NVC Nepal Marriage Certificate Requirements

[Mel & Jaybee 1]

I've been on the Find Documents section of the NVC website attempting to understand what they've been telling me regarding our marriage certificate "not being what they wanted" and I'm absolutely lost. Our certificate was issued in Nepali by the CDO of my husband's local and permanent district where we were married. It was then translated into English and stamped by an official certified translator. What could we possibly be missing? The procedure to obtain the marriage certificate was already done (the affidavit of eligibility, etc.), they can't possibly want those documents? There is nothing that says they need them on the website! Only the marriage certificate and a translation if it was issued in Nepali. Has anyone else with a timeline in Nepal struggled with this same issue?

[Ryan H 3,819]

Moved from IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures to Asia: South regional forum; topic is Nepal specific.

[Gorkhali 214]

get the translation stamped from the same CDO office who issued your marriage certificate. This should help.

 

however our marriage certificate has nepali and english both and it was issued from CDO office itself.

 

[Mel & Jaybee 1]

On 7/29/2017 at 2:41 PM, Bunny&Ninja said:

get the translation stamped from the same CDO office who issued your marriage certificate. This should help.

 

however our marriage certificate has nepali and english both and it was issued from CDO office itself.

 

Thank you... I'm afraid that that's what we may have to do. I can't believe it's been taking them this long to inform us what's wrong with our marriage certificate and I've been working with an immigration specialist from our senator. My husband and I were told that the CDO Office that issued our marriage certificate does not issue english translations, so we had it translated by a translator whom stamped the translation with a seal of the notary public, meaning they were appointed by the state government. To believe they may ask us now after 12 weeks to retrieve one extra stamp which is an incredibly uncomfortable 12hr drive by bus to and back and then tell us to wait yet another 11 weeks is terrible. I hope beyond hope they just let us pass through...

But thank you for your advice. We may do that after all...

[ameise 25]

On 7/25/2017 at 9:37 AM, Mel & Jaybee said:

I've been on the Find Documents section of the NVC website attempting to understand what they've been telling me regarding our marriage certificate "not being what they wanted" and I'm absolutely lost. Our certificate was issued in Nepali by the CDO of my husband's local and permanent district where we were married. It was then translated into English and stamped by an official certified translator. What could we possibly be missing? The procedure to obtain the marriage certificate was already done (the affidavit of eligibility, etc.), they can't possibly want those documents? There is nothing that says they need them on the website! Only the marriage certificate and a translation if it was issued in Nepali. Has anyone else with a timeline in Nepal struggled with this same issue?

What we did was get a marriage registration certificate from the local ward office and that was it. We didn't have a marriage certificate from the CDO.

Edited September 3, 2017 by ameise

[Mel & Jaybee 1]

On 9/3/2017 at 6:48 AM, ameise said:

What we did was get a marriage registration certificate from the local ward office and that was it. We didn't have a marriage certificate from the CDO.

Thank you for the response! We found out that the district (CDO) my husband is specifically from (Tanahun) doesn't issue the correct documentation for a civil marriage certificate. We went the civil route 'cause we thought it would be more "legal" or "official"? Turns out, it's the opposite, haha, simply because of his district. We have an interview date now, but we'll have to go and register for a marriage registration certificate from the local registrar anyway since the marriage document we have doesn't actually recognize us as a legal married couple. Really wish we had done that in the first place -- but the attorney we had hired had assured us we wouldn't need to once we got a civil marriage certificate from the CDO. At least we have a chance to address the issue.