SEND MARRIAGE CERT ? Y OR N

There probably isnt much need to send in the certificate unless they ask, as for London, they are one of the embassies that appear to rarely ask for an interview, not that it is a definate, but it is probably unlikely.

Here is the London office information:

Hi Sami, Im in the same situation in that we sent off our app. on march 25th 2010 & then got married on april 22th. Im going to send in my marriage cert as soon as iv been given a case no. but our app. is still in cic-m & you are further ahead of us.

When you got approval for the sponsorship did you not receive a case no?? If you did then if i were you i would sent it in now to London but only with the case no. clearly marked on it. Without that there's no point as it will get lost.

Only a "copy" of the marriage certificate is required unless they request a certified copy or presentation of the original (the latter is sometimes done in conjunction with an interview). For marriages in Canada (which is where, it is my impression, this marriage took place), it is unlikely that they would ask for a certified copy or the original unless there was an apparent problem or anomaly respecting the copy or the information itself.

I answered the OP's question elsewhere, but in effect at this stage it is probably best to send the copy of the marriage certificate after the AOR letter has been received, being sure to include full identifying information including client number and so on, to best assure that the copy gets directed to the correct file.

As a side note: I strongly recommend against doing what the OP did here. It may work out. In the long run it should work out. But therein is the rub, "in the long run," as in the probabilities are that failing to send in a copy of the marriage certificate in the first place will result in a longer delay than the waiting time to obtain the marriage certificate. How it goes in any individual case may vary, and again it may work out well for this individual . . . but even so, for now it appears that the odds of this causing more difficulties and delays weighs heavily in favor of not sending in an application until it is complete.

lg107 is not really in the same situation, since the OP here was in fact married at the time of submitting the application, but did not have a copy of the marriage certificate to submit.

I hope that lg107's app was based on common-law. If not, if it was based on a marriage in law, the odds are very very high it will be rejected and they will have to re-file. (Indeed, if it is not based on common-law the only chance of it not being rejected is if there is an oversight . . . recognizing that oversights are an integral part of any bureaucratic process, albeit they are usually such to be to people's detriment not advantage.)

The date the app is signed/submitted is the key date upon which a determination of requirements like being in a qualified relationship depend. If they were not in either a common-law marriage, nor yet in a legal marriage, as of the date they sent the application, there was no qualifying relationship for a sponsored PR app.