Marriage Cert and Insurance

[Eljohno]

In reference to the marriage cert can someone please give me more advice as we have encountered a problem already.When my wife went to get a copy of the marriage cert she has seen that my address on it is not completely correct.They have not all of my post code down and instead of country antrim they have country antrim.Do you think this will be a problem? The second thing is that they have told rhea that when she was writing in her date of birth etc she went over the line and the bloke said they might not except it because of that.It seems very petty...My wife said they do not give you much room for your date of birth as it is a small area....Are they being awkward or maybe they are just doing their job, what do you guys think?

[ginapeterb]

Originally posted by Eljohno@Jan 4 2006, 01:36 PM
In reference to the marriage cert can someone please give me more advice as we have encountered a problem already.When my wife went to get a copy of the marriage cert she has seen that my address on it is not completely correct.They have not all of my post code down and instead of country antrim they have country antrim.Do you think this will be a problem? The second thing is that they have told rhea that when she was writing in her date of birth etc she went over the line and the bloke said they might not except it because of that.It seems very petty...My wife said they do not give you much room for your date of birth as it is a small area....Are they being awkward or maybe they are just doing their job, what do you guys think?

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John, this is Pete here, just make it clear to us what you are referring to ? is it the marriage contract you signed at the ceremony ?

If it is, this is not sufficient for the British Embassy, the marriage contract (and name it as so for our purposes) must be sent to the National Statistics office in QC, I understand you were married in Mindanao, is that correct.

If so, then it will take time for this to be sent, what you can ask the district registry to do is send it express, for a fee, suggest you do that now !!!

If there are incorrect details on this, I suggest you get them sorted now, i.e. incorrect date of birth etc, over the line can be a problem, Rhea will have to go back and sort this out, where are you now ? in NI, if so, there is not much you can do, they are not being awkward, however, the NSO will need to issue you with a certified marriage contract and that the marriage details are recorded in the NSO National Computer database.

The British Embassy will accept Secpa papers, that is a shorterned form of a marriage contract, for a visa situation, the NSO in your wifes city can issue that, she has to go to the local NSO, but the marriage will of course have to be registered properly, this can take from 2 to 8 weeks, there is no fixed period, some have got it quicker than others.

Hope this helps, you must get the paperwork right before British Embassy, if its not right, it will be red flagged and be sent back to your wife, getting it right now is a priority.

Doing it a later is a pain in the a.....

Let me know more about it...if you need any further help