Marriage certificate - how to notarize (Middlesex: legal, renewal, notary)
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I am applying for renewal of my foreign passport where it is mandatory to submit my marriage certificate for endorsing spouse name on the passport. Now, ours was a traditional marriage where a priest issued marriage certificate and we do not have a court issued marriage certificate. I just found that the marriage certificate has to be a court issued certificate to be accepted for passport renewals. The service reps have suggested if I can get a US court magistrate notarized sworn affidavit based on our current priest-issued marriage certificate then I can submit it and that would work.
I have been calling the courts and talking to various departments but they keep telling me they don't provide the service. I am located in central NJ, Middlesex county.
What I think I need to provide is, a magistrate notarized sworn affidavit where my wife and I state (maybe, in the presence of 2 witnesses???) that we were married on xxx date at yyy place and a priest issued a marriage certificate... etc...
I can get the above from a public notary but I don't know how to get a magistrate to notarize a similar document. Can someone please suggest what can be done here and what would be the process to obtain it?
If you are talking about NJ, a court issued marriage certificate made out by the county clerk is the only recognized legal marriage certificate. If all you got was a paper from the church, I'm not sure that actually makes the marriage a matter of legal record...
At this point, I suggest taking whatever certificate you have and making an appointment with the county clerk of the place you were married (if that is in NJ).
Is your spouse here in the US? If not, you will still need a court issued marriage certificate from your original country so that your spouse maybe granted a VISA.
Or maybe the spouse (and you) was already in the US and you got married back in your country. In which case I would recommend to get married here in US, again. It is a simple and relatively cheap process, you can go to you town clerk to find the procedure in your town.
If you were not married in NJ, you will probability have to contact the state of marriage and find out their procedure.
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