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Just wondering if anyone has had any luck recently obtaining a California Marriage  License? 

I will be arriving on a K1 in October, and noticed that the LA County Registrar is closed and has been since March. 

 

Also. Did you take your partners surname? I've heard it can be an annoyance with the green card process.

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5 hours ago, MissOphelia said:

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck recently obtaining a California Marriage  License? 

I will be arriving on a K1 in October, and noticed that the LA County Registrar is closed and has been since March. 

 

Also. Did you take your partners surname? I've heard it can be an annoyance with the green card process.

You don't need to marry in LA county,  you can marry anywhere in the US. 

 

Name change is not an annoyance if you simply understand the name change process in your state.

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12 hours ago, MissOphelia said:

Just wondering if anyone has had any luck recently obtaining a California Marriage  License? 

I will be arriving on a K1 in October, and noticed that the LA County Registrar is closed and has been since March. 

It looks like both LA County and Orange County (just south, and generally even normal times the recommended place for LA county residents coming on a K1 to get their marriage license from because LA county is typically kind of slow in producing copies of marriage certificates and Orange county has both the lowest fees and some fairly nice civil marriage venues) are allowing you to make an appointment to get a marriage license online. 

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18 hours ago, payxibka said:

You don't need to marry in LA county,  you can marry anywhere in the US. 

 

Name change is not an annoyance if you simply understand the name change process in your state.

Well I don't. Hence my asking. Ive had a few people  tell me it can be an annoyance...

 

Obviously it wouldn't be annoyance if I was well versed in the process, otherwise asking the question would be redundant...

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9 hours ago, MissOphelia said:

Well I don't. Hence my asking. Ive had a few people  tell me it can be an annoyance...

In CA, you just need to put what you want to be your new last name (and new middle name if you want to change that too, within the rules for what's allowed through marriage there) on your marriage license application. Doesn't cost anything extra, and there's nothing else to do (though you will need to get a social security card in your new name before you get a driver's license, and you'll need at least an EAD for that). 

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On 9/6/2020 at 4:47 AM, DaveAndAnastasia said:

It looks like both LA County and Orange County (just south, and generally even normal times the recommended place for LA county residents coming on a K1 to get their marriage license from because LA county is typically kind of slow in producing copies of marriage certificates and Orange county has both the lowest fees and some fairly nice civil marriage venues) are allowing you to make an appointment to get a marriage license online.

Thankyou for your helpful response. 

I was concerned about getting it done within the 90 days with everything going on more than anything else. X

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Hey mate i was in same stress as yours when I arrived here in US on my K1 visa in June which was the peak of the Corona and LA county was not issuing the licenses. and Orange county gave us the date very late close to my 90 days period.

 

I googled to get help and i found a marriage Chapel who are helping to get marriage licenses and same time getting married too, i contact them and we got our marriage license and got married same day the whole process took 30 min, no we have already filed the adjustment of status application. i would highly recommend you to contact them they will help you, you can find them on google by searching "Same Day Wedding Chapel" they would must help you out and for all process including license and wedding etc they take $350.

the original license takes 2 months to reach but they will gave you an official paper which is for your wedding registration that you can you fro the adjustment of status. 

 

any questions. HMU .... good luck mate. 

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