{"id":57272,"date":"2018-12-03T00:29:40","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:29:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57272"},"modified":"2018-12-03T00:29:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T00:29:40","slug":"couple-prove-new-mexico-state-applying-marriage-license","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thefastfashion.com\/?p=57272","title":{"rendered":"Couple has to prove New Mexico is a state when applying for marriage license"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple from New Mexico was in Washington D.C., when they went to the marriage bureau to apply for a marriage license. Little did they know that while in the country\u2019s capital they would run into the issue of having to prove that their home state actually existed.<\/p>\n

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Gavin Clarkson, who recently ran for New Mexico Secretary of State, took to his Facebook to share the ordeal that he had just faced at the D.C. district court. Within the post he said that an agent told him, \u201cWe cannot accept international driver\u2019s licenses,\u201d after checking twice with the supervisor if New Mexico was a legitimate state.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new Mrs. Clarkson thinks the most hilarious part was when the clerk complemented me on my English,\u201d he wrote, adding that his wife, Marina, actually immigrated from Argentina in 1994 before gaining citizenship 14 years later. <\/p>\n

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The two of them were luckily able to handle the situation with a sense of humor and eventually worked it all out with the clerk after about 20 minutes.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll the couples behind us waiting in line were laughing,\u201d he told Las Cruces Sun News.<\/p>\n

Director of media and public relations for D.C. Courts, Leah H. Gurowitz, additionally provided an apology to the publication: \u201cWe understand that a clerk in our Marriage Bureau made a mistake regarding New Mexico\u2019s 106-year history as a state. We very much regret the error and the slight delay it caused a New Mexico resident in applying for a DC marriage license.\u201d<\/p>\n

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