The personal evidence can is ordered the day I need one. That's how it works. Just as you say, they don't last long and is ordered if they are needed for anything. And if I need one in the future, they would ask me if anything happened in my personal situation and then I would say yes
and then they would ask for a copy of our marriage license...and I would send it and that would be it.
But I don't think I will need a personal evidence in near future. But if I did, it wouldn't be any problems. If I order one, they send it within a day. And its enough if I give them a call, and they would send the day after at the latest. (except if I this time would send my marriage cert first) But they would send the personal evidence the same day they get the copy. So its no waiting time to get one.
Dale and I have no future kids planned......we are waiting for my kids back home in Sweden to become parents, so we can become grand parents instead lol Dale and I are soon to be 50, so the time for kids were earlier in our life's
So as I see it, I won't need a personal evidence again, for years. Not until I became a Citizen or need a new passport....and that is yeeeeeeears down the line