Marriage Certificate discrepancy

[ayah_ 0]

Hello. We got married last March and will be applying for petition of my partner. Our CEMAR from PSA is 2 pages. Even though we only passed the marriage certificate from LCR. The solemnizing officer endorsed us as being married under Article 24. But we have legal marriage license in the 1st page. The 2nd page only has the signature of the officer and not the local registry. We were advised to just pass the 1st page. We would have to sue and go to court to ammend this which could take years and we’d like to avoid that. We have certified true copies of everything. Do they scrutinize 2-page marriage certificates that badly? 

[RO_AH 1,659]

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[RO_AH 1,659]

1 hour ago, ayah_ said:

Hello. We got married last March and will be applying for petition of my partner. Our CEMAR from PSA is 2 pages. Even though we only passed the marriage certificate from LCR. The solemnizing officer endorsed us as being married under Article 24. But we have legal marriage license in the 1st page. The 2nd page only has the signature of the officer and not the local registry. We were advised to just pass the 1st page. We would have to sue and go to court to ammend this which could take years and we’d like to avoid that. We have certified true copies of everything. Do they scrutinize 2-page marriage certificates that badly? 

Are you talking about your CEMAR or PSA Marriage Certificate? I am confused as to what you are asking?

[ayah_ 0]

8 minutes ago, RO_AH said:

Are you talking about your CEMAR or PSA Marriage Certificate? I am confused as to what you are asking?

My bad. PSA Marriage Certificate. 

[RO_AH 1,659]

So what is the discrepancy? Everything sounds normal to me. LCR sends the certificate to PSA. PSA certifies the original and enters it into the national record archives.

[ayah_ 0]

10 minutes ago, RO_AH said:

Are you talking about your CEMAR or PSA Marriage Certificate? I am confused as to what you are asking?

There’s conflicting information on our PSA Marriage Certificate. 1st page information is okay. But they gave us a 2nd page Affidavit of Solemnizing Officer claiming we were married under Article 34 

[RO_AH 1,659]

Just now, ayah_ said:

There’s conflicting information on our PSA Marriage Certificate. 1st page information is okay. But they gave us a 2nd page Affidavit of Solemnizing Officer claiming we were married under Article 34 

So what is article 34, or 24 that you mentioned earlier?

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2 minutes ago, RO_AH said:

So what is article 34, or 24 that you mentioned earlier?

I just looked it up. I think you are worrying about nothing. All that matters is that you have a valid PSA marriage certificate which you do. What makes you believe this will be an issue?

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Just now, RO_AH said:

So what is article 34, or 24 that you mentioned earlier?

Article 34 is for those who do not need a marriage license because the have been living together for 5yrs. I think it’s called common law marriage in the states. We are not under that law as I am residing in US and him in Manila. Our 1st page MC has our marriage license no. And that page is the one that has the signature of LCR authority. Meanwhile 2nd page is only solemnizing officer’s affidavit of us being wed under article 34 along with his signature, no LCR authority signature. 

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1 minute ago, ayah_ said:

Article 34 is for those who do not need a marriage license because the have been living together for 5yrs. I think it’s called common law marriage in the states. We are not under that law as I am residing in US and him in Manila. Our 1st page MC has our marriage license no. And that page is the one that has the signature of LCR authority. Meanwhile 2nd page is only solemnizing officer’s affidavit of us being wed under article 34 along with his signature, no LCR authority signature. 

A marriage license and a marriage certificate are 2 different things. All that matters for immigration purposes is that you have a valid PSA marriage certificate. No one cares if you had a license or not.

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Just now, RO_AH said:

A marriage license and a marriage certificate are 2 different things. All that matters for immigration purposes is that you have a valid PSA marriage certificate. No one cares if you had a license or not.

Maybe I am worrying too much. That is what they are saying as well that our PSA marriage certificate is valid and shouldn’t be a problem. Thank you for the insight! 

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2 hours ago, ayah_ said:

That is what they are saying

Be careful of the they said culture in the Philippines. Always make sure who "they" are. I have always thought about writing a book titled "They Said". My wife just told me another good one the other day. They said if you take Midol that later you will not be able to get pregnant. There is a lot more where that came from.

[top_secret 2,387]

If you have a two page marriage certificate then the US needs both pages.  Number of pages in and of itself is meaningless and no big deal.   But the US absolutely requires "all".

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5 minutes ago, top_secret said:

If you have a two page marriage certificate then the US needs both pages.  Number of pages in and of itself is meaningless and no big deal.   But the US absolutely requires "all".

Even if they’re conflicting? All the signatures and authorities are in the 1st page. 

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1 hour ago, ayah_ said:

Even if they’re conflicting? All the signatures and authorities are in the 1st page. 

I don't know why you are so hung up on this. The immigration process is hard enough, you do not need to make it harder. You need to submit the PSA certificate. The PSA certificate is 2 pages. You will submit it as you received it and you will have no problems. Philippines is not great on accuracy. I would bet that 50% of birth certificates are wrong in some way or another, maybe more.