Reporting of Marriage

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Hello everyone I have a few questions and I hope someone here can help me to answer them.

1. When sending the marriage certificate to the embassy for report of marriage, what constitues a "certified" copy, would a black and white printout from the county clerk with the clerks stamp be sufficient?

2. How long does it take to received the needed papers back to then go ahead and renew the philippine passport under the married name.

I have a unique issue due to the fact that my wifes greencard was produced using her mothers maiden name as her middle name, however, per her customs her middle name should have been changed to her fathers last name. Since the greencard is incorrect, we have asked for a replacement with the new correct name, however, we haven't heard anything back about that yet.

Also, my wife is planning to go home on November 20th and she will be staying for about 40 days, and her plan was to get the marriage report done and then have her passport renewed while she is in the Philippines, is this a viable option? We cannot afford to go to the embassy to get it done here, as it is too far.

Last but not least, when coming back to the USA, will the fact that her current green card has the wrong middle initial affect her reentry if her new passport is correctly done with her fathers last name as her middle name. The green card has her mothers maiden name as the middle name. Will this be a problem? Or if she takes a copy of our marriage certificate through customs should this be ok until we get it resolved. We hope to have the green card resolved before she leaves, but we all know how long it can take USCIS to reprint a card...or do anything for that matter.

Please help me figure this out for those of you that have done this before.

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help!