RFE confusion

[Sinergy 3]

I received the RFE today, it has me a bit confused.

Here is what it reads:

Submit photocopies of the documents requested.

MARRIAGE CERTIFICATE: Submit a marriage certificate issued by the civil authorities for Tara Beth Miller and Eduard Ionescu. The certificate must indicate that after the marriage ceremony, it was registered or recorded by the county,state, or province.

OK, the only marriage certificate I have is the one we got in romania, and its not legal due to some problems my ex husband placed upon me 10 years ago and i wasnt even aware until i tried to have my name changed. Therefore our romanian marriage certificate isnt worth much. I did however send it though as a proof of relationship, and it is translated on the actual document from Romanian into English and French.

next:

FOREIGN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTS: Any document containing a language other than english must be submitted with a full english translation. The translator must certify that the translation is complete and accurate and that he or she is competent to translate. NOTE: the requested foreign language document must be submitted with the english translation.

I sent no document in with romanian. Everything i sent in was in english already. I think i sent in a photocopy of his passport and ID and birth certificate, but i dunno, im really stressing over this.

Tara

[Sinergy 3]

nevermind i FINALLY got ahold of my lawyer and everything is fine. I can have the RFE sent out tomorrow morning same day delivery.

[dxt7339 1]

Would you explain what the issue was and how you resolved it without much problem? It would be interesting to the rest of us, I think.

[meauxna 15]

Well???! What was it? I ws wondering if this was a hangover from your old case....

Nosy, me

[Dixie_Peach 1]

whew! glad that you can fix that quickly! wishing you the best!

[Sinergy 3]

Ok first the divorse/marriage bulls**t!

I filed for divorse from my ex husband 10 YEARS ago through one of those quicky divorse lawyers. It cost me $250 and i did NOT have to appear in court. I was later sent a divorse notice (which God forbid me after all of the moving I have done and one fire in my apartment, not sure where that thing is). Anyway i went back to romania in January of 05 for the intent of getting married to Ed. We did so, I signed something stating i was eligible to marry in romania bla bla. Well when I came back to Florida I tried to change my name, they let me change my name on my DL, but not on my ss card, i had to go to the court house to have it legally changed. So when i did so they told me I was not able to use my current romanian marriage cert because it was invalid due to i was still OMG STILL married to my ex husband!! So I had to hire another lawyer, and i did, one of the best here in my city, to make sure it was done RIGHT. It was, and i am not married to my ex FINALLY! imagine his surprise too when 10 yrs later hes being asked to sign another divorse paper. Anyway so our romanian marriage is NOT valid. But I did send it in as proof of relationship AND stated in my intent to marry letter all the info i just gave to all of you.

So now they send me an RFE asking me for a marriage certificate for me and Ed and well its above.

I finally contacted my lawyer, and he said to just write a letter explaining AGAIN all of this, that there is NO valid marriage cert for us, therefore me filing for the FIANCE VISA! And he said to go ahead and attach the romanian marriage certificate anyway with the explanation.

phew, i believe thats it

And theres an A# on the RFE, i thought those were given AFTER an approval.

Edited February 27, 2006 by Ionescu

[Peter Miami 0]

That is what I was going to tell you. Too write a detailed letter explaining everything in detail.

Good luck,

Peter Miami

[Sinergy 3]

Thats what Ive done, and Peter Miami i pm'ed ya

[Miranda&James 8]

And theres an A# on the RFE, i thought those were given AFTER an approval.

Nope, an A number is issued as soon as they get your case. It's your ID number, so say if you got denied and you later applied again they can look you up and see that previous denial with that number. I think that makes sense.....either way, the main point is that you get one as soon as you start a case