To people in Georgia: marriage certificate/license question

[ttinatl]

I asked this question in another thread, in which the issue first came up, but it must've gotten buried there...

Somebody in that thread mentioned that they got an RFE for their marriage LICENSE, because the copy of their marriage certificate that they'd submitted didn't have enough info on it.

That made me think about our marriage certificate issued by the state of Georgia and the fact that we have already had problems with this certificate and a federal agency, because GA certificates have very limited info on them. When my wife was applying for her new social security card (with her new name), they refused to accept the certificate and told us that she'd have to have some other government-issued ID with her new name, first. We ended up getting her new driver's license and then went back to the social security place.

My question is (to the people in Georgia): what are your experiences with that? Was your marriage certificate enough for you AOS application, or did you have to supply the license, too? We don't even have our license anymore--the judge took it before the ceremony...

 

[ashleythekitty]

we got married in Georgia. We submitted a copy of our marriage certficate and we haven't received a RFE for that. Our RFE was for the birth certificate.

Yes, the marriage certificate does look "fake" and I always wonder if someone can just make one on their printer :-( So far, USCIS haven't had a problem with ours yet.

Good luck.

 

[ttinatl]

we got married in Georgia. We submitted a copy of our marriage certficate and we haven't received a RFE for that. Our RFE was for the birth certificate.

Yes, the marriage certificate does look "fake" and I always wonder if someone can just make one on their printer :-( So far, USCIS haven't had a problem with ours yet.

Good luck.

Thanks for your reply, ashleythekitty!

I hope that our application will be OK, as we submitted the "original" certified copy that we got from our courthouse (we bought a couple of additional copies, just in case). It has the original "3-dimensional" golden stamp on it, so I guess it looks real enough. I think that the problem that some agencies have with Georgia's (and probably some other states', too) certificates is the fact that they don't have any more detailed info on them, like birthdates, parents' names, etc. Well, I hope that combined with all the other documents we sent, it'll work for the USCIS.

Thanks again!