Marriage issues in Ukraine

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Hello & Pryvit everyone.

I'm directing this mainly to other couples from Ukraine, but I'm sure others might have had the same experience.

I went to Ukraine with the intent of Marrying Iryna, and filing for the I-130/K-3. We had a beautiful wedding! However when we went to make our marriage 'legal', Ukraine wouldn't accept some of my paperwork.

The paper in question was a NC certificate of non-marriage. Not typically the type of paper people use in the states, it was hard to find and expensive. but the records only searched up to September 07 and our marriage was May 08. So Ukraine wouldn't accept it based on the fact that I may have been married to someone else within this 8 month period.

I'm curious if anyone else had an issue like this before and what they did about it.

I took an alternative route and applied for the K-1 visa and we'll just have a smaller wedding once she gets to the states.

l8ers

[payxibka 10,047]

Hello & Pryvit everyone.

I'm directing this mainly to other couples from Ukraine, but I'm sure others might have had the same experience.

I went to Ukraine with the intent of Marrying Iryna, and filing for the I-130/K-3. We had a beautiful wedding! However when we went to make our marriage 'legal', Ukraine wouldn't accept some of my paperwork.

The paper in question was a NC certificate of non-marriage. Not typically the type of paper people use in the states, it was hard to find and expensive. but the records only searched up to September 07 and our marriage was May 08. So Ukraine wouldn't accept it based on the fact that I may have been married to someone else within this 8 month period.

I'm curious if anyone else had an issue like this before and what they did about it.

I took an alternative route and applied for the K-1 visa and we'll just have a smaller wedding once she gets to the states.

l8ers

I assume you had your ceremony at Zags? I know there are many hoops to jump through before you get to Zags...All of which should have been jumped through before you even had your "ceremony". I know of a couple of people who have done this and they simply went to the vital statistics section in there county and have a printout of the search... it then gets "apostilled". I do not know what you actually did to get the "hard to find and expensive" piece of paper.

[Gaby&Talbert 1]

If you are filing for a K1 I would not mention anything about the wedding you already had or show pictures, etc. I have heard that some have been denied K1 visas because they were already married even if they didn't do it legally.

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I assume you had your ceremony at Zags? I know there are many hoops to jump through before you get to Zags...All of which should have been jumped through before you even had your "ceremony". I know of a couple of people who have done this and they simply went to the vital statistics section in there county and have a printout of the search... it then gets "apostilled". I do not know what you actually did to get the "hard to find and expensive" piece of paper.

We had an independent wedding then went to Zags (though this was interpreted to me as RAGS) to make it official. Iryna took care of most of the hoop jumping before hand very well. Also I got this printout about a week before I went to Ukraine and had it apostilled but it still wasn't good enough. Its not as if I go to a bunch of different countries getting married as if to set up a franchise.

It's not that it is an entirely bad thing, Going about it the K-3 way probably wouldn't have been too considerable of a time difference either way.

And no, we made no mention of our wedding in our K-1 application. I figured it would have made things difficult. We just consider ourselves "Unlawfully wed" B)