [\b]

I went to my bank and showed them the list of requirements for my wife's immigration. One of the critical primary bonefides was a joint bank account.

They allowed me to open the account and send her the signature documents. She signed them and returned them to me and I submitted them to my bank.

Now she is on my primary bank account.

So, even if she doesn't have an SSN, it can still be done. Just take the documentation spelling out the requirement and why you need it and talk with them. Most likely they will work with you to achieve it.

you need to down load a w-7 form from the IRS.gov you both need to sign it. a copy of your marriage, and id.you will need the itin number for your wife to put on your joint return 1040. the department that handles that is in auston texas when you get your itin number an ready to send your taxes in it must go to auston taxes,irs. wait until you receive the itin number, read the instructions on the w-7 carefully.

That's not correct.

I had applied for my wife's ITN number a few months ago in preparation of filing my 2011 taxes. The request was denied because I didn't supply the tax return.

I was confused, what tax return I haven't done it yet? so after many hours trying to get through to them. I found out we need certified copies of her passport and marriage license (proof of identity), the W-7 and 1040(x) you are filing as well as a letter from her telling the IRS that she wants to be considered a resident alien for tax filing purposes for 2011.

This came from the IRS legal department who helped me.

They tell you that it will be delayed if your submit it during the busy season, but they won't allow you to do it outside of filing your tax return so of course its the busy season.

What are they doing all year long in outside of the 3-5 months of tax season????

do not do it in the philippines do a k-1 visa faster

Might be faster by a month or two, and if you have an extra $1000 for the Adjustment of Status filing and that time wasted waiting versus getting married first, applying for CIR-1 and once she gets in the US she gets her green card within a week or two. No more filing needed until ROC in two years time.

I researched this a lot before I made the marriage leap there. At the time the wait was about equal but now it has slipped a bit to 6-8 months. (fingersXd).

My wife and just got married on January 5 in Cebu. Here are the steps we needed in order to get married

1. obtain Affidavit in Lieu of legal capacity to marry from the US Consulate

2. obtain CENOMAR for my wife as well as myself (USC)from NSO

3. obtain barangay clearance for my wife from her local barangay hall

4. obtain birth certificate for both my wife and myself

5. file with Local Civil Registrar

6. Wait 10 days

7. Obtain marriage license from Civil Registrar

8. get married

9. obtain marriage certificate from person performing ceremony

These are requirements for the civil registrar in Mandaue City. They may be different depending on your spouses local civil registrar. My wife went to the civil registrar and asked all the requirements for her to marry a foreigner.

my wife will file with civil registrar to expedite the processing of our marriage certificate so that they can forward it to NSO. Once with NSO she will pick up the NSO authenticated marriage certificate with which she will change her name of on all her documents to her married name. I am currently filing I-130.

Congratulations!

Once you get married and you get your marriage certificate from the local registrar office. REQUEST an electronic endorsement for the docs because if they don't get it right and they send your marriage certificate to manila it will take over 6 months to get it resolved. This was the advise I was given by the supervisor at the NSO office in Butuan when our marriage certificate still hadn't showed up yet. I then took the electronic endorsement to our local NSO office (that she also told me about) in Surigao and we were able to get our marriage certificate within 15 minutes.

You do not have to return home right away, you can send your paperwork from overseas to the US if you have it all together and you wish to do that. In order to file at the USCIS field office in Manila, you will have to live in the Philippines on a long-term stay visa or residence permit for 6 or more months. Tourist visa extensions will not count.

No, she is not required to change her name at all.

You complete an I-864, one of your parents as a joint sponsor completes an I-864, the other parent completes the I-864A.

I was advised by a person who handles many many immigration issues for another board, that we should get my wife's passport changed to her married name. Especially since we had filed every document using her married name. The concern was the embassy would require the change and cause unnecessary delays since it can be handled while waiting for the USCIS to complete their tasks.

OP - You wife will need to take her passport, completed CFO form, marriage certificate and all documents you have about your relationship with her to the CFO seminar where she will get her certificate of attendance for attending the CFO counseling session. She will then need to take that to the local CFO office where they will give her a [GCC]ertificate which she can use at the DFA to get her passport in her married name.

Recording phone calls can be illegal in some states.

Threats are a very bad idea because one can be charged by doing that to someone else.

Best option is change the email change the phone number do not respond to this person at all and cut them out of their life. It should have been done long ago when that relation was ended and the original marriage was being mended.

It depends on which state you are in. Some states allow it if at least one of the parties involved know the conversation is being recorded.

The U.S. federal law allows recording of phone calls and other electronic communications with the consent of at least one party to the call. A majority of the states and territories have adopted wiretapping statutes based on the federal law, although most have also extended the law to cover in-person conversations. 38 states and the D.C. permit recording telephone conversations to which they are a party without informing the other parties that they are doing so.

12 states require, under most circumstances, the consent of all parties to a conversation. Those jurisdictions are California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Washington.

-http://www.callcorder.com/phone-recording-law-america.htm

perhaps the same US Citizen wanted nothing to do with the process.

You are wrong.

It sounds like the husband should have put a little more thought into that before he went over there and married her.

According to philippine law she can't move on with her life.

She can't find a filipino husband and have children that won't be illegitimate.

She can't realistically find a new foreign fiancee unless she is released from her 'marriage'. Unless she were to pay for an annulment, but most filipinas don't have the money for that.

The USC signed on the dotted line and if he is bailing out without cause, then he owes her that much to give her back her freedom to find someone else.

The foreign husband only has to file a simple divorce and they are both freed, but in this particular case, he has just disappeared. Now she is stuck in a 'marriage' that really isn't a marriage. She is being 'teased' with the prospect of escaping to the US because her visa is basically sitting there waiting for her at the embassy yet she has no real hope of getting it.

Everyone of you knows as well as i do the irresistible pull that visa has on her. American's typically have a sense of fair play, and if 'she' has played by the rules and went through the process and now its her 'husband- and i use that term loosely ' who has abdicated his role, why is she being victimized for wanting to see if her dreams are dead or not? They most likely are, but why do members of this forum take such delight in tossing her into the sea after her marriage has already hit the rocks?

I'm not saying she is going to get it. The law is the law, but for so many people to be broadsiding her is just vicious in my opinion. Is she the one who ran off after getting her visa like many other scammers do? No she met someone, they dated enough to get married and then they were separated for a very long time.

The USG seems to believe that fiancees deserve faster case resolutions than a spousal case. Marriages can and do die from neglect or absence just as much as a 'fiancee' situation.

Is it just me or doesn't Kang seem like a troll.

He doesn't have any photos, or avatar. No time line, no particular visa. He is just out looking to start a fight.

Is there a moderator in the house? .....

Congrats.

I'm new here, but it definitely seems like a lot of folks on this board love to let lose with complete broadsides on people.

This lady may have done nothing. This could be a case where the long delay brought on by our favorite government agency, the INS and all its derivatives, took so long that the husband ended up having an affair and has started a new relationship with someone closer to home.

How is this the girls fault? Of course she wants to complete the process. Of course she is ever the optimist.

She is not a fly by night fiancee gold digger. The USC came over and signed on the dotted line. He made her his wife. If he has abandoned her, he at least owes her the courtesy to inform her as well as give her a divorce so she can move on with her life too.

How would you feel if you still love your spouse. You are separated from your spouse through no fault of your own. The bureaucratic red tape has kept you apart for so long that in every real possibility it seems your marriage has ended and nobody bothered to tell you it had or much less why?

You have family back at home whom you have been defending your relationship and your husband for this many months/years.

Now when you find out your ticket to America is waiting at the embassy for you. What would you do?

I'm no wide eyed innocent, and I know all about filipina scams, but in this case where they actually got married and it has been 2+ yrs since he filed there are more questions than just what happened in the last 6 months.

Why was the CR-1 delayed past 2009? past 2010? all of 2011?

Any idea on how this differs for CIR-1 applicants and not K-1 applicants?

thanks,

My wife needed to get a PCC from Japan. We don't have a request letter from the US Embassy. I called the Japanese Consulate and told them we wanted to get a head start on this since their processing time states it can take up to 3 months to obtain the PCC.

My Wife took her passport thats it.

It probably didn't hurt that the guy she spoke with was the same guy I had called and made inquiries about it. He had originally stated we needed the letter from the embassy but I told him we didn't have it and we knew we would need the PCC so we were working to get it done ahead of time so as to not lose any more time waiting.

We picked it up a few weeks later.

My wife just went through this process last week. She went to St. Mary's in Cebu. Ughhhh!!!! Man these nun's were a bunch of jerk(ette)s. They were hassling everyone trying to convince them not to marry their foreigner bf. In our case we are already married so that horse had already left the barn, but they still singled her out because I have a few divorces in my past. They harassed her for hours and she ended up having to stay in Cebu for an extra day because she ran out of time going back and forth getting all of the documents from me each time they came up with a new demand.

She completed the seminar, then she went to the CFO office where she obtained her GCCertificate.

She then took this document with her to the DFA in Butuan and she was able to get her passport renewed in her married name.

I think you should figure on needing the GCC and not hope your DFA experience is like the person who went to General Santos. After checking on another board I found out this was a hard and fast rule, but I guess there are always lucky exceptions but you just can't count on being one of them.

No need for a copy of that. Just show them your marriage certificate.

Agreed. I used a immigration service and we didn't include the certificate to marry since we had already gotten married and we used out marriage certificate.

This is good info. We will be getting our NOA2 in the near future, and I've been confused about this part of the process. Thanks guys.

One last question:

Does she have to pay it locally or is this something I can pay here in the States and she can print out a receipt?

Hrllo Dave thanks for your help, yeah it's kinda weird because its easier for mento change my last name in y passport as long as you show them your marr. Cert. Your good. Yeah it's such a pain to change last name when women got married:)

Theres no harm in trying I will just try and explain thoroughly fr them to change it:)

thanks and have a wonderful day!!!!

Godspeed!!!

You also must have your CFO document (GCC certificate) in order to get the new passport in your married name. This is one of the DFA's hard and fast rules.

Hrllo Dave thanks for your help, yeah it's kinda weird because its easier for mento change my last name in y passport as long as you show them your marr. Cert. Your good. Yeah it's such a pain to change last name when women got married:)

Theres no harm in trying I will just try and explain thoroughly fr them to change it:)

thanks and have a wonderful day!!!!

Godspeed!!!

You also must have your CFO document (GCC certificate) in order to get the new passport in your married name. This is one of the DFA's hard and fast rules.

Why didn't you file your CIR-1 documents using your married name initially?

We did, and I have now had my wife go renew her passport even though it would have still been valid though 2013. Its a little bit of a headache, because you need the CFO GCC certificate in order to get your passport in your married name, but now when she goes to the interview and obtains her visa it will be in her new machine readable passport.

My fiance is a lot younger than me, better educated than me...she has a 4 year degree, vs 2 for me, and she is exploring med school when she arrives here. She is also a RN, very beautiful and is not desperate for me or any man. She and I have many common interests and both enjoy life to the fullest, our age diff is just numerical.

That said, I take offense to Enigma's post and find it insulting....I will say that I have found, in most instances, people with such a narrow minded opinion are usually older women, or old guys who can't get a younger woman, or are with an older woman and are a bit jealous...but thats my 2cents.

IMO, live and let live, everyone else can bite me.

I agree with you.

Enigma is the only one who has found true love... so self righteous. I got news for you Enigma, if your fiancee/wife's standard of living doesn't match yours, then you have just as much to worry about as any person here who's wife is younger.

Naw you're probably right, nobody has ever married a guy her own age just to get to the states....and then run off.

Worry about yourself and let others worry about their lives.