@Jazzed,
@armoured, and
@Kaibigan, thanks again, folks!
To update regarding the
certified true copy issue: We managed to get a certified true copy of my spouse's birth certificate from the Consulate General of Mexico here in Vancouver. All we had to do was make an appointment 3 days ahead and pay $21 in cash for the service. My spouse went and picked it up with no issues.
Additional question:
- Now that we have a certified true copy in Spanish, we need to get it translated to English or French. It's noted that the translator will need to stamp both the translated copy,
and a certified copy. We've phoned around to all the translation services out there, and none is willing to have us mail in the physical certified true copy to be translated and stamped. They say to submit a scanned copy online. Whilst we can do this, we are inherently making a non-certified copy by scanning it. Will this copy need to be certified by a notary public again once the translation is done and the scanned copy is stamped by the translator to certify that it matches with our original certified true copy we got from the consulate?
This is such a headache (and I apologise for another dense forest of a paragraph above but I hope it makes sense); we just don't want to risk having the application sent back as incomplete due to some stupid bureaucratic red tapes.
Thank you in advance!
Original post from me below:
