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[Lari 0]

Hello dear folks,

After you get married, do you need to go in the US embassy in your country to verify your marriage certificate (MC) and put a stamp on it before you send it with your I-130?

Does US embassies abroad do this stamping on your MC at all?

Will USCIS deny your application if the embassy stamp on your MC is not done?

Is this really true?

Has any one so far has done this? getting your MC stamped by US emabassy?

Please please help me know if this is a must and required thing?

Thanks much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[payxibka 10,047]

[chakaas 0]

i did not have to do that.

[YuAndDan 153]

Never heard of Marriage Cert needing to have anything done my US Consulate.

All USCIS needed is a photo copy of it, along with english translation, and the translation can be done by anyone fluent in both languages.

[LadyJane 1]

I've never seen anything like that in the USCIS I-130 instructions. In fact for the I-130, you can send a clear photocopy of the marriage certificate. But if you are in the CR1 process, the NVC will require an original or certified copy.

[Lari 0]

Thanks for the quick replies. I realy appreciate this. I need more and more responses from all of you out there that this thing is not needed at all.

They are making a misrable guy travel to another country to get that stamp on his MC since there is no consulate in his own country. I want to help him and get him out of this pain.

Please relpy if you read this.

Thanks!!!

[trailmix 77]

Thanks for the quick replies. I realy appreciate this. I need more and more responses from all of you out there that this thing is not needed at all.

They are making a misrable guy travel to another country to get that stamp on his MC since there is no consulate in his own country. I want to help him and get him out of this pain.

Please relpy if you read this.

Thanks!!!

Who are 'they'?

I've never heard of this.

[Lansbury 19]

We discovered after I arrived in the US on an IR-1 visa that the document we thought was our legal marriage certificate was in fact only a decorative one for use at the marriage ceremony in the US, and of no legal standing at all.

The US Embassy in London accepted that document and never even questioned it. As by the by did the US Passport service when my wife changed her name in her passport.

At no time did we have a certificate stamped at a US Embassy.

[Jigi 0]

Hi,

I notarised My marriage certificate in Indian Court and sent it... no problem at all yet.

Jigi

[RandyandRina 2]

Never done it either.

[radsr2002 0]

Hello dear folks,

After you get married, do you need to go in the US embassy in your country to verify your marriage certificate (MC) and put a stamp on it before you send it with your I-130?

Does US embassies abroad do this stamping on your MC at all?

Will USCIS deny your application if the embassy stamp on your MC is not done?

Is this really true?

Has any one so far has done this? getting your MC stamped by US emabassy?

Please please help me know if this is a must and required thing?

Thanks much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only special conditions would be if the country they were married in had a national registry for marriages.

Then you would need a government issued copy of the marriage certificate that was posted to the registry.

In no case is the us embassy involved.

Make sure it is a notarized copy.

Rick

[Lari 0]

Thanks so much for all your replies!!!!

By "they" I meant people with either no accurate information or wrong information. I knew it and I never did this myself when I brought my own husband from India just one year ago. I made sure that everything was as accurate and complete on our application as possible. With the help of GOD everything went very smooth and we never got any RFE or anything else. I gained all my information from various immigration website including this one. I was and still am most confident that I know A-Z of the whole process. Thanks to you all!

This issue just came recently with one of our freinds and no matter how much I was telling them, that this information is wrong, in return they accused me that, "You are WRONG!" , They probably thought I was misleading them or something..... they were so rude to me when I was trying to discuss my own case with them. I was just trying to help and save the person who was getting guidance from these people with no accurate information. He was asked to travel all the way to Pakistan from Afghanistan to get his MC stamped by the US embassy there.

So I wanted to further make sure and confirm this fact that US embassies don't stamp or verify your MC, on the contrary they demand you to provide them with a verified MC. You are to convince the embassy of your MC or marriage! Not that they embassy would do that for you.

Anyways, Thanks again much for your help as always!

God bless!!!!