Help asking for more documents after I-485 interview

[tewarir]

My father had his green card interview in California. I had applied for him in the family category. At the interview the officer asked a lot of questions. He did not approve the green card saying some more documents are required.
1. since my father did not have a birth certificate (we had submitted 2 affidavits) he asked for a non-availability of birth certificate from the municipal authorities in India. He said dont get it from the Indian consulate.
2. same about marriage. He wanted a non-availability of marriage registration certificate also from the indian magistrate.
He said to mail to docuemnts within 87 days directly to him and not to a general INS address as the file will stay with him.

Has anyone encountered such a problem at the interview. Do you need a lawyer at this stage to send the documents. The problem is that the indian authorities (new delhi ) are not willing to give a marriage non-availability certificate stating that it is diffcult to search the records. What can be done if we cannot get such a ceritificate.

[curiousone]

You need to get some official doc from India lin lieu and send an explanantion with the docs...but whatever you do make sure you do it by the deadline or els eyour case will be denied. No, it snot unsual to sen dit to a p'cular officer...you're actually better off doing that. My advice would be to do it early so that if whateve ryou sne dis not acceptable, you'll have enough time to correct