Parents Birth and Marriage Cerificates - Is this true of all Embassies

[cshell 0]

I just got the correct Visa Tip Sheet from the Embassy for the K-1 visa.

For the Applcant and the Petetioner it states:

Please place your documents in the following order:

Civil documents

1. Birth certificate

2. Marriage certificate(s) (if any)

3. Death certificate of spouse (if any)

4. Divorce decree(s) (if any)

5. Parents birth and marriage certificates

Is this true that they need my parents birth and marriage certificates????? I do not have access to this information! Besides, I'm age 40, and my parents were divorced over 25 years ago. This is info I am not able to present in xerox or original form.

[Neonred 3,609]

Wasn't required for K-1 interview in Moscow. Why don't you e-mail them for clarification. We had a few problems with documents for our interview and I e-mailed the embassy in Moscow and they told me what to do if some documents were not available........"bring what you have" was their answer!

Anyway, good luck.

[cshell 0]

I called the embassy - the woman said I need it. I e-mailed the embassy and I am awaiting a response. I would love to know if anyone out there needed to present it, and didn't and still got the visa approved. I just called to Vitalcheck in NY which handles the birth, marriage and death certificates for the state of NY and I am unable to request the documents personally as my parents are alive.

[meauxna 15]

If you click on 'guyana' in the left margin, under your name, you'll go to a list of other users of your Consulate. Maybe one of them can answer your question--it is *very* Consulate-specific.

[cshell 0]

If you click on 'guyana' in the left margin, under your name, you'll go to a list of other users of your Consulate. Maybe one of them can answer your question--it is *very* Consulate-specific.

Thanks I did that - there is only one person who was appropriate to contact. At there interview 1 1/2 years ago it was not needed.

What I do not understand is how can the US gov't expect a USC to provide information that is not accessible to the USC!! It is truely permittible for them to ask that I provide documents that only my parents have access to?

[Adil Khan 0]

You're filing the K1 for your parents?

The problem I have for my mother is that she doesn't have a birth certificate.

What do I do then?

[cshell 0]

I am the USC filing a K-1 for my fiance but the embassy is asking that both he and I provide our Parents birth and marriage certificates. I am age 40 and they are requesting info on my parents who are in thier 60's. And the information they want I have no access to. The only way would be if I go to my parents and ask them to order these forms for me. Which I will not do and I know if asked they would not provide them. I can not understand how I can be asked to provide documents of which I am not legally able to obtain myself.

[iceyspots 0]

Algiers only asks for parents birth certificates.... Not Marriage certs though.

[cshell 0]

Algiers only asks for parents birth certificates.... Not Marriage certs though.

Interesting!! Was that for the interview itself or a RFE following the interview? for both the petitioner and beneficiary?

thanks

[JenT 0]

Frankfurt, Germany does not require anything for parents.

[lisaf 0]

perhaps its because some countries do not include the parents particulars ( date of birth, place of birth etc) on the childs birth certificate. ???