La vision qu'ont les membres de l'ambassade sur les philippins et les philippines est désastreuse. J'avais vraiment honte d'être francais!
Je ne vois pas trop le rapport. S' il fallait que tu aies honte d' être français à chaque fois que tu rencontres un crétin français à l' étranger, tu n' es pas sorti de l' auberge.
J'ai donc dit que je me marierai aux Phils et là, genre abattement, la nana était dégoutée!
Tiens, çà me rappelle l' employée du consulat de Saigon. J' y avais décelé un zeste de jalousie.
Ca, c'est vrai. C'est normal pour les enfants d'aider les parents ou s'aider entre freres/soeurs. Il est tres frequent que l'oncle paye les etudes du neveu sir les parents n'ont pas assez d'argent.
Et en tant qu'etranger, tu seras suppose etre riche donc tu devras aider financierement la famille.
Je te confirme qu'il est tres dur d'avoir un visa pour la France depuis les Philippines 😐 Il ne faut pas specialement en vouloir aux personnes de l'ambassade: ils ne font probablement qu'appliquer les ordres qui viennent "d'en haut".
C'est sur que c'est un peu bizarre qu'un francais puisse rester un an aux Philippines en renouvelant son visa touriste et qu'un Philippin ne puisse que tres difficilement avoir un visa touristique pour la France...
je suis dans la meme situation que toi, avec les memes sensations au sujet de notre chere ambassade de france a manille...
dommage pour eux, plus ils m emmerdent plus je suis motivé ... la seule chose qui me choque, c est la vision que ma future femme peut avoir de la france et de ces principes de fonctionnement en comparaison de l acceuil des philippins, ça craint vraimment (shame on us )
je serais a manille debut avril afin de deposer mon dossier et mettre tout cela en route. j espere que tout se passe bien pour toi, et te souhaite bon courage. si je peux te renseigner c est avec plaisir, mais peut etre en sais tu plus que moi !!!!
quoi qu il en soit, courage et peut etre a un de ces quatre dans un trocquet de manille pour une ptite mousse locale
Pour ma part, tout s'est très bien passé leur de mes visites à l'ambassade.
Lorsqu'il a fallu changer la date sur le "legal capacity", tout le monde a été sympas.
Aujourd'hui, nous attendons la délivrance du livret de famille pour enfin pouvoir faire les demandes de visa pour ma femme et ma fille. Apparemment, il y a eu beaucoup de mariages ces temps-ci...
Nous devions l'avoir en fin de semaine dernière, et il ne sera disponible qu'en fin de semaine prochaine 😕.
Ensuite, il nous faudra encore attendre 5 ou 6 semaines avant la délivrance du visa long séjour pour ma fille...
J'avais souscris une assurance pour la petite, obligatoire pour le visa, qui débutait début mars. Je vais devoir en reprendre une à cause du retard.
L'ambassade n'étant pas très clair quant à la date à laquelle celle-ci doit débuter, quelqu'un saurait-il si la date doit être celle de la date du départ des Philippines ou bien faut-il que l'assurance soit valide lors de la demande de visa?
J'avais souscris une assurance pour la petite, obligatoire pour le visa, qui débutait début mars. Je vais devoir en reprendre une à cause du retard.
L'ambassade n'étant pas très clair quant à la date à laquelle celle-ci doit débuter, quelqu'un saurait-il si la date doit être celle de la date du départ des Philippines ou bien faut-il que l'assurance soit valide lors de la demande de visa?
Bon courage à tous.
L'assurance doit commencer le jour de la validite du visa. Par ex. si tu prevoies que ta fille aille en France le 1er juin, tu demandes un visa commencant le 1er juin et tu souscris une assurance du 1er juin jusqu'a la date de sortie du France de ta fille.
Tu peux souscrire l'assurance la veille de la demande du visa.
Ca y est je me suis marié en février, et après bien des attentes ma femme m'annonce cette semaine que le livret de famille et le visa sont prêts. Super. elle devait arriver dimanche 27 mars, mais elle m'appelle la veille au moment où je la croyais dans l'avion pour m'annoncer que son visa n'est pas valide!!! La date d'émission du visa est au 25 mars, mais la date de validité part au 20 avril!!!! Je crois alluciner... Elle avait acheté la veille son billet chez Cathay airlines, où ils lui avaient demandé son visa pour voir quel tarif s'applique. Ils n'ont même pas été capable de s'aperçevoir que le visa n'étais pas encore valide.
Je découvre ainsi qu'un visa n'est pas forcément valide à partir de sa date d'émission. quelqu'un peut-il me confirmer cela ou bien s'agit-il d'une erreur de l'ambassade? Je suis désespéré. Je vais peut-être devoir attendre encore 1 mois et redébourser 800$ pour un nouveau billet.
Argggghhh
Je confirme: les visas ont une date de validite.
En general, l'ambassade demande la date de depart pour la France et fait coincider la date de validite du visa... Ya du avoir un probleme de communication dans le cas de ton epouse.
Bonjour a vous!!!!
Je suis bien sur le énieme a etre tomber amoureux d'une filppina. Je l'ai rencontré, il y a 3 ans. Nous avons tous les deux vecus ensemble plus d'un an et demi a shanghai (elle y travaille), et nous souhaiterions maintenant nous marié pour que nous puissions enfin nous retrouvé tous les 2 (j'ai quitté mon taff en chine, il y a deja un an). Cela peut faire sourire certain, mais nous prévoyons de nous marier en aout 2007 (je sais cela fait loin), mais j'y crois!! Elle m'apporte tellement, comme a vous tous😉. Alors je patiente qu'elle termine son contrat en chine pour enfin qu'elle devienne ma moitié.
Toute vos expériences me font réagir tres fortement, j'ai vraiement la haine de voir que l'on nous mettent tant de batons dans les roues!!! J'ai toujours payé mes impots (et quand je vois a quoi ils servent), suis un bon citoyen qui suit les regles....brefs dégouter.
Pour anecdote, j'ai voulu la faire venir en france pendants ses vacances. J'ai rempli TOUS les papiers, payés pour avoir un non de l'ambassade de france en me disant qu'ils n'avaient pas a se justifier.Et le top du top, lors de cette démarche, je devais lui trouvé une assurance, vous savez ce que m'a répondu la sécu???!!!! Et bien si elle est en situation irrégulière, il n'y a pas de problme, elle sera prix en charge par je ne sais plus quel organisme; par contre si elle est en situation régulière, ils étaient incapable de me diriger vers une assurance ou je pouvais l'inscrire. J'étais degouter. Brefs, je ne vais pas refaire le monde. Mais la france est quand meme bien "pourrit" lorsqu'elle s'en donne la peine.
Sinon, je vous ai tous bien lu attentivement et j'avoue que c'est un peu flou.
Il y aurait il quequ'un qui pourrait me donner les étapes une a une a suivre pour se marier aux philippines a l'abassade de france. Je veux préparer ca dans les regles, et le plus tot possible pour qu'elle puisse etre avec moi.
Par ou faut 'il commencer? En france? Aux pillipnies? la liste des papiers a fournir? enfin toutes les démarches....
Peut on payer les administrations pour que mon dossier passe plus vite (je sais que c'est un sport national la bas)? Peut on payer aussi les gens de l'ambassade de france?
Merci d'avance pour votre aide.
PS: es ce que cela vous dirait que nos petites femmes se rencontrent (je sais pour moi, il faudra patienter encore plus d'un ans)? Je suis sur que certaines seraient intéressées de retrouver d'autres compatriotes (je sais qu'a Hong Kong, elle se retrouvent souvent le dimanche ares midi dans les parcs pour faire une petite partie de causette et manger un porc adobo).
on m'a dit que tu pourrais m'aider. T'es t il possible de me fournir la liste des documents a founir pour me marier a l'ambassade de france aux phillipines et ceux pour un mariage civil dans une marie philippines?
J'ai déja posté sur ce forum, et raconté un peu mon histoire......
Je voudrai me marier avec une jolie laosienne... Je suppose que les formalités sont identiques. Hélas, faute de documents, je suis reparti seul en France...
Quel sont les documents nécessaires...
Je crois qu'il faut une carte d'identite
un extrait d'acte de naissance
une attestation de domicile
Quand aux frais percus par l'ambassade ? Est ce gratuit ?
bonjour j'aurait bessoin de cette lisste et de c'est document et ou les trouve pour un amis français qui voudrait se marie avec sa femme avec qui il vie 6 mois de l'annee au philipine deja pour se marie avec elle au philipine et que sa sa reconnue par le consulat de france
Juste une petite question, en lisant cet échange, je me suis rendue compte qu'il n'y avait que des hommes à vouloir convoler avec des oiseaux exotiques. Pourquoi pas le contraire ?
oui, mais il semblerait qu'il y ait des destinations homme et des destinations femmes.
Sur le site chum, tu vois peu de canadiens voulant épouser des cubaines...
Je trouve cela un sujet intéressant...
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?
