Guatemala RENAP Marriage Certificate Question

[Blake_Zoellner 0]

To give a little timeline, our scan date was August 4, 2016 and then August 27, 2016 we received a checklist regarding our marriage certificate. It said that the document was not accepted because it was not in the correct format or issued properly. They then told us to go to the reciprocity website to figure out what the document needed to look like. According to that website, it needs to be spanish type paper, has no seals, has green numbered lines, and is of the correct legal size. RENAP is the place here in Guatemala that is supposed to issue a marriage certificate to fit those requirements, but when my wife got the marriage certificate from RENAP it did not look anything like that. We submitted that one thinking it was okay, because we figured RENAP only issued one type of marriage certificate and since that was what we were given we didn't think much of what the reciprocity website said. My question here is: Do we need to specify what the marriage certificate needs to look like when we ask for one from RENAP or could it be possible that RENAP recently changed their format of the marriage certificate and NVC just hasn't updated their website to fit those changes. Also, back about 1 year ago when my wife and I were married in Guatemala, she received a marriage certificate that looked like it was put into the format that NVC was requesting from us but since it was over a year ago it wouldn't be valid so we just sent the new one that RENAP issued us.

Thank you in advance for any help you can give us!

[JFH 12,191]

*~*~*moved from "CR-1 spouse visa" to "Mexico, Latin and South America regional discussion" as question relates specifically to documents from Guatemala*~*~*

[apardillo 5]

We needed a more recent one also and my husband just went into Renap and paid the fees. They gave it to him and we sent it in.

No specific type of form was requested from us other than it be within 3 months.

Aidee