funnily enough that's actually how I was allowed to marry my Austrian wife. She was pregnant this summer and we tried to get married but because I had an ameri

funnily enough that's actually how I was allowed to marry my Austrian wife. She was pregnant this summer and we tried to get married but because I had an american birth certificate I wasn't allowed to, because the certificate didn't have an "apostille" which is a stamp that can only be issued by the state of birth (Austin,TX) but we live in Austria (Europe). I found a legal loop hole that stated if your birth certificate was lost in a war or would be substantially hard to get, you can get married without the certificate. Thanks to the shutdown and the whole COVID desaster in the USA I was able to make the legal case for it and I was allowed to marry her :)