French/American Couples - Part III - 2014

[ADIB 0]

Bonsoir à tous, concernant le document DS-2001, je ne l'ai pas envoyé, j'ai directement pris rdv avec l'ambassade des us à paris sur le site US-VISA, c'est simple et rapide, j'ai pu choisir la date qui me convenait. Je ramènerai avec moi le DS-2001 accompagné des autres documents!!

[boeint 0]

Bonjour tout le monde,

Je viens de recevoir ma date d'interview pour le 25 novembre!!

Seulement, petit problème, j'ai prévu un voyage (vers le Maroc) la semaine suivante, j'aurai donc besoin de mon passeport. Je ne peux donc pas leur laisser mon passport après l'entretien. Savez-vous si je peux garder mon passport, et leur donner un peu plus tard, quand je rentre du séjour (le 7 décembre) ?

C'est soit ça, soit je décale l'interview (mais je ne sais pas combien de temps ça va leur prendre. Là au moins j'ai une date), soit j'annule le voyage (je vais à un mariage)

Merci de votre aide!

[MarieDino 12]

Hi all,

Nous avons hier le Packet 3 par mail (via the Petitioner). Effectivement, ils demandent en ce moment d'envoyer le formulaire DS-2001 avant de pouvoir payer les frais du visa, prendre le rendez-vous médical et caler une date d'entretien à l'ambassade (qui sera je pense imposée).

Nous allons donc suivre les instructions à la lettre... en espérant que l'ambassade revienne vers nous rapidement avec une date pour l'entretien.

Est-ce qu'une personne qui a déjà effectuée l'entretien médical peut nous éclairer sur les vaccins à effectuer ? Comme le précise WC_AD, il a effectivement diverses sources sur le net et je n'arrive pas à savoir clairement quels vaccins je dois effectuer...

A mon avis, la liste ci-dessous est la bonne (pour les personnes agées de plus de 18 ans et moins de 65 ans) :

- Tdap : Diphteria, tetanus, Pertussis (whooping cough - la coqueluche)
- Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR vaccine) for persons born after 1956 only => vaccin ROR
- VARICELLA (Chicken Pox) for all applicants from 11 months old, unless you have actually had the illness
- INFLUENZA Vaccination is required during Flu season for all applicants after the age of 6 months old. => vaccin contre la grippe

Bon courage à tous !!

Hi all,

We received yesterday through my fiancé email (the petitioner) Packet 3 from Paris Embassy. Turns out that they are requesting, when all documents required are ready, to send the DS-2001 form directly to the Embassy (without any other documents). Then, we have to wait for them to contact us to pay the visa fee, take the medical exam and set an appointment date (not possible to chose the date for the interview).

We are going to follow these instructions. We hope that the embassy will contact us fast to set an interview date.

Is anyone of you guys already set their medical appointment and can give us more info about the required vaccines? WC_AD said it, there are SO many different information that we are lost..

From what I read, I think you need to do those vaccins (from 18 years-old to under 65) :

- Tdap : Diphteria, tetanus, Pertussis (whooping cough)
- Measles, mumps, rubella (MMR vaccine) for persons born after 1956 only
- VARICELLA (Chicken Pox) for all applicants from 11 months old, unless you have actually had the illness
- INFLUENZA Vaccination is required during Flu season for all applicants after the age of 6 months old.

Thank you for you help, and good luck to all!!

Salut !

Question - there are a million different sites out there that give different information on what vaccinations one needs to immigrate.

For anyone that has gone through medical and interview recently ---- do you have a list of the vaccinations that you were expected to have?

Here are the websites we've already checked out (none of which completely agree with one another):

http://www.visajourney.com/consulates/index.php?ctry=France&cty=Paris --- this is coherent with ---> http://www.uscis.gov/news/questions-and-answers/vaccination-requirements

but different that both of these: http://travel.state.gov/content/visas/english/immigrate/vaccinations.html & http://travel.state.gov/content/dam/visas/Medical/PRS%20-%20Paris.pdf

Any advice is very very welcome as my fiancé is supposed to have his interview within the next month or so and some of these shots he may or may not need have two rounds with 1 month in between (Hep B, etc.).

Thank you / Merci !

[Nadege 0]

Here is the vaccination sheet I got from the doctor before attending my medical exam. Hope this helps

VisaVaccins.pdf

[MarieDino 12]

Here is the vaccination sheet I got from the doctor before attending my medical exam. Hope this helps

MERCI!!!!!!! It's perfect, I'm gonna be able to go see my doctor to get the shots

[Nadege 0]

MERCI!!!!!!! It's perfect, I'm gonna be able to go see my doctor to get the shots

No problem, good luck

[Blueprints 0]

Hi everybody,
So, for those who have already filed their AOS already and so on, does it have to show our final name? Can my name change occur later in the process, will that screw everything up?

Btw I'm about to get married, I landed in the US, it's wonderful... But my fiancé is going to change their name (long story) but cannot do that until the spring. However, I'm afraid that if I file with my current name and then change my name when he changes his, the paperwork with the state will be screwed. Anyone can help?

TL;DR: est-ce que je peux changer mon nom après avoir envoyé les papiers pour l'AOS ?

Thank you!

[ADIB 0]

Bonjour tout le monde, je devais avoir mon entretien à l'ambassade des usa à PARIS hier à 13H00 suite à ma prise de rdv en ligne sur le site US-VISA je n'ai donc pas jugé utile d'envoyer le formulaire DS-2001 mais j'ai eu tort car à l'entrée l'agent de sécurité m'a bien fait comprendre qu'il fallait envoyer le DS-2001 et attendre une reponse de l'ambassade, du coup j'ai envoyé ce formulaire ce matin en esperant avoir une réponse rapidement. Je trouve certaines choses incompréhensible mais bon... Gaffe à vous si vous êtes dans le même cas que moi.

[newbie87 20]

My wife and I got married overseas (outside U.S. And France) is it really necessary to registered Our marriage with the French government ? Our marriage is recognized by the U.S. Government and my wife has her 10 years green card, keep in mind that we have no intention of moving back to France which is why we never registered our marriage.....will she has trouble when it comes to US citizenship because we don't have "live de famille"

[cherryL 1]

Salut les frenchies ! Je suis passée par tout le processus d'immigration et j'ai maintenant la green card et je vis aux USA, si ca vous interesse, voici mon blog, il y'a de tout, mes experiences, la carte verte et tout le reste. bon courage à tous ! http://fromhometothere.blog.com/

[Tdeboevre 2]

Bonjour a toutes et a tous.

Petite question un peu annexe, mais l'un/e d'entre vous a-t-il deja effectué le renouvellement de son passeport Français via le consulat a Chicago ?

Si oui, a quoi s'attendre niveau délai entre le premier rendez-vous et l'envoi/remise du nouveau passeport ?

Je compte repartir en France pendant une semaine en Juillet, donc obligation de renouveler mon passeport qui sera périmé d'ici la...

Ce qui me "navre" car je serai en mesure de faire ma demande de naturalisation ce même mois de Juillet, et donc le passeport Français deviendra caduque avant la fin de sa validité.

Merci bien !

[ninz 14]

Bonjour a tous! Est-ce je peux utiliser la copie de l'acte de naissance recent avec mention du divorce au lieu de jugement du divorce? J'amerais eviter d'exposer les detailles et eviter de traduire 10 pages. Ou la raison pourquoi ils demandent ce doc c'est parce que ils veulent voir les detailles financieres?

Hi everyone! What is the reason they' re asking the divorce certificate? Can I use my recent dated french birth certificate where it says that I was married on that day, i was divorced on that day with this person on in that place by this court? Or they want to see details, such as financial details?

[kels_et_sam 1]

French Citizenship question (admins, feel free to move this to a more appropriate thread if necessary):

I (the American citizen) have been married to my husband (the French citizen) since January 5, 2013. We have been living in Boston, MA the entire time. At first I thought I could apply for French citizenship after 5 years of marriage, but my husband was at the French consulate yesterday, and they told him 4 years of marriage.

Has anyone on this site gone through the process of French citizenship through marriage? The 'lovely' French bureaucratic system is confusing the heck out of me, and I would love to be able to find a site like this to help me through the process. Especially where I need to give proof of my level of French, which I currently have no written documents proving that level. I know I will need to take one of the exams, so I just want to make sure I am taking the right one, at the right time, etc.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

[ninz 14]

Kels and Sam!
I've done the whole process and the rules didn't changed since. I can tell you that in your case you have to wait until 5 years officially living together in States. I know it's confusing. Because 4 yrs rule applies only If you would've be able to prove that you lived in France with your husband at least 3 years. I had same situation, I lived overseas the entire time, and they told me this is clearly a "5 yrs rule".

Regarding French level. In my case I didn't provided anything that would justify my integrity with French culture (I wasn't enrolled in alliance francaise) Nor I had any document to justify my level of French. I guess I had one French visa in my passport, one trip to France and that's it. My interview was in French and I speak French better that majority of applicants (according to consul) so I don't remember, she somehow helped me because she said that would've be ridiculous for me to take an extra french exam. She said she saw many applicants barely speaking French and they still got citizenship, they attended French courses. I believe you can enrol in online courses or ask them what will be acceptable in your case. I'm telling you my story and what I have personally heard, yet talk to them before deciding what course to chose etc.

Edited April 12, 2016 by vesnaodna

[kels_et_sam 1]

Kels and Sam!

I've done the whole process and the rules didn't changed since. I can tell you that in your case you have to wait until 5 years officially living together in States. I know it's confusing. Because 4 yrs rule applies only If you would've be able to prove that you lived in France with your husband at least 3 years. I had same situation, I lived overseas the entire time, and they told me this is clearly a "5 yrs rule".

Regarding French level. In my case I didn't provided anything that would justify my integrity with French culture (I wasn't enrolled in alliance francaise) Nor I had any document to justify my level of French. I guess I had one French visa in my passport, one trip to France and that's it. My interview was in French and I speak French better that majority of applicants (according to consul) so I don't remember, she somehow helped me because she said that would've be ridiculous for me to take an extra french exam. She said she saw many applicants barely speaking French and they still got citizenship, they attended French courses. I believe you can enrol in online courses or ask them what will be acceptable in your case. I'm telling you my story and what I have personally heard, yet talk to them before deciding what course to chose etc.

Thank you for your advice! My husband was at the French consulate in Boston on Monday, and they gave him this website: http://www.consulfrance-washington.org/spip.php?article258 to check out. That's where I got tripped up about needing to take an exam. I am fine to do an interview in French, but I would hate to fork out $200 to take an exam - when the results are only good for 1 or 2 years. French bureaucracy at its finest. Did you have to go to Washington DC for your interview? My husband was told that Boston used to do interviews, but now they are only done in DC.