Civil documents required between NVC and Mexico consulate

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Hi all,

Earlier this morning my Mexican wife & I submitted her DS-260 online. We've already turned in the paper-based AOS and so it looks like our next step is to assemble our supporting civil documents for the DS-260 and send those on to the NVC.

If I read the documents that the DoS asks for here, this entire list reads as though the applicant (my wife) needs to provide these and not me as the petitioner (the U.S. spouse sponsor). However, on a whim I did a search and stumbled across the consulate for Ciudad Juarez in Mexico (which is where I believe my wife will have her interview since our case starts with CDJ). The consulate also asks for a list of very similar documents to bring for the interview itself, some of which appear to also apply to me. Because there are some differences in the way these two pages read, I'm not sure if the consulate interview documents are simply the consulate's specific requirements above and beyond those of the DoS's, or if meeting the DoS's requirements is good enough.

Therefore, I have 2 questions:

1. As the petitioner, do I need to send MY birth certificate and MY divorce decree from a prior marriage to the NVC? It appears that the Ciudad Juarez consulate wants petitioner versions of these for the interview, so I'm wondering if we should provide these to the NVC as well even though they aren't explicitly asked for.

2. If we send the NVC things like my wife's birth certificate, our marriage certificate, and our previously-submitted AOS, does she still need to bring additional originals of these to the interview as the consulate page indicates? Or can we trust that the NVC will transfer all of our original documents to the consulate for us?

Thanks.

[Darnell 8,478]

the list you found is for DCF CDJ.

That's not you or yer spouse.

errata:

1. foreign spouse civil docs submitted into NVC. NVC forwards them on with the casefile into CDJ.

2. USA spouse's divorce documents must be presented on interview day.

3. do EP at NVC? Have a casefile # starting with MEP? AHA ! That's electronic processing, and originals of all documents submitted via EP must be submitted on interview day.

Edited December 28, 2013 by Darnell