Mekremariam

Thank you for the replay. Yes, that is right my information was not complete. The marriage was made in Ethiopia in the church as already mentioned, I am Swedish and my my wife is a US citizen. She is going to start the application for a spouse visa now and submit the registration of the marriage certificate when it is ready. I got this advice from one lawyer but I don't have full trust in this procedure. Does this work?

We had already married in the church and got a certificate from there. As we understood it is a must to register this certificate with a government institution that has the authority to do that. But we didn't do that due to some inconveniences and decided to do this later on but soon. Now we would like to start filling out the I-130 and start the application for a spouse visa to save time in the meantime while we are going to upload the registration certificate later on being the application is in process. Does this will affect our application process? Will it prolong the decision time? We would like to get your suggestion or feedback regarding this issue, thank you in advance for your good response.