Kanke

I do understand that not all countries provide this document and apparently the US embassies operating in such countries may or may not request this document. Relating it to your situation... Firstly, you don't need to prepare this certificate unless you are requested and it's in the embassies document checklist. So you need to check on that. If however it becomes a requirement by your domestic US embassy to present this document, you can at least take the following actions... As far as I know, it's mostly the government manicipality office which deals with marital-related affairs, just go ahead and consult the matter with your local manicipality office by presenting them the letter in which the embassy requested the doc. And I am sure the manicipality office may have some remedial guidance. If the manicipality office insists processing this document is not under their mandate and as such they never entertained it, then you may request them to write a letter to the embassy explaining the matter. I hope this way you can resolve it. Lastly, I beleive that people in your country who have faced similar issue will be of much help to guide you on the matter. So try searching for them in social networks.

Leave your nonsense aside and support your arguments with evidences or else zip it here. Back to the issue, it might be so in your case and of course you had to present the CENOMAR to support that you had no other marriage, as you were waiting for spousal visa. Here, we may assume and it makes sense to argue one possible reason why the embassy needed the certificate is to just proof that you are not attempting to escape from any other marriage. However, your scenario becomes irrelevant to cases like F2B and F11, where the benificiaries are required to remain unmarried/single throughout their process, not only in their country, but also any where they lived. Not being so jeopardises their visa cases. For such cases, there is no other way or documentation the benificiaries can proof their no-marriage status except by presenting CENOMAR. I have challenged the participants of this discussion including you to suggest any other way or option to reslove such issues, non of you suggested one. Infact there is no other explanation why these days quite a number of US and even other embassies request this document except to ascertain that the applicant isn't married or single. I had my cousin and brother who had gone through similar scenario when they appeared for their family preference immigrant visa. They were stuck and required to present a CENOMAR during their interview at the embassies. And after presenting those documents, the embassy granted them their visa. If this certificate had no relevance to proof the no-marriage of the applicant of F2B and F11, then why did the embassies have to request it???

As you yourself admitted it, the fact that this document is requested at least by some embassies (in the tiny minority nationalities, as you described it) shows that the non-marital certificate is a legitimate way to support your no marriage status.

Yes brother, based on other's experiences, the best way to back your no "marriage status" is by providing authentic non-marital certificate. I hope this clarifies your doubt.

You see, referring to the non-marital certificate, earlier you said "such documents are not requested or required by the state department", which is a complete bogus. As a matter of fact, it's a requirement by most embassies and immigration departments of most countries to support your claim of being single with a non-marital document. Having said that, you are still not able to explain why embassies have to request this document, if it doesn't serve them to as evidence to proof that the person is never married. This indicates that the most acceptable documentation to proof that you are not married is by showing an authentic non-marital certificate, end of strory! Unless you can proof me wrong on my statement that "immigration departments and embassies are requesting this document as proof of no marriage", it appears pointless and illogical to discuss further.

It doesn't make sense at all to say that 'there is no way to proof a negative.' I think you are the one who is missing critical point here. We have seen the state department requesting non-marital certificate for those cases wherein the benificiary has to remain unmarried until getting his/her green card. If you think your statement and generalisation holds true, perhaps you need to explain why state department/US embassies and even other embassies have to request a non-marital certificate for the F2B visa categories as proof of being single and never married.

Regardless, the only legitimate way through which a visa applicant can proof to the embassy that he/she has never been married is by providing non-marital document given by local government manicipality. And that's what embassies and other officials usually request as proof of non-marriage status. I believe that is what the questioner is trying to ask. In interest of the questioner, it would be more befitting to suggest any other way you know of to support his claim of being "never married" to the embassy through documentation than generalising that there is no way to proof. I beleive that would be of much help to the questioner.

One acceptable way to proof your non-marital status is perhaps by providing document's given by your local government manicipality office. I think that's the best way you can proof your claim of non-marriage to the embassy and NVC. I don't see any other legitimate way to proof that you are non-married.

Hi Katelyn, Can you share the latest data regarding IL from the telegram group you are in?

Just following this thread. .. Has the US embassy in Ethiopia started sending UK for those cases DQ in early 2021? Any updates are well appreciated