Divorce certificate stamped not signed UK

[AmandaandChayne 734]

Hi,

We will be filing in April and getting as much done pre then as possible. My divorce decree is stamped by the court but no judges signature. Will this be an issue and if so how can I get the judge to re-issue?

 

Amanda

[Wuozopo 4,293]

2 hours ago, AmandaandChayne said:

Hi,

We will be filing in April and getting as much done pre then as possible. My divorce decree is stamped by the court but no judges signature. Will this be an issue and if so how can I get the judge to re-issue?

 

Amanda

Use a highlighter on the photocopy and mark the words in the middle that say was made final on....something like that because I am not looking at mine now. Also find in tiny print at the bottom "decree absolute" and highlight that.  Then put a sticky note on the page that says, "Divorce decrees in England are not signed, but only stamped by the court. This is the legal Decree Absolute from England."

 

There's been a few cases where the adjudicator has not known this, so point it out. Many of us have submitted the same as yours with no issues. 

[StuBear65 68]

My decree absolute was stamped but not signed and I had no issues.

[mindthegap 2,599]

When I showed my divorce decree in my I-751 interview they were confused and didn't think it was real or final.

 

Thankfully I had the nisi and absolute with me, plus the original filing so had to give a crash course in the intricacies of UK divorce law.

 

 

I don't think mine was stamped in ink either - just basically a photocopy sent from the court. It could have been on the back of a cigarette packet to be honest with you, as long as it was legal and final.

Edited December 29, 2017 by mindthegap

[mlh 93]

We drew one of the reviewers that had no idea about the UK decrees.  We did not highlight or note this the first time and we got an RFE for not sending a final decree.  We called and spoke to several people, and even had it escalated to a tier 2 supervisor for review, only have to wait 45 days to be told that we still had to submit the correct papers.  We took the exact same decree copy and highlighted where it says final and included a short note that UK decrees are not signed, when we submitted the RFE , and finally got everything approved.

 

It cost us almost 2 months in the process simply because the reviewers don't know the rules for every country and chose not to even look up or listen to what we were telling them.  

[JFH 12,191]

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[DJ6372 111]

On ‎12‎/‎31‎/‎2017 at 9:13 AM, mlh said:

We drew one of the reviewers that had no idea about the UK decrees.  We did not highlight or note this the first time and we got an RFE for not sending a final decree.  We called and spoke to several people, and even had it escalated to a tier 2 supervisor for review, only have to wait 45 days to be told that we still had to submit the correct papers.  We took the exact same decree copy and highlighted where it says final and included a short note that UK decrees are not signed, when we submitted the RFE , and finally got everything approved.

 

It cost us almost 2 months in the process simply because the reviewers don't know the rules for every country and chose not to even look up or listen to what we were telling them.  

We had exactly the same problem, we were RFE'd for divorce paperwork, but initially thought they had lost it, so fedex'd a copy to them................and then got an RFE for exactly the same thing!!

 

Eventually my wife got through to a Supervisor and she went through our paperwork and explained the scrappy piece of paper was in fact the decree absolute! If you've seen the US version you will understand the confusion.

 

We lost 4-5 months because of the lack of knowledge on their part.

 

 

[Ms kj 6]

On 1/1/2018 at 4:29 PM, DJ6372 said:

We had exactly the same problem, we were RFE'd for divorce paperwork, but initially thought they had lost it, so fedex'd a copy to them................and then got an RFE for exactly the same thing!!

 

Eventually my wife got through to a Supervisor and she went through our paperwork and explained the scrappy piece of paper was in fact the decree absolute! If you've seen the US version you will understand the confusion.

 

We lost 4-5 months because of the lack of knowledge on their part.

 

 

Ooo

[Ms kj 6]

Please ma'am , we are having the same issues, we got a REF about my fiance divorce decree , that it need to be sign my judge. We quickly sent it to UK court and it being signed by a solicitor and it has the Apposille stamp on it... then we mailed it to the uscis on 3rd of May. But we didn't highlight anything.... do I need to call the uscis to explain to them and how can I talk to  the supervisor .... Please kindly assist me with this.... Thanks for your response