Salut cédric. Je prends plaisir à te répondre . Un grand merci pour ces précieuses infos. J'avoue je ne connaissais pas la compagnie aérienne mais je regarderai ça avec impatience. Habituellement, je voyage avec Etihad ;)
On prévoit également son arrivée début mai voir si possible avant. Concernant le visa, elle a bien choisit ?
Projet : Installation familiale ou privée (adulte)
Motif : Conjoint de français
Dernière chose, a t-elle eu besoin d'une attestation de domicile prouvant que tu demeures en France ?
Ne tarde pas pour les traductions et le sticker. Time is running away from us !
Salut cédric. Je prends plaisir à te répondre . Un grand merci pour ces précieuses infos. J'avoue je ne connaissais pas la compagnie aérienne mais je regarderai ça avec impatience. Habituellement, je voyage avec Etihad ;)
On prévoit également son arrivée début mai voir si possible avant. Concernant le visa, elle a bien choisit ?
Projet : Installation familiale ou privée (adulte)
Motif : Conjoint de français
Dernière chose, a t-elle eu besoin d'une attestation de domicile prouvant que tu demeures en France ?
Ne tarde pas pour les traductions et le sticker. Time is running away from us !
Bonne soirée.
Salut, je viens de réserver avec Eva air, Paris-Manille round trip pour moi 562.47€ et Manille-Paris pour madame 459,80€, 1022.27€ total c'est vraiment cheap avec une top compagnie comme Eva air, bon j'ai un stop over de presque 10 heures à Taipei mais accès au Club lounge avec ma carte Silver Infinity mileagelands raison pour laquelle j'ai pris ce vol car j'économise presque 70€ sur le stop over de 3 heures.
Regarde leurs vols de prés ils sont vraiment top, prix souvent parmi les moins chers en économique, flotte de 777 assez récente, j'ai souvent appelé leurs hotline qui est très efficace, and last but not the least les hôtesses sont très jolies 😉
Pour les choix Installation familiale ou privée (adulte) et Conjoint de français c'est tout bon 👍
Elle n'a pas eu besoin d'attestation de domicile, seulement d'une preuve d'identité, elle a fourni une copie de ma carte d'identité et volet biométrique de mon passeport (un seul suffit je pense).
pour les certificats de naissance tu as payé combien pour le DFA red ribbon+traduction+légalisation par ambassade car de ce que j'ai pu voir ça coute un max !!!!
Salut Cédric. Pour te répondre, j'ai dépenser 330 PHP par copie ( birth & marriage certificate) . Pour le RED RIBBON ( Regular Processing (4 working days) 100 PHP par copie ou 200 PHP en rush ). Pour la traduction d'un acte de naissance ou mariage chez alliance tu peux estimer le coût à 1080 PHP ( For Ordinary Service, 7 working days or rush 1650 PHP). Quant à la légalisation, le prix est fixe ( 25 euros). En définitive, c'est bien la légalisation qui coûte un bras.
Merci beaucoup pour les infos sur la compagnie aérienne. C'est bien noté ! On se tient au courant. Je croise les doigts pour le visa de ta femme.
A plus
Ps: Petite question qui m'a intriguée... pourquoi un roundtrip ? alors que je pensais acheter un aller simple pour elle.
Wow, je comprends pas vraiment, ma femme a appelé le DFA, ils lui ont donné les prix ça fait du 3,460PHP pour un certificat de naissance red ribbon, j'ai comme l'impression qu'il y a embrouille !
Pour le round trip c'est uniquement pour moi bien-sur, pour ma femme un aller simple Manille Paris.
Salut Cédric . Le prix annoncé par le DFA est hallucinant . J'en ai parlé à ma femme , elle n'a toujours pas compris ...
Salut, ma femme me dit que sont certificat de naissance fait 2 pages, ta femme aussi ?
Celui de ma femme ne fait qu'une page mais... tu vas rire elle m'a expliquée qu'une fois elle avait demandé 2 copies de son acte de naissance et le système avait "bugé ou mal compris... et avait généré une page 1 et une page 2 mais en définitive il ne s'agissait que d'une même simple copie de son acte. J'espère que tu m'as saisi
Toujours pas de news mais je suis persuadé que ça ne devrait pas trainé. Certainement la semaine prochaine, du moins je l'espère . Pour moi, pas mal de choses s'enchaine puisque je dois déménager d'ici cet été alors tu vois... c'est pas monotone ;)
j'ai une question svp. Ma femme est allé au psa pour avoir le certificat de mariage pour faire la transcription à l'ambassade.
Mon problème est qu'il lui ont dit qu'il faut attendre 6 mois avant de pouvoir l'avoir. Cela me parait très long. Cela fait 2 mois que l'on est marié.
Avez vous attendu 6 mois avant d'avoir ce document ?
Bonsoir,
Je vais t'aiguiller car manifestement tu n'as pas saisi la suite . Voici ce que j'avais préparer en anglais lors de notre dernier périple aux Philippines.
*Advance Endorsement Process for NSO Marriage Certificate
Requirements:
Certified Copy of Marriage Contract from Local Civil Register (LCR)
Endorsement Letter to PSA from LCR
OCRG copy of Marriage Contract
Courier Receipt
· Process:
· Note: Do this as soon as you get your copy of the Marriage Contract from LCR
·
1. Request at your respective Local Civil Registar (LCR) for an Advance/Early Endorsement to (PSA)
2. Present a copy of your Marriage Contract from Local Civil Registrar (LCR) to official. Local Civil Registrar (LCR) will prepare the Endorsement Letter and Office of the Civil Registry Group (OCRG) copy of Marriage Contract. (In my case, I was redirected by the Local Civil Registrar (LCR) of Makati to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA)
· 3. Pay the corresponding fee. (Prices may vary. In my case I paid 120 Pesos, including the shipping fee)
· 4. Get the Endorsement Letter and Office of the Civil Registry Group (OCRG) copy, photocopy the documents and keep the photocopies.
· 5. Enclose the ORIGINAL Endorsement Letter and Office of the Civil Registry Group (OCRG) Copy of Marriage Certificate in a brown envelope. Address the envelope to the addressee indicated on the letter and send this to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Main Office using next-day delivery.
· 6. Keep the courier receipt. (In my case, I got the receipt 2 days after Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Outlet, NCR District 3, Makati mailed my documents because it was holiday the following day)
· 7. Following day, proceed to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) Office at Solicarel Building II, Ramon Magsaysay Blvd - Service Rd, Santa Mesa, Metro Manila. Below is the map for reference:
· 8. Upon entering Building II (two) , ask where to go for advance endorsements. It’s located at the 3rd floor.
· 9. Go to the helpdesk (left side) and present the Courier Receipt and photocopy of early/advance endorsement letter and Office of the Civil Registry Group (OCRG) copy of Marriage Contract.
· 10. Helpdesk will give you a form to fill out where you can request the number of copies (140 Pesos each regardless of the amount of page).
· 11. After filling out the form, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) representatives will double check your form, Courier Receipt and photocopy of early endorsement letter and Office of the Civil Registry Group (OCRG) Copy of Marriage Certificate.
· 12. Proceed to Cashier Window (5 onward) to submit form and pay. The date and time of release and pick-up will be stamped at the back of the receipt. It’s usually 2-3 weeks from the date you sent the documents to Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
Ceci est valable et peut-être variable selon les mairies car par exemple à Davao , la mairie à fait la démarche vers le PSA pour obtenir le fameux acte de mariage authentifié par eux. Ma femme l'a reçu environ un mois plus tard. C'est le délai estimé en général. Donc, go to the city Hall ! ;)
Pour infos, je viens d'apprendre après 4 mois et demi d'attente que notre livret de famille est prêt. Bonne soirée
Merci beaucoup mais c'est étrange parce que la personne à la mairie de Cebu nous avait dit qu'il fallait attendre et aller au psa qu'il ne faisait rien d'ou le fait que je me sens un peu perdu.
Bonjour
Je vais me marier avec un philippin. Je viens d'avoir la réponse que le ccam était disponible. Donc je dois aller prochainement aux Philippines pour le mariage civil. Par contre je voulais plus de justes renseignements car jai des renseignements qui se contredisent et je suis limitée par le temps. Quels sont les documents à fournir au barangay pour le mariage civil ? Comment fait on le cenomar car ça n'existe pas en France. Je dois faire traduire mes documents est ce qu'un traducteur assermenté suffit ? Et pour la publication des bans à l'ambassade comment ca se passe ? C'est le barangay qui envoie la date ou c'est nous qui devons leur envoyer des papiers ?
Ce n'est qu'un petit panel de questions. J'en ai plein d'autres car c'est tellement complexe....
Merci d'avance pour les réponses.
Hi everyone, could someone help me out? I can’t find a solution because I need to get married in France with my partner, who is Cambodian. Her birth village refuses to provide a certificate of custom—they just won’t do it. I contacted the Cambodian embassy in France, and they told me that her village’s town hall should just give her a document stating they can’t issue it, signed and stamped. So, my partner went back and asked again in writing, but they still refused. At this point, I don’t know what to do, especially since my partner has to come to France in September to get married at the town hall, and they’re asking for the same thing. Can anyone help?
Best regards.
My husband and I have just gone through this stage of a Franco-Togolese marriage—he’s Togolese, and I’m French.
Given how complicated things can get with the administration, I thought I’d leave this post here. If you’d like advice or want to learn from our experience, don’t hesitate to ask...
Hi, it's Joyce—I’ve got a little issue. I’d like to know if you need a passport to start the CCAM process at the French Embassy in Yaoundé, or if it’s better to do it when registering the birth. Thanks!
Hello,
my Indian fiancé and I are getting married in France in a few weeks. Like many couples before us, we had extreme difficulties finding out the steps to follow in India to obtain the necessary documents for our marriage. We received no useful information from the Indian Embassy in Paris. It took us hours of research on traveler forums to gather scattered information and piece together the puzzle. I decided to summarize here the steps that allowed my fiancé to obtain the required papers, so other couples can struggle a little less than we did in the future.
I hope this post helps!
Context reminder: the list of documents required for a non-EU national to marry in France (see also www.service-public.fr):
Certificate of Custom: This is an explanation in French of the rules governing marriage eligibility in your country of origin. I read that some countries include proof that the applicant is indeed eligible. This is not the case for India.
Single-status certificate/marital capacity certificate. This is simply proof that you are eligible to marry under the laws of your country of origin.
Birth certificate.
All these documents must be less than 6 months old at the date of the banns publication.
The birth certificate and the single-status certificate must be apostilled. This procedure is linked to the international Hague Convention, of which both France and India are members. The apostille is a kind of stamp affixed to an official document by the authorities of the country where it was issued, giving it legal value in a third country.
How we obtained these documents:
The certificate of custom is very easy to obtain if you already live in France. You just need to go to the Indian Embassy in Paris with the required documents and pay the fees. We received it by mail the next day. The instructions on the Indian Embassy in Paris website are very clear (spring 2019). See also the VFS Global website (the company to which the embassy outsources consular activities).
Obtaining the single-status certificate was much more complicated. In France, a birth certificate is enough to prove whether you are married or not, as annotations are added for every major life event. In contrast, the Indian administration, although it can prove that someone is already married, is unable to prove that someone is still single. The only way to resolve this is to produce an affidavit. It took several trials and errors before we succeeded, as the administrators we dealt with generally did not know the procedure. Here’s what finally worked:
Prepare the affidavit on 100-rupee bond paper (first party: signatory; second party: Sub-Divisional Magistrate) at the Sub-Divisional Magistrate’s office in your place of birth. See Model No. 1 below. It must be signed by you and the Sub-Divisional Magistrate. For my fiancé, the latter only agreed to sign after presenting a certificate from the Tahsildar of his birth Taluk stating that he knew my fiancé was still single. If you don’t know the Tahsildar well, it might be useful to first request such a certificate from the "village accountant" before approaching the Tahsildar. We don’t know if the process would be the same in other districts than my fiancé’s.
Attestation at the Regional Commissioner’s (RC) office. The Ministry of External Affairs will only apostille documents that have been attested this way. In our case, we found clear information about the procedure on the Regional Commissioner’s website (required documents, cost, bond paper value). The RC asked us to justify why my fiancé needed a single-status certificate. Such certificates are usually requested by people wishing to join the army, in which case the RC receives a request letter. I asked the mayor of my village to sign such a letter (see Model No. 2, which I wrote myself). I come from a very small town, which was lucky here, as the mayor knows both of us personally and immediately agreed to do it. I have no idea if it would be as easy in a larger town. Once the document was submitted to the RC, it was sent back to the administrator who issued it for authentication. This back-and-forth should not take more than 25 days, but it may be useful to follow the progress of the procedure by calling or visiting the offices of both administrations regularly.
Send the attested documents to the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) for apostille. In 2019, the Indian MEA only accepts apostille requests through private operators, whose list is available on the MEA website.
The birth certificate, once obtained from the municipality of your place of birth, follows the same procedure as the single-status certificate: attestation by the Regional Commissioner, then apostille at the Ministry of External Affairs.
Note: The Indian Embassy in Paris offers to issue a birth certificate. We recommend NOT GOING THROUGH THEM. The procedure is expensive, and they simply copy the information available on your passport. We seriously doubt the validity of such a document for marriage.
A few tips:
Obtaining these documents in India will require a lot of time, patience, and creativity! For us, more than 4 months passed between the moment my fiancé signed his single-status certificate and the day we had it apostilled in hand. In the meantime, there were dozens of phone calls and visits to various local administrations, a lot of brainstorming, and money wasted on canceled flights due to the monsoon.
If you have contacts in the local administration, don’t hesitate to use them. Also, if possible, closely monitor the progress of the procedures by calling or visiting the offices regularly, as mistakes are very common.
I recommend only requesting the certificate of custom once you’re close to having the other documents in hand, as it’s expensive, its issuance is very quick (at least if you both live in France; otherwise, I don’t know), and it’s only valid for 6 months.
All the steps for the birth certificate and the single-status certificate must be done in person, which can be complicated if you already live outside India. Some companies offer to handle it for you if you’re willing to pay. My fiancé bypassed the problem by designating his brother as an "Authorised representative" (a step taken at the notary of his birth Taluk). Once the single-status certificate was established in person, my fiancé’s brother was able to take over and complete the rest of the steps on his behalf. Finally, we asked the service provider handling the apostille to send the documents to our address in France via DHL (we don’t trust the postal service, as we’ve had mail stuck at customs for several weeks before).
My fiancé first tried to establish his single-status certificate at the notary of his birth Taluk. It didn’t work because the Regional Commissioner categorically refused to attest it. Indeed, it is generally forbidden to make any modifications to a document signed by a notary.
Once the birth certificate and the single-status certificate arrive in France, you must have them translated by a sworn translator registered with the Court of Appeal in your area. You can find the list on your Court of Appeal’s website. There are no sworn translators for all Indian languages! So, check beforehand if one exists for the language in which your certificates will be issued, or ensure they are issued in English.
Model No. 1 - Single-status certificate, affidavit
I, (name of applicant), son of (name of father) and (name of mother), with permanent address (address in India), solemnly affirm and declare as follows:
1. That I am a citizen of India
2. That I was born in (place of birth) on the (date of birth)
3. That I am holding a valid Indian passport bearing the number (passport number) issued at (place of issue) and valid from (date of issue) to (date of expiry).
4. That I am unmarried (single) and have no living spouse at present either in India or abroad
5. That I am eligible to marry an Indian or a person of any other nationality according to law.
6. That I am of sound health and in mentally fit condition
7. I further state that whatever stated therein is correct to the best of my knowledge.
I am aware that suppression of facts or furnishing false/misleading information is punishable under Indian law, under section 193(2), 199, 200 of the Indian Penal Code.
Solemnly declared at (place of signature) on (date of signature).
(your signature) (the subdivisional magistrate’s signature)
Model No. 2 – Request letter from the French mayor to the Indian Regional Commissioner
Dear Sir/Madam,
(English version below)
I, the undersigned (Mayor’s name), Mayor of the Commune of xxx, department of xxx, France, certify as follows.
Firstly, that
Mr./Ms. (Name of the Indian future spouse), citizen of India, passport No. xxx, issued in xxx on xxx, valid until xxx, residing at (address), INDIA,
and
Ms./Mr. (Name of the French future spouse), citizen of France, passport No. xxx, residing at (address), FRANCE,
have requested that I solemnize their marriage in my Commune under French law.
Secondly,
that French law requires me to request from Mr./Ms. (Name of the Indian future spouse) a certificate attesting to their single status.
Issued for all legal purposes.
(Place, date, stamp, and signature of the mayor)
Note:
Prepared on the town hall’s letterhead, directly in both French AND English to avoid needing a translator.
Hi there, please could you tell me how to arrange a marriage interview at the embassy? My fiancé has already been interviewed. Thanks to anyone who can help me out!
hi everyone,
I’m new to this site. Here’s my issue: I just got married in Cameroon to my wife, and I’m waiting for our family record book. After that, I’m trying to figure out what I need to do to apply for her visa. But I’d like her to apply for visas for her children at the same time so they can come with her—is that possible?! Do we need to get passports for her children, or is just the visa application enough? They’re 8 and 15 years old. Thanks!
Otherwise, I’d have to apply for family reunification, but she’d have to stay in France for 18 months before she can apply for her children’s visas—that’s way too long!!!
If anyone can give me some advice or help with this complicated situation, I’d really appreciate it.
Thanks so much for your help.
Best regards,
Hi, the situation is complicated...
My son would like to marry his girlfriend (married to a Filipino in the Philippines but separated for 14 years), who is from the Philippines... but... what complicates things is that she lives in Switzerland illegally—her visa expired after a divorce from a Swiss national, and she received a deportation order in 2022 but never left.
Just to clarify, she’s been working in Switzerland for 10 years and pays Swiss taxes...
Recently, she reapplied for a work visa to request residency rights so she could marry my son, but they refused, and she’s already received an order to leave the country... What can we do? We don’t know who to turn to
I was interviewed at the town hall of my place of residence on March 7, 2025. My fiancée still hasn’t been interviewed by the consulate. The question is whether I need to schedule an appointment for her interview or wait for the consulate to call. Thanks for your reply
Hi everyone, I need some help, please. My partner wants to send our CCAM file to the embassy in Yaoundé from France. We’re wondering if, with the pandemic, the file will even arrive and how long it’ll take. Would it be better to send it directly to the address in Cameroon? We’d planned to drop it off in March but couldn’t, and my interview is next month (even though I know it’ll probably be postponed). I’d really like the file to be in their hands before my interview date. Please help—what should I do?
Please, I need your expert advice.
I’m Cameroonian, married to a Frenchman of Cameroonian origin.
My husband just received a message saying our marriage certificate has been properly transcribed and that copies will be sent to his local town hall via diplomatic pouch.
I’d like to know the details of what comes next so I can apply for my long-stay visa.
Also, I’m about to get a passport—can I use my ID that still has my maiden name, or do I have to get a new ID with my married name before applying for a passport?
Basically, will getting a passport with my maiden name now cause problems later in the process? I really don’t want to deal with the hassle of getting a new ID right now.
Our best friend, who is Moroccan/French, wants to marry an Algerian woman. They’ve already met, and the first steps have been taken.
It seems like getting married under these circumstances is really complicated—has anyone been in a similar situation and could share some advice on the administrative side or the steps to take?
