ah yes the other thing I should mention is that your all documents should have the Apostille.

Wasted mucho time (entire afternoon) doing that for the marriage certificate, the good conduct certf., my birth certif. my blood type certif. (just kidding on the last one) . In NYC, there is need to first get it noterized in one building (on centre street as I recall) then I had to go over to the New york state, department of state (off of John street) to get the apostille.

By the way..all this info I got from this forum and with advice from the posters here; so I'm just doing my best to show my gratitude by paying it forward.
..my disclaimer is this is my personal experience in the past months 3 months; i just moved here one month ago; so what may be my experience may not translate to others.


ciao.