19stephanie
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My husband, who is French, and I (US citizen) got married in Paris in 2002 (a civil ceremony in the courthouse) and then moved to the US a year later. My husband received his "green card" and all other legal documents for residency in the US. We never sent our marriage license to a local courthouse in the United States because we assumed our marriage was legal in the US since the BCIS (INS) approved my husband's visa, etc. Now we are on the verge of a divorce and I want to know: Since we never announced our French marriage to the United States with the proper documentation, is our marriage even legal here in the states? Do we even have to go through a formal divorce in the US---in the courts' eyes, we may not even be legally married? Please keep in mind, though, he DID receive permission to move to the United States legally through the BCIS. Thanks for any advice.
