[naraval]

Hello All!

Does anyone know how to obtain french le livret de famille? I've also heard that it might be possible to obtain a French passport after being married for more than 3 years? Is that true even though we do not live in France?

Thanks a million!

[Lowtax4eva]

Livret de famille - Service-public.fr

I didn't see a pdf download but it explains the basics of it, call the closest consulate, they should be willing to mail you a copy. I'm sure you could apply for french passports if you married a french citizen, they should be able to mail you an application also

[naraval]

Thank you!

[MadamePapillon]

Hello All!

Does anyone know how to obtain french le livret de famille? I've also heard that it might be possible to obtain a French passport after being married for more than 3 years? Is that true even though we do not live in France?

Thanks a million!

Hi Naraval,
I'm a Jamaican married to a French man, we live here in the states and we just got notified that our Livret de Famile was ready. Here's what we had to do:
1st off, contact French Consulat responsible for your area.-- we got sent back and forth between consulat here and embassy in Jamaica -both were telling us something different, FINALLY, we got it right:
You will need to make an appointment for both you and your spouse, to carry in to them your birth certificates, and your marriage certificate, and the birth certificate of any children you both may have. -They 'interviewed' us the same day -separately, first my husband, and then me.
Because we had gotten married in Jamaica, we had to wait as everything was then sent TO Jamaica to the French Embassy there-- and they approved and returned out Livret Famille to our Consulate here in the States, who then notified us it was ready.
The entire process took, perhaps, 1 month. --shorter than trying to find out how to do it!

The woman at the consulate here, told me that I would have to become FLUENT in French, I've already learned a lot, in communicating with my in-laws, and after 3 years, I would then be able to apply for my French Citizenship.
It is the middle 'waiting' period that I am unsure of...

What I do not know, which is my question to anyone who is reading this and who is knowledgeable: After receiving our Livret de Famille, is there anything else, any other forms to file, or status' to apply for, you know, anything we need to do in the interim as those 3 years pass?

Hope I was more helpful than I found the lady at the consulat here... to get her to answer a question with specifics, can be rather difficult, thus my posing it to the vast help desk of cyber space...