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Location: UK/Russia & USA

I discovered today that my divorce was not filled correctly due to a clerical error within the UK courts, so instead of being divorced months ago like I thought I was, I'm not? It has now been refilled and it will be at least a month before new paperwork is issued to me.

The issue is my new "wife"? and I got married a couple of weeks ago via Utahs online service (I'm from the UK, she's from Russia so this was the easiest for us), we don't know what to do here.
My understanding is that makes the second marriage now void.

Since we don't want to separate obviously, what can we do here?
Can we continue on as normal until my divorce paperwork is reissued and simply have another cermony or do we need to go through the potentially painstakingly long process of annulment to just marry again immediately after? Is there any way that we don't need to do anything at all and by some miracle?

Appreciate any advice, we are both already thinking the worst and are devestated that something we thought was behind us is now going to cause the most issues.

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