Quick question on RFE

[jaycalob 1]

6 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

 

That is vetted as part of the K-1 visa.  It would have been verified by the I-129F and at the interview.  That is why it should not be relevant when someone is adjusting status from a K1.

 

 

Typically the marriage certificate from your local jurisdiction in the US is all that is needed.  Did you include this evidence of you registering the marriage at the embassy in your AOS package?  That may be what is confusing USCIS.

Exactly, like I posted above, they asked for this RIGHT after the section that tells us to provide the marriage certificate. So maybe it’s just confusing wording? Maybe it means if we aren’t married, but since we are we can ignore it? Am I making sense lol. 
 

yes, we provided the certificate from our local jurisdiction at the very start. I am so confused and I am ready to send out the RFE other than this one thing. 

[SteveInBostonI130 3,459]

4 minutes ago, jaycalob said:

yes, we provided the certificate from our local jurisdiction at the very start. I am so confused and I am ready to send out the RFE other than this one thing. 

 

But did you also include information about you registering the marriage in Japan?

 

[jaycalob 1]

2 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

 

But did you also include information about you registering the marriage in Japan?

 

No, this was done after AOS was sent. We needed to update her passport to her new last name and needed to register the marriage in Japan to do so. All Japanese couples do this. And most people who adjusted from k1, in the groups I’ve asked, all have done this as well. 

[SteveInBostonI130 3,459]

Then I am totally confused by the requirement.  From your statement, it seems to be an optional thing - that if the applicant has never been married, then provide the evidence.  But your wife is married, so it does not apply.

[Rocio0010 5,579]

23 minutes ago, SteveInBostonI130 said:

That is vetted as part of the K-1 visa.  It would have been verified by the I-129F and at the interview.  That is why it should not be relevant when someone is adjusting status from a K1.

I know. I was just wanting to clarify what they are asking to OP

[partyintheUSA 86]

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Submit the marriage certificate for the marriage of xxxxxx. The marriage certificate must be issued by the government agency authorized to issue the document. For immigration purposes, the marriage must have been registered with the government agency authorized to register marriages from the location where the marriage took place. The marriage certificate must have the seal of the issuing office, the date of registration, and signature of the registrar.

 

If you have never been married, you must submit letter(s) from the government agency authorized to issue such letters certifying that there is “No Record” of marriage under your name.

 

Since you have been married, the instruction following the bolded does not apply to you.

[Cathi 5,755]

9 hours ago, jaycalob said:

She has never applied for a visa before. The wording is very strange. She would need to be present in Japan to usually obtain such documents and you can’t leave the US. So it seems like an impossible task. 

Are you sure about that, did you call to find out? In many countries documents can be obtained without the person there. My husband obtained police clearance certificates from three separate countries without physically being there and he obtained a copy of his university degree without being physically present.

[Mike E 11,739]

https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/us-visas/Visa-Reciprocity-and-Civil-Documents-by-Country/Japan.html
 

“The full version of the family register (Koseki Tohon / Zenbujiko Shomeisho) covers all household members, while the extract version (Koseki Shohon/Kojinjiko Shomeisho) covers events related only to one individual of the household. Please also note that once someone changes his/her domicile (honsekichi), as a head of family register, the past records will not be transferred to the new domicile municipal office. Therefore, the past records may not be shown on his/her family register obtained from the new domicile municipal office. In addition, past records may not be transferred when the municipal office changes its record system from the Koseki Tohon or Koseki Shohon (older format that is hand-written or typed vertically) to Zenbujiko Shomeisho or Ichibujiko Shomeisho (digitized format typed horizontally).”

 

So it would appear that to comply this one would need  the record from each domicile in Japan that the K-1 entrant lived in.