My fiancé in May signed up to become a marine, he has a child in which along with all the paperwork had to write a waiver statement. Needless to say he has been waiting for almost 6 months and his recruiter has lost some of our paperwork we turned in like our sons birth certificate, and social security card. My fiancé calls every week just to see if there are any updates, while I know that this isn't probably something that happens to everyone (or maybe it does?) my question is should he contact someone else, try to enlist in a different branch, or just keep doing what he is doing? I mean he has a current job right now so it isn't for that reason necessarily that we are worried. We are just wondering if he is getting yanked around for no reason.
Thank you!!
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since he is a single parent he cannot enlist at all unless he proves with court documents he has zero legal or physical custody of the child.
so in other words, if the kid is also yours and you all live together, he cannot enlist until you are married. this is the same for all five branches.
Mrsjvb hit the nail on the head. The reason the waiver is not happening is because it WILL not happen, all branches.
With even partial custody he is classified as a single parent and, as such, he cannot enlist. He has to relinquish all claims and custody before he will be allowed to enlist.
Probably, getting a waiver of any kind is hard to do.
Here are the requirements for all branches.
http://usmilitary.about.com/od/joiningthemilitary/...
sINCE YOU are not married to him? is the baby yours?
if he requires a waiver for dependancy, he probably wont get it.
you might as well marry him asap