Please help. Missing marriage certificate.

[lisajenkins1981]

Hi everyone,

I have my date for my application for Italian citizenship. But there is one problem....My greatgrandparents never “legally” married. They were the parents of my grandmother born in Delaware. Since there is no marriage license is there anything I can do for my dual citizenship paperwork? Both my grand parents and great grandparents are deceased.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated.

-Lisa Jenkins

[jcat]

Hi,
you could shoot the consulate an email regarding your situation, not sure regarding them not being married. Do you have all of their birth and death certificates?

[mler]

That your gg grandparents were not married does not disqualify you if your other documents clearly show the citizenship line. That being said, the consulates do ask, and will look, for marriage certificates.

If your grandmother is still living, you can ask her to write a statement (notarized of course) indicating that her parents were not married in a legal setting but were common law spouses. Failing that, your mom or dad can write a similar statement regarding his/her grandparents.

Again, understand that you are qualified regardless of your ggparents' failure to marry, and be ready to point this out if they try to make it an issue.

[lisajenkins1981]

Thank you so much for your time, help, and information!

[belmoro19]

I had similar situation with my grandparents and Lia at the Philly consulate advised me to get a certified copy of a census record showing my grandparents living in the same household, which I did and she accepted it with no problems.

[lisajenkins1981]

That's a good idea. Where can you order a census from?

Thanks

[KarenChristino]

Here's the link to order Census records from theNnational Archives. You should order a certified copy. However you need to find it first on someplace like Ancestry.com. It will have all the information that you need to place the order -- Date, place, names and I think district numbers at the top.

https://eservices.archives.gov/orderonl ... chives.gov

[belmoro19]

This is what I used to get the certified copy 2 years ago. Hope the link works

http://www.census.gov/genealogy/www/bc-600.pdf

[lisajenkins1981]

Thanks to both of you.

[lisajenkins1981]

I've ordered my census paperwork. Just an FyI to anyone it takes 2-3 months to receive the paperwork