Divorce/petition

[Eesaan 5]

I was married in a foreign country(I'm a USA citizen) I got a divorce for the foreign marriage in the USA.

I recently re-married in a foreign country,and now I want to petition for my new wife. Will the USA divorce be enough proof for USCIS? Or will I need to include my foreign divorce decree also?(Translation fees are hefty)

[canadian_wife 1,829]

You need your official divorce decree. If that is from the US, which your post suggests, that will be enough

Good luck

[pushbrk 13,260]

I was married in a foreign country(I'm a USA citizen) I got a divorce for the foreign marriage in the USA.

I recently re-married in a foreign country,and now I want to petition for my new wife. Will the USA divorce be enough proof for USCIS? Or will I need to include my foreign divorce decree also?(Translation fees are hefty)

Married is married and divorced is divorced. You don't need marriage certificates from two countries for the same marriage and you certainly don't need two divorce decrees for the termination of a single marriage. What you will need is the divorce decree with the earlier date of the two, if there ARE two divorce decrees. This is because the second is meaningless. If the earlier dated divorce decree is in a language other than English, it will need to be accompanied by a certified translation.

[Darnell 8,479]

photocopy of USC divorce decree (showing stamp of court) submitted with I-130.

*** not a K-3 visa topic, moving to IR-1/CR-1 forum ***

[pushbrk 13,260]

photocopy of USC divorce decree (showing stamp of court) submitted with I-130.

*** not a K-3 visa topic, moving to IR-1/CR-1 forum ***

Nice short answer but again, without knowing which divorce came first, we don't know which document is needed. In the same way a second legal marriage in a second country is "meaningless" as to marriage date or marriage certificate, a second divorce in a second country is equally meaningless. The valid divorce is the one with the earlier date.

[Darnell 8,479]

Push - if you reread the post, and the question, you'll get some insight on the question.

IMO, you've veered a bit, picking up something that's not there.

[pushbrk 13,260]

Push - if you reread the post, and the question, you'll get some insight on the question.

IMO, you've veered a bit, picking up something that's not there.

Copied and pasted so definitely "there" is this. "Or will I need to include my foreign divorce decree also?(Translation fees are hefty) " That's what I'm reading. If worried about translating a foreign decree, then he would already have obtained one from the US and a foreign country. Only the one that came first is meaningful. Waiting for clarification from the OP.

[Darnell 8,479]

'divorced in USA' trumps any 'foreign divorce translation' process.

I'm really surprised at you.

OK, la...

we wait.

[pushbrk 13,260]

'divorced in USA' trumps any 'foreign divorce translation' process.

No, it doesn't if a foreign divorce occurs first. One might get away with ignoring the first divorce granted in favor of the second one but the second is not needed in the USA, once the first occurs abroad. That's not necessarily the case for some countries in the reverse, however. The foreigner may need a divorce in their own country for various reasons but the USA recognizes divorce abroad in the same way we recognize marriages abroad.

If the first divorce was in the USA, the OP has his answer and has moved on. Regardless, no definitive answer is yet available to you, me or the readers.

Edited March 13, 2011 by pushbrk