Marriage Document

[Larry]

I married my wife in China May 5 2011, Applied for her visa 130 cr1 U S immigration got july 26 2011 .

Feb. 9 2011 I get a letter I-797E

this is what they want. Marriage Certificate:= Submit a legible copy of the marriage cerificate for Larry Uzzell and Huazhen Li. The certificate must indicate that after the marriage ceremony, it was registered or recorded by the county,state, or province.

I sent them are Chinese marriage certificat And I translated into english What do they Want?

Larry

[Randy W]

Chinese Notarial Documents - see DOS China Reciprocity Schedule

 

NOTE: If the link is broken, try

http://travel.state..../fees_3272.html

or go to

http://travel.state.gov/

and search for "Reciprocity by Country" (they seem to change this periodically)

 

Most of the documents needed

can

be obtained from one of China's Notarial Offices (Gong Zheng Chu). All Chinese documentation to be used abroad is processed through the notary offices and issued in the form of notarial certificates. Notarial offices are located in all major Chinese cities and in rural county seats

 

The documents required are the GongZhengShu 公证书

 

Sample application for documents (your province or

hukou

may vary):

 

http://www.bnpo.gov....72115331419.doc

 

http://www.bnpo.gov....ide/detail1.asp

A discussion of the huji (or

hukou

户口) system

can

be found at

Hukou

System

. Chinese residents should go to their

hukou

for all notarial documents (birth, divorce, and/or single certificate, and police records). For the police record, one obtained at the

hukou

will cover all of China.

 

A notarial document will be in the standard white notarial booklet, have an official red seal, an English translation, and an attestation to the true translation.

 

Note that police records and single certificates are valid for one year from the date of notarization. Others are valid indefinitely.

 

Marriage certification for

I-130

or

K-3

must be in the same format.

 

If ANY document is unobtainable, you should submit a statement of WHY it is unobtainable, and what effort you made to obtain it.

Edited February 11, 2012 by Randy W (see edit history)