{"id":601,"date":"2012-08-23T18:14:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=601"},"modified":"2012-08-23T18:14:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T00:14:49","slug":"proving-the-validity-of-a-common-law-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=601","title":{"rendered":"Proving the Validity of a Common Law Marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>My L1A visa application was just approved and I need to go to the US Embassy in London to get the visa stamp.\u00a0 The issue for me is that my wife and I have a common law marriage so we don\u2019t have a marriage license or certificate.\u00a0 How do we show that we are married?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While immigration law does recognize common law marriages, I\u2019m not sure how you would document that you qualify.\u00a0 The easiest solution to your problem would be to go get a marriage certificate.\u00a0 Then you can produce that at the interview.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My L1A visa application was just approved and I need to go to the US Embassy in London to get the visa stamp.\u00a0 The issue for me is that my wife and I have a common law marriage so we don\u2019t have a marriage license or certificate.\u00a0 How do we show that we are married? &#8230; <a title=\"Proving the Validity of a Common Law Marriage\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/?p=601\" aria-label=\"Read more about Proving the Validity of a Common Law Marriage\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,69],"tags":[283,218],"class_list":["post-601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-common-law-marriage","category-l-1a-visa","tag-common-law-marriage","tag-l-1a-visa"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":602,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/601\/revisions\/602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.messersmithlaw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}