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| Subject: | French residency through French child |
| Date: | Saturday, November 11, 2006 |
| Name: | venice_surfer |
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I'm a u.s. citizen who married a french citizen. The marriage took place in the u.s. and we have lived in the u.s. since. We had a child, now 5 years old, who has both american and french passports. We also got our Livret de Famille.
But we are now divorced and I am raising our child. Also, I have remarried a woman from Brazil. I believe that I am entitled to reside in france, as the parent of a french child. But my question is whether my new wife will share my entitlement to residency. Secondly, assuming that the 3 of us are able to receive french residency, would we be able to live and work ANYWHERE in the EU, as french citizens are allowed? thanks |
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| Name | cyndyann |
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Wow... you sure have a complicated question.
As an American woman, married to a French citizen, with two young children with French and American passports, that recently moved to France, I can see this is going to take you jumping through some hoops to get settled here. First of all, since your child is French with dual citizenship, YOU are entitled to come to France to raise her, BUT I doubt you are going to be able to come here unless you have a job established (not positive on that). Your Brazilian wife may also be allowed to come to France with the two of you as well. You are going to have to prove that she has been as instrumental in raising your child as you have been. For us, we had to submit anything we had proving the kids have been with me specifically. There wasn't a timeframe but we submitted everything we had, from immunization records for both (where I had to sign for them to administer each injection), any other health records with my name associated with theirs, insurance records and finally we had to prove that I was responsibile for the education of our children ... for this, we had the current director of the school write a letter attesting to the fact that the children are enrolled in school and that I am present in their lives. I don't know how long you have been married to your Brazilian wife, but that may be taken into consideration. Also how long YOU have had full custody of your child. You will have to prove that you have custody and if the mother has given up parental rights or has given permission for your child to come to live in France with you... About working ANYWHERE within the EU, you may be restricted to the Schengen countries only:(Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, France, Greece, Italy, Luxumberg, Netherlands, Portugal, Sweden). The BEST thing for you to do immediately, is get in touch with the French Consolate in whatever area you are living in the US right now. Get all your paperwork, birth certs, original marriage and divorce decrees, custody paperwork, livret de famille, proof of income and insurances, etc translated now so you will be ready with all the paperwork the French Immigration Office at the French Consulate will ask you for. Good luck to you - knowing what we had to do with my husband being a French citizen and having a very good job in France (working as an expat in England and then the US with the same French company), you have a lot of work ahead of you in order for this move to France to be successful. Here's a couple links: http://www.ambafrance-us.org/intheus/consulates.asp http://vosdroits.service-public.fr/particuliers/N8.xhtml (this is in French but you can translate whole pages of text at a translation website) http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr (keep in mind the translation is not exact) Again, Good Luck! Cindy |
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