MY FRENCH NATIONALITY APPLICATION | See what's inside!
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- Опубліковано 13 лип 2024
- I applied for French nationality par décret (naturalization)! Check out the components of my dossier as I talk you through the exact documents for my French nationality application!
And here's my video on the French nationality language test: • How to prepare for the...
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DOCUMENTS MENTIONED IN THE VIDEO
1. Your personal checklist of documents: bit.ly/2yFhYy8
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2. Cover letter / lettre de motivation
3. Lettre suivi 500g + blank envelope with stamp
4. ID photos (Photomaton)
5. Timbre fiscal 55 euros (Tabac) - update, you can now buy the exact amount online: timbres.impots.gouv.fr/
6. 2x copies of the application form cerfa 12753*02: bit.ly/2HqypXY
7. Birth certificate (with apostille)
8. Copy of your passport
9. Copy of your visa / carte de sejour
10. Copy of your parent’s birth certificates and marriage certificate
11. French test (B1 minimum) or French university degree
12. Marriage certificate + ID of my partner (his national ID card and passport)
13. Proof of address + quittance de loyer (rent receipts) for the past 3 months + recent gas and electricity bill
14. French criminal record + criminal record from any country lived in for 6 months of longer over the past 10 years: bit.ly/2AmIuzm
15. Certificat de travail (work certificates) for the past 3 years
16. Your current work contract + attestation stating how much you earn + your current job title
17. Your 3 most recent payslips
18. Avis d’imposition (tax receipts) for the past 3 years
19. P237 document for the past 3 years stating that you have paid your taxes from sending a secure message on this site: www.impots.gouv.fr/portail/
20. Your November and December pay slips for the past 3 years (plus those of your partner IF you declare taxes together)
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The point of this paperwork is not to prove you deserve to become French. The act of filling up these endless forms is ACTUALLY TURNING YOU INTO FRENCH.
Bienvenue chez les fous.
C'est vrai.
😂😂😂
Asterix le montre très bien ici : ua-cam.com/video/c45FtDhdDoY/v-deo.html . L’administration française dans toute sa splendeur
Nope, the point is to get everybody out of fortress Europe. So she needs to convince the bureaucracy she has a real interest in here. I mean it's ludicrous, she actually has to explain why she is moving. It is so degrading. It's none of anybody's business why is she doing whatever she wants to do...OMG I'm done explaining it here. Where is our freedom??
Très vrai 😂
You hope this was interesting?? It was incredibly useful. I took a bunch of notes. I wish you all the very best. I hope you can become a citizen without any hint of a hitch. Thank you for including us on this journey of your life.
When my husband applied to get the French nationality (I'm French myself) he had to wait 1 year after our wedding and when the file was ready, he had an interview at the police station and another one at the "prefecture de Nanterre". The lady there was so happy that he could speak perfect French that instead of 10 minutes they talked more than half an hour together. It happened in 2004 and rules have changed since then. Moreover during a year + 1day we didn't hear from the administration at all. And he received his birth certificate and became French!
Un de mes amis, iranien de naissance, vient d'obtenir la nationalité française. Lors de l'entretien final, à coté de questions sur les grandes valeurs de la République française comme la laïcité, on lui a demandé quel était son plat préféré - il leur a dit qu'il adorait la tartiflette, ça a achevé de les convaincre qu'il méritait d'être français. ;-)
Quand on dit que les français sont obsédés par la bouffe ;-)
N Fontaine, Je suis dubitatif !! Que les fonctionnaires gobent cette fable. Ça sent la Taqiya pas très subtile venant d'un soumis à Allah.
@@nickduf haha parce que tu crois qu'il n'y a que des musulmans en Iran, pauvre de toi
J'adore!! Bonne réponse!
C'est sûr qu'un blanc a besoin de remplir tout un dossier, alors que pour la racaille afro-islamique, elle, elle obtient la nationalité française juste en invoquant le racisme ou l'islamophobie ...
@@nickduf Mon copain est complétement athée comme pas mal d'iraniens. Je suis allé 4 fois en Iran, la plupart des iraniens que j'ai rencontrés n'allaient jamais à la mosquée ni ne faisaient leurs prières. Quant à la question sur son plat préféré, vous excluez totalement qu'un fonctionnaire, en l'occurrence une fonctionnaire, ait de l'humour ? De toutes façons il aurait bien pu citer un plat halal, on naturalise aussi des musulmans.
We are so proud of having you in our country Rosie
Thank you soooooo much! This video was so helpful!! Good luck with your application!
The joy of French bureaucracy. I'm French and became Canadian a few years ago, and the paperwork is easier by far.
Pascal OLIVIER same in Australia.
Devenir Français ce n'est pas comme acheter un paquet de lessive. Donc les papiers sont justifiés !
I am.french citizen and is it easy to work in canada ?🙏🙏🙏
@@VeroTg28 it is easier to find a job than in France. I like also the fact that you feel less the hierarchy in companies.
Is it easy to settle there? I mean if i get job their ,can i apply for PR?
Thank you so much for all this information! While its overwhelming, its also very useful to know all of this so thank you so much! Good luck!
If you really love France then be french and be proud! Congratulations 🤗
Thank you so much Rosie for making this video. Congrats for sending it off. I am really interested in becomming a french citizen too and thanks for outlining what you need. Good luck on the interview!
Hi Rosie, great video! I also applied in Paris and had my interview last week. It was about 9 months between them receiving my documents and the interview itself. Now the agonising waiting period for the final decision begins! Fingers crossed and remaining positive! Good luck to you too! :)
Good luck with the dossier. I have my naturalisation interview next Tuesday, after 8 months since I had my dossier accepted last May (as a time benchmark for you). Of course problems with l'administration along the way, but final step in a few days!
Bienvenue dans l'administration française.
@Cereal Killer
Exemple ?
L'administration applique les lois votées. Si, elles sont si compliquées, c'est que le législateur a voulu rendre difficile l'obtention de la nationalité française
@@christophe77700
Pas seulement. J'ai déjà dù revenir a l'antenne de la prefecture de police car ils me demandaient des papiers non nécessaires au moins officiellement (acte de naissance alors que j'avais une carte d'identité, valide qui plus est ; attestation d'hébergement de mes parents alors que la facture de téléphone est à mon nom). Il y a des circulaires ou des directives internes qui n'ont rien a voir avec la loi.
On est quand même un des seuls pays où un certificat de naissance est valable 3 mois
@@gaellehubert6060
...et aussi un des seuls pays ou le certificat de naissance est annoté en cas de : adoption, mariage, divorce ou autre du même genre.
Ceci explique cela.
juste bon courage Rosie !! On se ravie de t'avoir avec nous :)
J’adore quand tu glisses quelques mots IN FRENCH 🙂
« lettre de motivation »... « photomaton».... «situation judiciaire»... 😊🙏😍
ce que j'adore encore plus c'est voir le sous-titrage automatique de UA-cam finir en PLS à chaque fois par exemple "I have my attestation" devenant "I have my F estación" 😂
this video was so helpful! I'm not living in france yet but I hope to one day and i've heard that the process was long so thank you for showing us what we need and how to find it
Thank you! It's really good to see what the dossier ought to look like (and I can *feel* how much it weighs)!
I wish you all the best, on Monday coming I'm going to apply for my first French passport (citizenship by marriage) it's a long annoying process but so gratifying when you get through 😊😊
Merci, Rosie! Très interessant! Bon courage!
Your channel should be renamed “Not even French (yet)” ;)
Best of luck for your application! And thanks for the video, it was really interesting even if I’m French-born: I didn’t have to go through that paperwork, so I learned how it’s happening. Looking forward to seeing your name in the Journal officiel (I check it every morning for my work).
Wow, that sounds exhausting. Thank you for a very thorough reality check on what it takes to get into France. I am Canadian and can get to Montréal in about 5 hours by car. It reminds me to appreciate being in a bilingual country and how friendly people are here. I have spent most of my life learning French (and now Spanish) and my kids are both fluent in French but it seems I will have to make do with a max 3 months in France per year! I cannot bear that paperwork. Unless I move to Mexico. 😊
Best wishes for speedy process!
Thanks Rosie. This is going to help a few of my friends starting the process! I've just gotta start the process of getting a Carte de Sejour in the wake of Brexit.
Proud to have you soon within the community of French citizens
More seriously, very interesting video even for French people as we don’t necessarily know that 👍
As a french man, I found this very interesting, since I don't need to go through all that crap^^ damn that's so complicated to become french! And they'll ask you if you are in an association or voluntering?! These are things original french don't even do that much, I mean we do have associations and stuff but it's not like you're not french if you don't do that you know? It's not a "french trait" is what I mean^^ But anyways kudos to you for getting through all of this! Hope you'll get it!!^^
Meric Wolf dont know what to say but proper migrant that contribute to society have to go through crap but illegal one actually get the easy way, salute from former french indochine
@@hunterhalo if they are illegal migrants, they didn't have it the "easy way" to begin with either. That's a different debate for a different video, but just don't jump to conclusions like that please, because it's simply not true.
@@audreysaid2235 Illegal immigrants want and need proper documents to stay and work legally in France. Becoming French is very secondary for them
Congrats on your decision to go for citizenship on your own 👍🏻💙
I hope you will get the nationnality of France, you deserves it
So interesting! You’re quite inspiring.
Thank you for very useful information!
Applied via descent. Much easier and quicker. Hope it all goes well from an French Aussie!! 🇦🇺🇳🇿🇫🇷
That is insane. You are so committed! I just received my Dutch citizenship through naturalisation, and while I paid more (850 euros, I think), because of the seriously impressive efficiency of the Dutch government, I think I only had to show proof of integration (passing an integration exam or language test - I did the language test) and show my (UK) passport, birth certificate and marriage certificate (although since I had already submitted the last two to the municipality, they were already registered so I didn't actually need to show them again). I made an appointment at city hall, showed the documents and paid (right there, by card) and then waited for the 'Royal Decree' decision (which comes after the Dutch government does their own security check) and then a ceremony in my city in which I had to swear to uphold the Dutch laws etc. The ceremony makes the decree official. The government keeps all the information current, so I didn't need to prove I've lived here for years because they can see that as soon as they type in my social security number. Same with getting a driver's licence and passport - the information (when you pass your driving test, and your citizenship) is all right there so you just make an appointment, go in with your photo and pay and collect your document a week later. And here I'm still thinking I want to move to France! I must be crazy! You are so hardcore. I'm sure your application will be successful. :)
the real issue in france is the different administratif services don't communicate bewteen themself so you have to provided everything....
J’espère que ça marchera pour toi ! Bienvenue et merci d’avoir choisi mon pays et de m’en donner une si belle image, en tant que local on l’oublie parfois :)
Wow, C1 is really high. You're French must be so good
6:50 Have you already made a full french spoken video ? I really would like to see one☝️. I am really curious 😏. Anyway congratulations for becoming French 👏🇫🇷 and getting passed all that bureaucracy. 👏👏🇫🇷🇫🇷 I couldn’t stand a quarter of it... Hip, hip, hip ? Hourra !!!
No need to buy a prepaid enveloppe for sending in suivi.
Use your own, stamp accordingly (grey, green or red stamp depending on the priority, 1, 2, 4, 6 or 8 stamps depending on the weight) and add a 40 cents barcode for the tracking.
Great video. Question though. Do you have to actually physically live in France for 5 years? What if I go on a long-term vacation for three months?
Thankyou for explaining in such detail.
I have a question, tho. By any chance, do you have more information regarding the possibility of applying to Naturalisation after 2 years of studying in the university? You mention it in a note at the beginning, and I'm actually
considering doing that next year. And Ive seen that it's a legal possibility, But I haven't found many testimonies of people who've done it.
Hello Thanks for this information. I follow your channel and it is helping me a lot to learn about french culture from a foreigner point of view. However the link you mentioned to find out about documents and eligibility doesn't work any more.
J'aime bien tes vidéos. Je suis étudiant, ce sont mes parents qui s'occupent de la paperasse. Vu comment je suis bordélique, j'appréhende beaucoup l'administration française lorsque je vivrai chez moi/seul. Hors sujet :Il paraît que niveau paperasse c'est pas mal blindé côté arme à feu en France. Bon j'imagine que beaucoup s'en réjouissent mais sachez que de plus en plus de personnes se tournent vers l'illégalité...
Bonne continuation !
Ps:Je suis pessimiste et tes vidéo sur la France font du bien
What a crazy process. I have been living here for 1.5 years, but as I have a German passport and any Paris disadvantages will disappear with practice (losing the heavy accent and I only got my first avis d'impôts yesterday and would have needed it before), I am not planning on applying. I might do all the language tests one day, though
Wow amazing that’s great
great job.
So interesting to watch, I recently applied for canadian citizenship and the application there is way less intense, you basically just need to meet the residence requirement (3 years out of 5), proof of language in English or French and not have a recent criminal conviction over 6 months. $600 for the application though
Thank you!
Rosie: Privacy concern!!! At 3.59, your address is legible. I wouldn't leave it that way, lest someone use it.
@@NotEvenFrench
I don't want to be demoralizing, but your adress is easily findable on internet.
@@NotEvenFrench De rien.
@@Leebpascal1 That may be. However, if someone stalked her, etc and requested court protection, they cannot say «Well, you put your address on the Internet, so it is your fault.»
@@KimberlyGreen Ca ne marche pas comme ça. Même si ton adresse est "partout" sur Internet et facilement accessible, le fait d'être harcelé est une infraction pénale, ça n'empêchera pas le juge de prononcer envers la personne harceleuse une placement en détention provisoire ou sous contrôle judiciaire avec interdictions appropriées
@@christopheccy5705 Ah merci. C'est bon à savoir. Néanmoins, la prudence est la voie la plus sage, oui?
I am refugees so would you mind telling me is there any difference in getting a nationality or was its almost same?
Thanks for such an informative vedio, can you please help me in TCF prepration i have test in 2 weeks 😂, what books or material should i consult ?
cant find the link to the tool you mentioned about putting in all your info for your area?
If I applied to be a citizen through ancestry then who do you think I should contact after to see how my application is coming along? I can’t find a number or email anywhere. The consulates wont help me and I’m growing helpless.
'Welcome' in french administration. Which btw also provides one of the best database for genealogists and is one of the reason that the oldest indisputably recognized living human is french.
Whew! Bonne chance! Post a video of you practicing for the Marseillaise, lol!
00919952150680
Mdr 😂
Hi, can you please let me know if the parents certificates need to be translated and with apostil? Or the simple copy is enaough? Thank you
si bon!
Ok, now you definitively need a video where you sing the Marseillaise.
After sending all the requirements to the prefecture.. how long did you wait for them to contact/message you..?
Hey hun. The first link the checklist no longer works 😅. Is there anywhere else I can find this checklist?
Good information video
merci
It makes me remember a US joke: « in the Canadian naturalization form there are 2 questions. 1) Do you want to become Canadian ? 2) Really ????? »
benoit guitard never heard that before! I’m Canadian btw.
HK77 it was in an episode of « how I met your mother » a Barney’s line of course 😂
@@benoitguitard2887 I see, thanks. I never watched that show. It's quite difficult immigrating to Canada actually.
@@hk19478 Interesting. I thought it was quite easy speaking to the immigrants I spoke to. Adult immigrants with parents and kids from various brown countries. On arrival they had a health card.
What happens if one of your parents refuses to provide their birth certificate and marriage certificate? Is there anything that can be done or do you just.....not get citizenship now?
So have you got it finally? It's already 1 year and 6 months from the video :)
Is it DELF B1 or DELF B2 Diplôme required to obtain citizenship in France. What are the benefits of having DELF B1 Diplôme?
can someone answer- is is compulsory that you pass the french test? I am not talking of myself as I am in greta on french training for work but these english here going on about oh easy to do are leaving it a bit late! And speak hardly- any french!
Can the embassy of my original country provide me with the documents needed? Or do i have to fly back to my country to gather the paperwork?
Oh Rosie I am so in love with your necklace. 😍 I would love to know where you got it 😚
@@NotEvenFrench merci Rosie et bonne chance pour ta naturalisation 🤩
I m french but i lived 3 years in england when i was little in primary school and when i came back to france i had to change so much attitude like the humour is really not the same and it was weird for me ... i think you understand what i mean and specially the school subjets are differents even math ! it was hard to catch up in france when i came back lol
math is harder in france?
Wow! Those French are really tough! It took me about two months to successfully complete all the formalities for my German citizenship. 😮
I think it can also be explained through the situation of each country
Germany doesn’t make enough babies
They need immigrants
Maybe that’s one of the reasons why it was easier (and of course efficiency)
Pourrait on avoir une vidéo de toi, Rosie, en train de chanter "la Marseillaise", le jour où tu auras reçu la nationalité Française ? Cela pourrait être fun avec ton charmant accent Néo-Zélandais ! :D
Have you had your interview yet? I'm in the process of applying
Can you apply at the 4th year mark? Since it takes up to a year to hear back?
A propos du timbre fiscale normalement tu peux en acheter un dans un tabac-presse (et non à la poste, oui il n'y a pas de logique) et au final ça ne ressemble pas vraiment à un timbre mais plus à un ticket de caisse avec un QR code, enfin c'était le cas pour le dernier timbre fiscale que j'ai acheté afin de renouveler mon passeport.
That was 2 years ago... I will now look for any news in ur latest video
Hope u got the good news
Peace.
Je te souhaite la bienvenue dans notre administration française très branchée documents 😂 😂 😂, c'est rigolo quand tu glisses des mots en français, personnellement j'adore. Bon serieusement tu mérites amplement de devenir Française 😊.
Merci pour cette vidéo qui montre qu'en fait la France n'est pas pire que les autres pays.
Thanks for the video, showing that France is not worse than other countries. (j'ai un doute sur le "worse than", vu que je ne pratique plus l'anglais depuis de très/trop longues années).
Criminal records checks in the US can be pretty ridiculous. For my last job, I had to wait while the third party that performed my background check called every county in which I've lived and got my criminal history (or lack thereof). It took two weeks. You're lucky NZ makes it so easy!
When I got citizenship card in France, can I changed my name and date of birth also ?
Can u suggest me , I can apply to other prefecture that I am living in . For example I live in Paris can I apply in Rouen .
I just want to see a video with you singing "La Marseillaise" thanks
Hi, you mentioned that you did a Master in France, but it was in English. Did it specify that the program was taught in English on your master’s certificate? Was your program’s name in English or French?
I’ll trying the 2-year French higher education route, but my master’s is also in English, so that’s why I wanna know.
Thanks.
Same here. Let me know if you figure it out. Trying to do the same thing :)
Hi, I’m interested to know....i just sent last montb my application, how long will I wait for them to reply? Did you get your nationality? Thanks
Hey hey! I am wondering if you got the citizenship already?
I lived in so many places for about the same period and I'd feel so odd about claiming I became this or that so quickly.
Please I need you help… my dad is French citizen but I was born in Ghana … what do I have to do to file for citizenship
What to do when the applicant's parents are divorced and he/she can not get the birth certificate of one of the parents?
From which site is the French national certificate checked?
tu va être une très bonne addition à la France
Je suis d'accord avec toi.
100% d'accord
Rosie could you please answer this: Why did you have to wait 5 years before applying for French citizenship even though you could have applied after 2 years since you did your master's degree there?
@@NotEvenFrench Thank you so much for your help, Rosie. Lots of love from Egypt. :)
i like your channel (wondrful) 👌✌👍
So you can get this as a brit, and I cant caus I am missing all the credentials
so glad you did this video, looking forward to going through that process in like 5 years, haha, not. Almost finished with the process of getting married, and France has made it so stressful and complicated, haha, but they want to make sure that even though our marriage will be recognized in France, it has to be completely under French law instead of Korean or US law. I'm from the US, my partner is from France, and we're getting married in Korea, that's quite a bit of paperwork and money on birth certificates and apostilles and translations and shipping documents and translators, and notaires in France. This is all just for the French government, Korean and US governments don't make this process complicated. But this is the way we need to do it, neither of us have lived in US or France for like 4 years (he's never lived in the US, and I've never lived in France either), we're legal residents of Korea, so Korea it is.
So in this case, would you have dual citizenship for both France and New Zealand? Or would you have to renounce your New Zealand citizenship. I actually don't know anything about this, so interesting!
Haleyscomet125 you would have dual
If i am not working (am unable to wrk bez i hv a child) hw can i apply???
This is the year I was planning on applying, but I have to admit that getting all the paperwork from my home country and then having it translated seems a bit daunting (and expensive)!
Good advice! Seeing you go through the process has definitely made it seem doable. Thanks for walking us all through your application. My first four visas were expensive but I'm now on a 10-year one, so the cost is a little more spread out. My main concern is finding the paperwork from my parents. They were immigrants themselves to Canada and I have no idea where their birth certificates might be!
How long do I have to work in France to get that “citizenship” then? 😀
Hi. I'm just creating my dossier for naturalisation. In yours did you put original birth certificates for your parents or copies? Thanks biz
generally with french administration you only give copies, not the original documents, so they can keep them. Good luck with your naturalization!
on the prefecture site it states no copies, original documents only
Not sure if anyone else asked this yet.... Some countries give special consideration to those individuals whose parents or grandparents were born in that country (even if they were not) - is France one of those ???
Vous allez sûrement l’avoir très chère, vous connaissez la France mieux que beaucoup de français, et on sens vraiment que vous aimez notre pays, moi je vous dis d’ores et déjà félicitation pour votre nationalité française et je suis très contente de vous compter parmi mes compatriotes ❤️
How many year have to stay after msc to get pr
Bonjour