30 day requirement after marriage

[GORISIKH 0]

Hi All,

Is it true that when applying for a K-3 spouse visa, the husband and wife must have lived together for at least 30 days? Also, in India the requirement to get a registered marriage done, the husband and wife need to set an appointment before at least 30 days of the registered marriage. If the sponsoring spouse is a US citizen and cannot stay in India for more than 30 days then are there any other workarounds to get the registered marriage certificate? I read on New Delhi US embassy website that the American spouse can get a "No objection" letter for marriage certificate? Does anyone have more info about this?

Thanks!

Hi,

I just married my hubby in Delhi on christmas eve last year and sad to say...YES, IT IS TRUE! we tried every which way to get around the minimum 30 day requirement but they wouldnt hear of it! i was ill and had a doctors statement stating i needed to return asap to the USA, and still, they wouldnt budge! Finally, we went to the registars office the next working day after our religious marriage in the gurdwara and they told us that they didnt even have a date in 30 days for us but since we had a legal religious marriage and had documentation in the form of a letter from the granthi who married us, they would only make us wait until an officer could go to the gurdwara and question the granthi and other witnesses! MAN, OH MAN! so we ended up waiting until jan 9th for them to sign our marriage certificate/license!

[GORISIKH 0]

One of my friends is a US citizen and he got the traditional marriage and registered marriage done in India. After the marriage they lived together for only for 3 days and after that the spouse came back to US. When his wife went for visa interview the interviewer got suspicious about the marraige as they had not lived together for even a month. Thereafter the visa was denied.

Oh my God!!! This is scary. I am really getting worried now. I came back so quick because of my medical school. Does it help if I go and visit my husband before the I-129F gets approved. Even If I go i can't stay for more than 10 days. Or should I get some kind of documentation stating the reason why I could not stay with him for a longer time.

Thank you

If I were in your shoes and had a choice of going back even if for only a week, i would do it! It says alot to visit again after the marriage, I think. I would also obtain the documentation from your school. It cant hurt, right? Good luck.

[GORISIKH 0]

On the website http://newdelhi.usembassy.gov/acsmarr.html, it says that "The procedure for a foreigner (e.g., an American citizen) to get married in India depends on whether the parties wish to participate in a religious ceremony or a civil ceremony. If required, the Embassy can issue a “no objection” letter to any American citizen who wishes to obtain an Indian marriage certificate." Is the "no objection" letter supposed to be given to civil court authority in India so that they can issue a marriage certificate? I am a bit confused about that process really works. Any insight on this will be much appreciated

I hate to be the bearer of bad news but i went to the delhi embassy to get my "no objection certificate" and it only took about 5 minutes to get. the reason being is that this paper is a generic one that they just write your name in the blank and it says wording to the affect that they are an embassy and its not their job to know if you can or can not get married. they say as far as they are concerned, you can!!! i was laughing so hard at this all important paper that is required to marry in india! hahahaha Then, to make matters worse, when we went to the registars office (for the 4th time) we were told to go get an attested letter from me because I had been divorced, that I swore I was divorce (even though I had the original stamped divorce decree with me!) i arrived in the country in november and we were given Jan 9th as our registar day to obtain our certificate. Hope this helps somehow. Feel free to contact me if you need any further info.

[Yodrak 7]

no, it's not scary. What's scary is when we have real live examples of Chicken Little syndrome.

There's more to this story than we are being told in this 3rd-hand report.

Yodrak

One of my friends is a US citizen and he got the traditional marriage and registered marriage done in India. After the marriage they lived together for only for 3 days and after that the spouse came back to US. When his wife went for visa interview the interviewer got suspicious about the marraige as they had not lived together for even a month. Thereafter the visa was denied.

Oh my God!!! This is scary. I am really getting worried now. .....

[pushbrk 12,914]

Hi,

I just married my hubby in Delhi on christmas eve last year and sad to say...YES, IT IS TRUE! we tried every which way to get around the minimum 30 day requirement but they wouldnt hear of it! i was ill and had a doctors statement stating i needed to return asap to the USA, and still, they wouldnt budge! Finally, we went to the registars office the next working day after our religious marriage in the gurdwara and they told us that they didnt even have a date in 30 days for us but since we had a legal religious marriage and had documentation in the form of a letter from the granthi who married us, they would only make us wait until an officer could go to the gurdwara and question the granthi and other witnesses! MAN, OH MAN! so we ended up waiting until jan 9th for them to sign our marriage certificate/license!

Please elaborate. A 30 day requirement to do what? How did this impact the legality of your marriage? How did it impact any filing of a petition? Have a date for what, to do what? What would have been different in any of this, had the USC returned to the US before the marriage certificate was signed? Had you known before hand, could you have invited the registrar to the wedding to sign the papers?

As you can see, your post raises a lot of questions and doesn't clearly answer any.