Can US marriage certificate be the original marriage certificate?

[Gozde 10]

Hi everyone. I am at the NVC stage and uploaded all the necessary documents. For the marriage certificate, we uploaded our American (from State of California) marriage certificate as we got married in the US a couple of years ago, and that is our original marriage certificate. I did not upload our "country-specific" marriage certificate for Turkey. We also have this document but I did not think it was necessary. Did anyone else use the same method? I got worried as I saw on NVC website that all civil documents must be issued by my country. Do I need to submit my country-specific marriage certificate in the "other" category, and would that put us back behind the line? 

[iwannaplay54 985]

Wondering what you are doing with (two) marriage certificates.

Edited February 11, 2022 by iwannaplay54

[Gozde 10]

It is the same marriage to the same person. After the marriage in the US, we also provided proof to the Turkish government, and received marriage certificate from my government as well.

[iwannaplay54 985]

27 minutes ago, Gozde said:

It is the same marriage to the same person. After the marriage in the US, we also provided proof to the Turkish government, and received marriage certificate from my government as well.

Use the marriage certificate from the court in the county/parish where the marriage originally took place and nothing else.

 

I wouldn’t put a marriage certificate from a place I did not get married anywhere near an immigration case file 😂

[Dashinka 24,509]

2 hours ago, Gozde said:

It is the same marriage to the same person. After the marriage in the US, we also provided proof to the Turkish government, and received marriage certificate from my government as well.

Yeah, the CA marriage certificate is the one you need.  The one from Turkey may be called a marriage certificate, but it sounds more like it is a registration of marriage document.

 

Good Luck!

[Gozde 10]

Thank you both for your answers. I also asked the attorney who also said the same thing.

[etrangais 947]

The original document is the US document as it was issued when you got married.

The Turkish document is only a recognition of that US marriage by the Turkish authorities