marriage between interview and oath

[alwayswin 0]

Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw that my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?

I do have pictures of my marriage.

[alwayswin 0]

Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw that my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?

I do have pictures of my marriage.

I applied for the registration of marriage and my parents received the certificate from the court in India. They have mailed it to me but it has not reached here yet. My oath is day after tomorrow. I saw on the oath letter, it says that if I fail to bring any information requested, my naturalization application may be denied.

I want to know in this case will they deny my application or let me take the oath or postpone the oath until i get the certificate?

[annelizabeth 1]

Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw that my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?

I do have pictures of my marriage.

I applied for the registration of marriage and my parents received the certificate from the court in India. They have mailed it to me but it has not reached here yet. My oath is day after tomorrow. I saw on the oath letter, it says that if I fail to bring any information requested, my naturalization application may be denied.

I want to know in this case will they deny my application or let me take the oath or postpone the oath until i get the certificate?

Just out of interest, on what basis did you get your citizenship? Most of us here are applying for ours based on three years residency already married to a US citizen.

[alwayswin 0]

Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw that my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?

I do have pictures of my marriage.

I applied for the registration of marriage and my parents received the certificate from the court in India. They have mailed it to me but it has not reached here yet. My oath is day after tomorrow. I saw on the oath letter, it says that if I fail to bring any information requested, my naturalization application may be denied.

I want to know in this case will they deny my application or let me take the oath or postpone the oath until i get the certificate?

Just out of interest, on what basis did you get your citizenship? Most of us here are applying for ours based on three years residency already married to a US citizen.

5 years as permanent resident

[annelizabeth 1]

So, are you planning on bringing your new spouse over to the USA?

I imagine that is the reason why USCIS would be interested in any change of marital status. Although, if you had waited a few weeks to be married or had your oath ceremony the same day as your interview, it wouldn't make any difference. Sorry, can't be of more help.

I would, however, always recommend being up front with USCIS and explain your circumstances to them.

[NickD 202]

Since your interview:

Have you been married, or been widowed, separated or divorce? If yes bring documented proof of marriage, death, separation, or divorce.

Can certainly see why this applies if you used the three year marriage privilege, especially if you either killed or divorced your spouse, then remarried when you use that spouse to gain that three year privilege. But your USC application had nothing to do with marriage!

Kind of like that question as to how many days you have been out of the country in the last five years, we answered it literally, but wife's IO didn't like that answer as we were applying for the three year. Seems like they should have two forms one for the three year, another for the five year.

Difficult to see why your marriage should affect your citizenship, but not even God knows how the USCIS thinks if thinking isn't even part of their form questions. But would certainly tell them you did get married, but do not have documented proof of it for the reasons you stated. And see what happens. My guess is that your will receive your certificate and given congratulations for your marriage. We met an entirely different USCIS during our oath ceremony. Smiles, handshakes, good wishes, and hope you meet the same.

I call it our oath ceremony, actually just my wife's, but ours in the sense that it secures our relationship, least from the USCIS.

[alwayswin 0]

Thanks for all your replies. Took the oath, no problems faced. Before the judge came, during the check-in process, I told the immigration officer that I was now married and she asked me if I had a copy of the marriage certificate. I said yes (my dad had sent me a scanned copy by email and I had the printout). Then she said that the naturalization certificate shows the marital status on it so the certificate we have with us right now will be given to you during the oath ceremony, but after this is over, you can come to the office with us and we will print out a new certificate for you with the correct marital status and put the copy of your marriage certificate in the file so that they know why we changed it. And she added, that you have to get it done today coz if you don't then your file will be closed and then to get it done later on, you will have to pay some fees.

So after the ceremony, I went to the office and they gave me the new naturalization certificate with the corrected marital status in 5 minutes.

Hope all this info helps other people in future.

My immigration journey ends here and my wife's will start soon

[Ladylethal 12]

Congrats on becoming a citizen, could you please fill in your timeline as the statistics are important for VJ.

[NickD 202]

Thanks for all your replies. Took the oath, no problems faced. Before the judge came, during the check-in process, I told the immigration officer that I was now married and she asked me if I had a copy of the marriage certificate. I said yes (my dad had sent me a scanned copy by email and I had the printout). Then she said that the naturalization certificate shows the marital status on it so the certificate we have with us right now will be given to you during the oath ceremony, but after this is over, you can come to the office with us and we will print out a new certificate for you with the correct marital status and put the copy of your marriage certificate in the file so that they know why we changed it. And she added, that you have to get it done today coz if you don't then your file will be closed and then to get it done later on, you will have to pay some fees.

So after the ceremony, I went to the office and they gave me the new naturalization certificate with the corrected marital status in 5 minutes.

Hope all this info helps other people in future.

My immigration journey ends here and my wife's will start soon

Just shows how fast it is to bang out that certificate, you didn't mention gluing on your photo with the USCIS stamp on it, but hear some have a plastic laminate on it. Good to read your certificate for errors before leaving and those fees can be an extra 400 bucks for that five minutes.

A total of 83 characters were typed in my wife's certificate, looks like the preprinted certificate was printed out with a laser printer, while I haven't seen it done, with the different fonts, assume they are using fields for each section, in your case, delete Single in the marital status field and typed in Married and hit print. The authorization signature was done with a stamp, more than likely before the certificate was printed or also could have been done with the laser. Glue on your photo, stamp that with the seal, that's four hundred bucks please.

[alwayswin 0]

Thanks for all your replies. Took the oath, no problems faced. Before the judge came, during the check-in process, I told the immigration officer that I was now married and she asked me if I had a copy of the marriage certificate. I said yes (my dad had sent me a scanned copy by email and I had the printout). Then she said that the naturalization certificate shows the marital status on it so the certificate we have with us right now will be given to you during the oath ceremony, but after this is over, you can come to the office with us and we will print out a new certificate for you with the correct marital status and put the copy of your marriage certificate in the file so that they know why we changed it. And she added, that you have to get it done today coz if you don't then your file will be closed and then to get it done later on, you will have to pay some fees.

So after the ceremony, I went to the office and they gave me the new naturalization certificate with the corrected marital status in 5 minutes.

Hope all this info helps other people in future.

My immigration journey ends here and my wife's will start soon

Just shows how fast it is to bang out that certificate, you didn't mention gluing on your photo with the USCIS stamp on it, but hear some have a plastic laminate on it. Good to read your certificate for errors before leaving and those fees can be an extra 400 bucks for that five minutes.

A total of 83 characters were typed in my wife's certificate, looks like the preprinted certificate was printed out with a laser printer, while I haven't seen it done, with the different fonts, assume they are using fields for each section, in your case, delete Single in the marital status field and typed in Married and hit print. The authorization signature was done with a stamp, more than likely before the certificate was printed or also could have been done with the laser. Glue on your photo, stamp that with the seal, that's four hundred bucks please.

Yes you are absoutely right. They did transfer my photo from the old certificate to the new one......or maybe they just used the other photo coz i'm sure they keep a spare for mistakes like this and that is why 2 photos are requested with the application. Also the mark of the seal would have been difficult to match if they had used the same photo.