Applying without marriage certificate

[davidb57]

Hello,

My wife and I recently got married and have to wait 4-6 weeks until the marriage certificate is mailed. Would it hurt to apply without it? and then send it when it gets here?

Thank you.

 

[CaroM8]

Where did you get married, if you don't mind me asking!?

 

[perry.w1224]

Technically you can submit it now since processing takes quite a while. Once they need the certificate they'll ask you for it. But beware there's a chance they can return your whole application because you're missing important documents and you don't want that. Processing times also depends whether you apply inland or outland and from what country.

So personally I'd just wait til you have all the necessary documents and can submit it all at once to avoid headaches and possible delay.

 

[lauralee15]

I know after we got married we were able to pay a "rush fee" and get our marriage certificate in a couple days... not sure if that is an option for you, but worth looking into.

 

[mcharade]

A lot of places give you a temporary "Record of Marriage" kind of thing, you could probably send that as a placeholder if you got one?

 

[danawhitaker]

Hello,

My wife and I recently got married and have to wait 4-6 weeks until the marriage certificate is mailed. Would it hurt to apply without it? and then send it when it gets here?

Thank you.

As frustrating as it is, I'd wait. My husband and I finally got ours from Ontario after 10 weeks and mailed our application yesterday. I'd read that people had their applications returned if sent without it and I decided that wasn't worth trying to send without, even though we had had everything else ready for almost two months.

 

[Canadianinbrazil]

I was in the same boat as you. I got married on July 2 and didn't pay a rush fee. What I did was fax them with information about my husband's PR app and proof that I needed it sooner than the 6 weeks. I submitted that info a couple weeks after I got married and received the marriage certificate the following week.

 

[danawhitaker]

I was in the same boat as you. I got married on July 2 and didn't pay a rush fee. What I did was fax them with information about my husband's PR app and proof that I needed it sooner than the 6 weeks. I submitted that info a couple weeks after I got married and received the marriage certificate the following week.

That's interesting. I wouldn't have thought that they would have seen that as an actual need to have it faster, so I dismissed the idea of doing that. Hopefully future applicants can benefit from that tip.