Divorce Decree or Divorce Cert

[AandD 20]

Either one works for USCIS. I sent a copy of the divorce decree, mine was only 4 pages. I also just received an official divorce certifcate and will send that to my fiancee so she can have at the interview, just in case they ask for it.

Good luck !

If it doesn't say "absolute decree" count on an RFE...

[IBLP 1]

ok...

Edited March 16, 2010 by IBLP

[IBLP 1]

It looks like we wl have to wait for the "cheese" to resend it...

Thank u all for the information and yr time

Wish u all the best..

I just sent in my I-129F. I had a copy of the signature page that stated divorce decree was official, but it was not the final version with county clerk filing date stamp. And when a lawyer I had helping me reviewed it he pointed it out as likely red flag.

So even though it ended up delaying my sending in the I-129F by 3 weeks, as it turned out, I called the county/court clerk and requested an official certified copy of the divorce decree.

Mine is several pages long, has the final decree page with all official signatures including filing date stamp of the clerk's office and it says "certified" copy and signed by clerk, and has a gold seal stuck on the spot where the photocopied seal is.

It looks real cheesy, like a gold embossed stamp I coulda got from K-mart, but it's what they give. So I photocopied that and included it in the I-129F application. And I will bring the original with the cheesy gold stamp to our interview.

[pushbrk 12,897]

If it doesn't say "absolute decree" count on an RFE...

This is country and/or State specific. Most US divorce decrees do not contain the word "absolute". Massachusetts and perhaps other "Commonwealths" use that terminology.

[AandD 20]

Thanks for the clairification.

I was speaking from the language our RFE asked for an "absolute Decree"...but I did not realize the RFE was cutomzed for Massachusetts....but it seems it must have been. I apologize for my assumption ...giving out bad info.gezzz...bad vj member...lol

[Carolina+James 1]

James is not home atm, but I will type what I find in his divorce papers:

The document is named "Decree of Divorce", it has lawyer stamps on all pages, is signed by a judge and the lawyer at the end.

So from what I understand, what USCIS wants to know is if your divorce was granted, which means that you can legally marry again. So a document that only says you are applying for the divorce would not be enough. So the tittle could be different, read thru the document and see what it says, might be just there but named differently.