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Using the online form for I-130, the question is worded, “Where were you and your current spouse married?” It then has two drop down boxes, one for country and one for city/town. The question is under “Your Family - Current Spouse”

Hello! I’m back after finally completing the online marriage ceremony. For the I-130 form, I’m asked where we were at the time of the ceremony. Should I write Utah, or in China? We were together in our house in China while we completed the ceremony.

I have an additional question. My fiancé’s passport has his full name in Cyrillic. It only has his first and last name in Latin alphabet. Should he put his full name on our marriage certificate, or only his first and last name?

Thank you so much for this comprehensive info and your tips! This helps us a lot!!

Thank you so much! I’ll redirect future questions to the relevant forums.

My fiancé and I have been researching the K-1 visa but were recommend by that forum to try to get an online marriage from Utah instead, and then go for the CR1. We both live together in China and we both work here. I’m a US citizen and not Chinese. He’s a Russian citizen, also not Chinese. So we can’t get married in China as per Chinese law. I noticed on previous posts that it’s very important that we fill out the online marriage certificate in a certain way so that it is accepted as legitimate. Search results on this have been vague though. Has anyone done this? Is there anything we need to watch out for while we get the online marriage certificate?

Thank you for this information! I was concerned that the online marriage in Utah wouldn’t be accepted. Do you have any resources in regard to using that kind of document to apply for the CR-1?

Even though we live in China and the address is typically in Chinese?

China doesn’t allow foreign residents to get married here. One would have to be a Chinese citizen.

Hello. I’m a US citizen and my fiancé is a Russian citizen. We currently work and reside in China. We are filling out the I-129 form to petition the K-1 visa and we have a few questions. 1. Page 7 questions 50.a.-f. ask for fiancé’s address in native language. We live in China, so should he find a way to write it in Russian, use Chinese characters, or use pinyin? Actually, I have the same question for all of the address requests. Which alphabets should we use? 2. My fiancé broke a law and paid a fine in China. It’s not traffic-related so we must report it. Do we need to submit a copy of a police document? They didn’t supply him with any documents after the fact, but we can request a copy of the form he had signed there. Next, do I need to have it translated into English? 3. We live together in China. Is our house registration enough to show we have met in the past two years? Or we would still need some recent trip tickets? 4. Is it alright if I send the form by DHL to US from China? Or I need to physically be in the US for it to be accepted?