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Hi everyone,

I was wondering if you all can help me. my fiancé is currently in A school down in Pensacola, Fl. We plan to get married Aug 1, 2015. I have ben looking at stuff online and on this site and I am a little confused and was wondering if someone who personally went through this will be able to help.

1- how long will it take for use to possibly get housing once we are married? And do we need to be married before he is able to ask to be waitlisted for housing, or will they just take his word or the marriage license before the actually ceremony takes place?

2- if we are not married before he is stationed, will that mess things up in regards to the military moving my things? I see some places say that it will and others say no. also, will he still be able to get all his dependant such (increase pay, housing, moving expanses taken care off, adding me to DEERs) done if we are married after he is stationed?

3- if he sent overseas, will I not be able to go if we are not married until August? I know I can not go until we are married but I mean after we are, can I go or not? I saw something about something command( I cant remember) and it made it seem like I will not be able to go unless we are married before hand.

if it helps, he is an E3 right now and believe he will be an E4 when he graduates Aschool

thank you.

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1 - Yes, you need to be married before he can get on the wait list for housing. And yes, he needs to have a copy of the marriage certificate. Basically, you'll need to be on his Page 2 before you can get on the wait list for housing. In order to get on his Page 2, he'll need a certified copy of your marriage certificate. The command usually keeps this copy, so make sure you get more than one (ours was like 3 bucks a copy, so I got several). It doesn't take long to get on his page 2, it's just a matter of getting a copy of your marriage certificate and getting him to talk to the appropriate people in his command. How long it takes to get into housing, I can't answer as I don't know how long the wait lists are down in Pensacola for students.

2. If you are not married before he is given orders, yes, it will mess things up as far as moving your things to his duty station goes. You must be on his orders in order for the Navy to pay for your move from one location to the next. In order to be on his orders, you should be married as soon as possible before you expect his orders to be issued. Once his orders are made, they cannot be changed. So if you get married a week before he's handed his orders, you may not be on his orders and this will not be changed just because you got married. You need to be married, and you need to be on his Page 2, before the detailer writes his orders which could be weeks before they're handed to him. 

He will still be able to add you as his dependent if you are married after he gets orders, so he will still be able to get BAH and such (there's no increase in pay for getting married), however, if you aren't on his orders, reimbursement for your part of that move will not be made, only future moves.

3. If he receives orders overseas that you are not on (aka you weren't married before his orders were cut), then you will have to go through a separate process to get command sponsorship. Some overseas commands do not approve command sponsorship for spouses at all, some require them to be a certain rank before they can even submit the paperwork and even then it can be a long process. I'll let someone else fill you in on those details because I'm not 100% sure on them, but they do vary from command to command. They can still send him to an overseas command and not allow you to go even if you are married, but it's less likely if you are not. 

ok, thank you Emily for all your info. it was vey helpful :-)

Emily has it right, as usual!

I can answer more questions about being command sponsored overseas, but you might not have to worry about it at all.  I have a blogpost on it if you are curious later.

Just to note the problem we had was that my (then) fiancé had to have housing before we got married - i.e he could not be the barracks while married even though I was not physically there (though some commands will let you do Geobachelor - ours would not). Of course this was my husbands command so maybe others are more flexible. We also just did a household goods move two months ago and my husband reenlists tomorrow - he had just never moved anything when he got stationed initially. From what I understand this is uncommon, but we did it. Just fyi.

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