Hi there. My partner and I would like to move to France as soon as possible and we’d love some help deciphering how to make this happen. A few quick facts about our situation which to set the scene: I am a British citizen My partner is a dual citizen of, and has passports from, both Poland and...

Planning a trip stateside for a family wedding. I am a U.S. citizen (and Spanish, hence my ability to live in France) and my PACS-partner is German. (I am male, she is female, though not sure if that matters.) We are both fully vaccinated with the Pfizer vaccine. The Covid regulations, as I...

Hello everyone! I will make this as short as possible, I've been on 3 French visas for the past 3 years when I finally met my partner over a year ago! Because of covid, we moved in together. It's been working wonderfully and I would like to stay with them until we are ready to move back to my...

Hello all, or Bonjour for French speakers, I am a French national residing in the UK. My partner who is a non-EEA national and I registered a PACS (Pacte Civil de Solidarite) in the French Consulate in London in August before she left the country as her visa expired. We applied for an EU...

Hi Everyone, Im a little confused with all the overload of information and lack of clarity on French Forums X_X I'm currently on a student visa (expiring Dec 2020) and have been staying in France for 2 years now. I have been living with my French boyfriend for the last 8 months. We have filed...

Hello all I'm new here. English, been in France since 94. My live-in Nigerian GF and I are thinking of getting PACsed. One of the first things I did on arriving here in 94 was to get my birth certificate translated by a 'traducteur assermenté'. But it now looks as if I'm required to get a...

Hello there, I recently got PACSed (with a French national) and have the rdv with the Prefecture (Val de Marne) on the 7th of May to change the title of my visa. Part of the requirements is to have a medical examination from the OFII. I did this back in 2013 when I came into France on the...

Hi Everyone! After one child and 10 years living together in France, my French man-person and I are PACsing. Pull out the fireworks. I have two questions: 1) The house we live in is his. We want to specify that should we separate, I will receive 40% of the house. How do we do this in the...

Hello all, Just want to say a big thank you for your advice for my previous comment :o So! I am a 26 year old from New Zealand currently living with my boyfriend in France. I have a visitors visa and am in the middle of renewing it so I have more time to decide what to do. I would love to stay...

Hello My long stay visitor visa expires on August 8th. I'm hoping to PACS with my french partner if possible before my visa expires but i'm seeing online that it take a minimum of 4 months in Lyon to get the appointment and I have 2 months before my visa expires. I thought i had previously...

I am planning to apply for a Long Stay Visitor's Visa with the consulate in NY. I have applied and received a 8 month visa before, so this will be my second time and this time my purpose is to get PACS with my boyfriend and to have a year long visa. When I arrive and register for my titre de...

Hi, I've seen this topic addressed numerous times in other threads here, but our situation has some unique particularities to it, and I was wondering if anyone here can lend some insight.. I'm American, my girlfriend is French. We've been living in Ireland together for over a year--I've been...

Hello Forum, I have a tricky carte de sejour question for you. I'll try to make it as simple as possible: I have US/Mexico citizenship, I came to France with my Mexican passport on a student visa or titre de sejour etudiant. I got Pacsed to my boyfriend after living with him for 1 year. We...

Hello, I am a young American that has been in France for almost a year. I have been living with my boyfriend for about a year and we decided to get PACS. I was wondering if anyone has ever been in that process before, as a foreigner marrying a French citizen. Do they have misgivings about...

Hi! I'm about to deal with the wonderful French administration again, but I have a few questions! I'm Australian and I got PACSed with my French boyfriend in March 2015. I went back to Australia and applied for a Long Stay Visitor visa in July 2015 which will expire in July 2016. We will...

Hello, I just have a quick question. I hold two nationalities (not european) and want to get pacsed. For the certificat de coutume, do I have to provide two? or does one suffice? Thanks!:)

Hello, I went to the Préfecture de Seine-et-Marne today to inquire about the CDS for the spouse of an EU national based on a PACS (All PACS requirements being already met). They told me that there was no problem getting that BUT..... First of all I thought it was supposed to be free of charge...

Hi guys! I'm American (female) My partner is a French male. We're thinking of getting PACS'd here in France simply because the whole shared debt thing in France is SCARY! and doing a prenup might be too much of an extra headache considering we want to move to the UK anyways. Any idea what's...

Hi all, This is my first post, and I appreciate all the great info that's out there! I'm American and my boyfriend is French, and we're considering getting PACSed. We met while I was here on a tourist visa. I am a freelance writer based in NYC. That said, I do not have any sort of long-term...

Hi everyone, I'm Australian and my boyfriend is French. We've been together for 3 years and I spent last year in Paris where we decided to get PACSed :) I'm now back in Australia and about to start applying for a long stay visitor visa. I know that being PACSed doesn't automatically grant a...