How can we file for Adjustment of Status “immediately” if we have to wait several weeks or more to get a certified copy of the marriage certificate?
A…Make sure to ask the priest/rabbi/judge who marries you to let *you* take the marriage certificate to the recorder’s office yourself (You have to do this within 4 days of the marriage). Then, you can get certified copies right then and there while you wait. Otherwise the priest/rabbi/judge *mails* it to the recorder’s office, where it sits for weeks without being opened and recorded, which is why it can take up to two months to get a certified copy of the marriage certificate. (FAQ Note: This is a great idea, but not all folks will be able to do this. As one emailer wrote “A quick note on an experience we had here in Los Angeles. We were married at the Office of the Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk by a court commissioner. The ceremony was great, but afterwards I discovered that they are unable to issue the marriage certificate then and there. It takes at least a few weeks for the certificate to be generated, copies generated, and then sent out to those married.
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