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Nich-Nick
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I know about divorce decrees in England. They look like this. (Image stolen from some website) Before we filed, I read alot of VJ posts about UK divorce decree RFEs. I wanted to point out the deta

aaron2020
aaron2020

You need to determine why the petition was denied. For some unknown reason, USCIS found your reply to the RFE to be flawed. Your response needs to address this unknown.

Deputy Purple
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Why appeal when it takes longer and costs more than filing a new petition? Double check the Divorce documents you provided, was it the final decree with all of the stamps from the Clerk of the Circui

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Mark + Melissa   49

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"Scotland: Available. If a divorce has taken place after May 1, 1984, a decree from the divorce is available from the Registrar General, New Register House, Edinburgh EH1 3YT.

His was from the Central Registrar, but it was RFE'd *sigh*

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Mark + Melissa   49

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In Scotland we don't have a decree absolute. Scottish and English legal systems are completely separate and different. This is my actual divorce decree. It is signed and stamped.

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That's what we sent, the first time.. but the copy sent to us was stamped, not signed. so he went back and got another one signed and stamped and that's what we sent in the second time. I'm thinking it's either his name not matching the rest of the documents, or the passport. I didn't know I had to send in all the blank pages too, and should have researched. I only sent the pages with information on them.

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ok.. here's the reason. He's divorced more than once. Apparently BOTH certificates of divorce from the Central Registrar in Scotland were unacceptable for not having signatures... and we only provided the latest divorce certificate because the wording of the RFE said "termination of prior marriage" and was singular all the way through the paragraph. We both mistakenly thought that meant just the LAST divorce decree was unacceptable.

NOPE.

It was both divorce decrees which were not signed but were stamped.

Gee... guess it doesn't matter that he was legally free to marry his last wife according to Scottish and UK laws.. the earlier divorce decree MUST be invalid and he wasn't free to marry his second Scottish wife according to the US CIS,...... btw - did I mention UK doesn't always sign divorce certificates?!

:angry::angry::angry:

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USCIS has always required proof of termination of all prior marriages. Sorry you had to learn about this way.

Our journey together on this earth has come to an end.

I will see you one day again, my love.

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The totally bizarre thing about this is that I remarried in Chicago, so my decree was good enough to get married in the US, provide the NVC with said Marriage Cert, yet not good enough for immigration...............

Give me strength!

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The totally bizarre thing about this is that I remarried in Chicago, so my decree was good enough to get married in the US, provide the NVC with said Marriage Cert, yet not good enough for immigration...............

Give me strength!

Lol

Even bigamists and polygamists can get marry. Generally, the US marriage systems in each state relies on the applicants to affirm they are free to marry. There is no system to check if a person has a legal divorce. The divorce court cases are not linked among the 50 states. It's not even possible for the local marriage registrar to determine if a person got divorced in the same locality.

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Did you read my response? When did you send back the RFE? When did you get the denial?

They won't deny for something like a name change or lack of evidence - they will send an RFE. If they already sent a RFE for something and you sent back an inadequate reply, then they will deny

:thumbs: Agreed! The documents are inadequate check them again, try to find out what exactly they are looking for. Best wishes!

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Nich-Nick Grand Master

Nich-Nick   3,354

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:thumbs: Agreed! The documents are inadequate check them again, try to find out what exactly they are looking for. Best wishes!

The OP needs no advice. They got a visa and were married over three years ago and the greencard has been issued. And if you read the thread, the reason was stated...needed divorce documents from TWO marriages and they only sent one.

#OldThread

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England.gifENGLAND ---

K-1 Timeline 4 months, 19 days 03-10-08 VSC to 7-29-08 Interview London

10-05-08 Married

AOS Timeline 5 months, 14 days 10-9-08 to 3-23-09 No interview

Removing Conditions Timeline 5 months, 20 days12-27-10 to 06-10-11 No interview

Citizenship Timeline 3 months, 26 days 12-31-11 Dallas to 4-26-12 Interview Houston

05-16-12 Oath ceremony

The journey from Fiancé to US citizenship:

4 years, 2 months, 6 days

243 pages of forms/documents submitted

No RFEs

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DJ6372   111

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The OP needs no advice. They got a visa and were married over three years ago and the greencard has been issued. And if you read the thread, the reason was stated...needed divorce documents from TWO marriages and they only sent one.

#OldThread

I actually replied to the wrong thread!

My post can be deleted

I take full ownership of being a muppet!

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Nich-Nick Grand Master

Nich-Nick   3,354

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I actually replied to the wrong thread!

My post can be deleted

I take full ownership of being a muppet!

Lol

Oh dear....singing the Muppet tune now. Dah dah dah... dah duh dah dah...

England.gifENGLAND ---

K-1 Timeline 4 months, 19 days 03-10-08 VSC to 7-29-08 Interview London

10-05-08 Married

AOS Timeline 5 months, 14 days 10-9-08 to 3-23-09 No interview

Removing Conditions Timeline 5 months, 20 days12-27-10 to 06-10-11 No interview

Citizenship Timeline 3 months, 26 days 12-31-11 Dallas to 4-26-12 Interview Houston

05-16-12 Oath ceremony

The journey from Fiancé to US citizenship:

4 years, 2 months, 6 days

243 pages of forms/documents submitted

No RFEs

Penguin_ie Grand Master

Penguin_ie   5,996

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****** closing 3 year old thread. Much of this discussion and information will be irrelevant by now; feel free to start your own thread about current questions/ issues *******

Bye: Penguin

Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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