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alwayswin

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Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?
I do have pictures of my marriage.
 
alwayswin said:
Hi all, I had my interview in april and oath is in 2 weeks from now. I went back home to India and got married in the meantime. I just saw my oath letter says that if a person gets married, s/he has to bring documented proof of the marriage but my mine was a hindu marriage and I applied for it to be registered in court back in India, but could not receive the certificate before I left. So now my question is that if I go into the oath ceremony with no documented proof of the marriage, will I still be able to take the oath or will it be postponed?
I do have pictures of my marriage.
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USCIS will certainly not accept photos from the wedding as a proof of marriage. However I would think that for USCIS until your marriage is registered by the state authorities in India, you are not legally married. So it'd probably be OK to answer "no" to the question about marriage on the oath appointment form. I'd suggest that you go to your scheduled oath ceremony. If you really want to be on the safe side, you can leave the answer regarding marriage on the oath appointment form blank for the time being, explain the sitiation to the IO at the oath ceremony during the check-in and see what they say.
 
You need to get a marriage cert from the Registrar of Marriage in your city -- he/she will require photos, parents or someone else as witness, etc.

A marriage cert is standard practice for any visa applicant.




baikal3 said:
USCIS will certainly not accept photos from the wedding as a proof of marriage. However I would think that for USCIS until your marriage is registered by the state authorities in India, you are not legally married. So it'd probably be OK to answer "no" to the question about marriage on the oath appointment form. I'd suggest that you go to your scheduled oath ceremony. If you really want to be on the safe side, you can leave the answer regarding marriage on the oath appointment form blank for the time being, explain the sitiation to the IO at the oath ceremony during the check-in and see what they say.
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Thanks for your responses. I applied for the registration of marriage and my parents received the certificate from the court in India. They have mailed it to me but it has not reached here yet. My oath is day after tomorrow. I saw on the oath letter, it says that if I fail to bring any information requested, my naturalization application may be denied.
I want to know in this case will they deny my application or let me take the oath or postpone the oath until i get the certificate?
Anyone?
 
It is a significant change so I guess they will postpone your oath until you get your certificate (make sure it's in English or provide English translation). But you'll never know until you actually go there.
 
Since your marriage does not affect your eligibility for citizenship, I don't see why they would deny you from taking the oath.
 
alwayswin said:
Thanks for your responses. I applied for the registration of marriage and my parents received the certificate from the court in India. They have mailed it to me but it has not reached here yet. My oath is day after tomorrow. I saw on the oath letter, it says that if I fail to bring any information requested, my naturalization application may be denied.
I want to know in this case will they deny my application or let me take the oath or postpone the oath until i get the certificate?
Anyone?
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I do not think that they can possibly deny your naturalization application because of this, since, as Bobsmyth noted, the fact of marriage does not affect your eligibility for naturalization. In the worst case they'll postpone your oath, but hopefully they'll be human and let you take the oath as scheduled. I suggest that you just explain to the IO at the oath exactly what happened and see what the IO says. If your parents have a xerox copy of your marriage certificate, maybe they can fax it to you (or maybe e-mail a scanned copy) and you could bring it to the oath.
 
Thanks for all your replies. Took the oath, no problems faced. Before the judge came, during the check-in process, I told the immigration officer that I was now married and she asked me if I had a copy of the marriage certificate. I said yes (my dad had sent me a scanned copy by email and I had the printout). Then she said that the naturalization certificate shows the marital status on it so the certificate we have with us right now will be given to you during the oath ceremony, but after this is over, you can come to the office with us and we will print out a new certificate for you with the correct marital status and put the copy of your marriage certificate in the file so that they know why we changed it. And she added, that you have to get it done today coz if you don't then your file will be closed and then to get it done later on, you will have to pay some fees.
So after the ceremony, I went to the office and they gave me the new naturalization certificate with the corrected marital status in 5 minutes.
Hope all this info helps other people in future.
My immigration journey ends here and my wife's will start soon :)
 
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