Avoid yourself an RFE on I-765 or I-485

[Rippy88 11]

The Immigration Guide for Adjustment of Status for K1/K2 visa holders needs to be updated on this website! 

You NEED to include TWO copies of your marraige certificate when sending your I-485 and I-765 packet. 

We received an RFE because of this and need to wait another 3 months before getting work authorization approved. 

Your I-765 and I-485 will be split and sent to different processing centers.. so they need more than just one marriage certificate. 

I hope someone reading this can change "A" copy to "Two" copies of your marraige certificate on the immigration guide for AOS K1/k2. 

And I hope this prevents others from receiving an RFE like us! Good luck! 

[Dutchster 1,107]

Oh, well I haven't send a copy of my marriage certificate with my I-765 and I got approved.

[Hypnos 6,578]

A marriage certificate isn't a required document for an adjustment applicant filing their I-765 using the eligibility code C-9.

[Rippy88 11]

Your situation must have been different than mine. To be safe if you are reading this and haven't sent in yet, you should send two copies of your marriage certificate to be on the safe side. 

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12 minutes ago, Rippy88 said:

The Immigration Guide for Adjustment of Status for K1/K2 visa holders needs to be updated on this website! 

You NEED to include TWO copies of your marraige certificate when sending your I-485 and I-765 packet. 

We received an RFE because of this and need to wait another 3 months before getting work authorization approved. 

Your I-765 and I-485 will be split and sent to different processing centers.. so they need more than just one marriage certificate. 

I hope someone reading this can change "A" copy to "Two" copies of your marraige certificate on the immigration guide for AOS K1/k2. 

And I hope this prevents others from receiving an RFE like us! Good luck! 

That is maybe they lost that one copy..you don't need to send more than one copy..I read all the instructions carreffully and many times before I sent...

I didn't get a rfe till now..My noa1 is December 22

[Rippy88 11]

I'm not sure why you guys are trying to aruge with me. I was posting this to try and be helpful to others in the future.

We received an RFE requesting a copy of our marriage certificate, specifically for the I-765.

If we had sent two copies of our marriage certificate then theoretically we would not have received an RFE, and would have received work authorization quicker.

Therefore, I'll say it again. 

 

6 minutes ago, Rippy88 said:

If you are reading this and haven't sent in yet, you should send two copies of your marriage certificate to be on the safe side. 

 

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Do you have a copy of your application form? Check that you put in c9 into the box for answer 20? If yes, then you should not have been asked for another marriage cert. Sometimes they lose one and ask for another. Sometimes they make a mistake. But the current instructions from USCIS itself do not require more than one marriage cert for eligibility under C9 - however, there are other categories where one is required. 

[geowrian 22,338]

27 minutes ago, Rippy88 said:

I'm not sure why you guys are trying to aruge with me. I was posting this to try and be helpful to others in the future.

We received an RFE requesting a copy of our marriage certificate, specifically for the I-765.

If we had sent two copies of our marriage certificate then theoretically we would not have received an RFE, and would have received work authorization quicker.

Therefore, I'll say it again.

I'm not doubting you got an RFE for this reason. But either way, it is NOT a required document to be sent. Either you made a mistake on the form or they made a mistake in adjudicating it (which certainly happens), but that doesn't change the actual requirements.

[Rippy88 11]

Yes we filed under c9. I'm not sure how we get off onto required documents. But ok ! 

[geowrian 22,338]

2 minutes ago, Rippy88 said:

Yes we filed under c9. I'm not sure how we get off onto required documents. But ok ! 

1 hour ago, Rippy88 said:

The Immigration Guide for Adjustment of Status for K1/K2 visa holders needs to be updated on this website! 

You NEED to include TWO copies of your marraige certificate when sending your I-485 and I-765 packet.

^ This is how. Saying the guide should be updated, which lists the documents required to be sent, is how.

[Rippy88 11]

Gotcha. I guess I shouldn't have shared. This post can be deleted. 

[Scandi 4,178]

Just because someone gets an RFE for something that isn't a requirement doesn't mean that the guides should be changed. People get RFEs for all kinds of weird reasons, there are even British born people who get RFEs because they didn't send a translation of their birth certificate (that is already in English!), that's not something visajourney should change its guides for either.

 

Some are just unlucky to get RFEs despite doing everything according to the guides on here, it's not the guides that are incorrect - it's USCIS losing things, misunderstanding things or simply not knowing what they're doing.

 

So don't blame the guides.

 

Other than that I actually agree with you, I too rather send a photocopy of the marriage certificate with each application (i-485, i-765, i-131) to be on the safe side. I did it because I had a name change so I wanted to be extra sure my EAD/AP would come in my married name, I sent extra copies of the marriage certificate for that reason. It hardly costs anything anyway, it's just two extra pieces of paper.

 

But it's NOT a requirement and most people are successfully approved without it.