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Hi.. dont know if this was already asked but... I was born in Costa Rica and have US citizenship from my mom.. I want to process form I-130 for my husband. The instructions say I should send a certificate of birth abroad, my question is, how do I know whether if I once had it? If I did I would have to ask for a replacement, if My mom never got that certficate its a different process to get it, so how can I find out? My mom doesn’t remember. 

 

Also, is this certificate 100% necessary or is my passport enough proof that I’m a US citizen when filing the I-130?

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I think whatever you supplied for your passport would be what you need, if that.  A passport should be enough, though I did overkill on ours!  If you have the same documents you got your passport with, that should work for this.  But again that’s only if you want to send it just in case.

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Send a copy of your passport.

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My husband and I got married in CR last year, on the marriage certificate, the lawyer made a mistake. She wrote that my dads nationality is costa rican, but he is now a canadian citizen (originally salvadorian but naturalized canadian citizen) will this affect my I-130 application? How should I fill in my fathers information on the form? Should I put hes costarican, salvadorian or canadian? 

 

I asked the lawyer if she could change it and she said it would take about 6 months. 

 

 

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***Moved from K3 Progress Reports to IR-1/CR-1 Process & Procedures.***

 

~~~Similar topics merged and topic title edited to reflect this action.  Going forward, please ask all questions you have about completing the I-130 in this thread instead of starting a new thread for every question you have about that form.~~~

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2 hours ago, Missy12 said:

My husband and I got married in CR last year, on the marriage certificate, the lawyer made a mistake. She wrote that my dads nationality is costa rican, but he is now a canadian citizen (originally salvadorian but naturalized canadian citizen) will this affect my I-130 application? How should I fill in my fathers information on the form? Should I put hes costarican, salvadorian or canadian? 

 

I asked the lawyer if she could change it and she said it would take about 6 months. 

 

 

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4 hours ago, Missy12 said:

Hi guys, I live in costa rica and got married here and havent been back to the US, does anyone know how I can get my US marriage certificate sent here?

If you got married in Costa Rica, you don't have a US Marriage Certificate.  Please clarify what it is you are asking about.

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You won't have a US marriage certificate.  The USA will accept your Costa Rica wedding/ marriage, but you do not get a cert from a country where the wedding did not take place.  You will use your Costa Rica marriage cert for the spousal visa paperwork.

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19 minutes ago, Missy12 said:

I’ll have to ask the lawyer that married us if she registered our marriage in the US I guess.. I got married with my US passport and information... so I assumed it would be registered ... maybe not... 

NO maybe.  It is NOT.  In the US, marriages are done and recorded on the State level.  You will NEVER have a US marriage certificate.  The marriage certificate you need, must be ordered from the jurisdiction where the marriage took place.  You will then need a certified translation of it.

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Crazy....damn it.. I think I got screwed by this lawyer not telling me this.....now I’m not legally married anywhere then, but my husband is.... at the civil registry in CR he shows up as married, so, he’s married to a single woman now....??!!!  Don’t really get it.....thanks for the help....! 

 
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