How do you make a declaration of nationality (déclaration de nationalité) by marriage to a French national?

• If you live in France, you provide the form cerfa n°15277 in 2 copies for the declaration of nationality by marriage, filled in, dated and signed by you and signed by your spouse too.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide 2 recent identity photos for the declaration of nationality by marriage, which you stick on the 2 copies of the form.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide the electronic timbre fiscal tax stamp of 255 € for the declaration of nationality by marriage.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide a copy of a piece of identification for the declaration of nationality by marriage: your passport or your residence permit (titre de séjour).Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide a copy of a recent justificatif de domicile (proof of address) for the declaration of nationality by marriage showing your surname, first name and full address.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide for the declaration of nationality by marriage your original birth certificate (acte de naissance) issued by the civil registrar of the place where the birth record is kept. If you live in France, the birth certificate for the declaration of nationality by marriage must give the surname, first name, date and place of birth of your parents.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide your original marriage certificate less than 3 months old for the declaration of nationality by marriage, and if the marriage took place abroad, you provide a copy of the transcription of your marriage on the French consular registers issued less than 3 months ago for a marriage contracted for 4 years or more.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide one document proving the French nationality of your spouse for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example your spouse's original birth certificate if your spouse was born in France to 2 parents born in France.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide a copy of your residence permit (titre de séjour) for the declaration of nationality by marriage, or of your valid passport if you are a European national who does not have to hold a residence permit.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide documents proving that your communauté de vie, both affective and material, has not stopped since the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example a joint tax notice (avis d'imposition) or the birth certificates of your common children.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide a recent document in both your names showing your current address for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example a recent electricity, water or landline telephone bill or a recent bank certificate for an active joint account.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France and you have been married for less than 5 years, you provide proof of regular and uninterrupted residence in France for at least 3 years since the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France, you provide a diploma or an attestation of your level in French for the declaration of nationality by marriage.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• A declaration of French nationality by marriage requires, if you live in France and lived abroad in the last 10 years, a foreign criminal record extract or equivalent issued after your arrival in France by a judicial or administrative authority of each country where you lived over 6 months in the last 10 years, but not the criminal record of your country of origin for a refugee or stateless person protected by Ofpra.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live in France and you have children, you provide the birth certificates (actes de naissance) of your children, adult or minor, born before or after the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage, and a birth certificate issued in France must be less than 3 months old.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04

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• If you live abroad, you provide the form cerfa n°15277 in 2 copies for the declaration of nationality by marriage, filled in, dated and signed by you and signed by your spouse too.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide 2 recent identity photos for the declaration of nationality by marriage, which you stick on the 2 copies of the form.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide a copy of a piece of identification for the declaration of nationality by marriage: your passport or your residence permit (titre de séjour).Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide a copy of a recent justificatif de domicile (proof of address) for the declaration of nationality by marriage showing your surname, first name and full address.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide for the declaration of nationality by marriage your original birth certificate (acte de naissance) issued by the civil registrar of the place where the birth record is kept. If you live abroad, the birth certificate for the declaration of nationality by marriage must give the surname, first name, date and place of birth of your parents.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide your original marriage certificate less than 3 months old for the declaration of nationality by marriage, and if the marriage took place abroad, you provide a copy of the transcription of your marriage on the French consular registers issued less than 3 months ago for a marriage contracted for 4 years or more.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide one document proving the French nationality of your spouse for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example your spouse's original birth certificate if your spouse was born in France to 2 parents born in France.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide a copy of your residence permit (titre de séjour) for the declaration of nationality by marriage, or of your valid passport if you are a European national who does not have to hold a residence permit.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide documents proving that your communauté de vie, both affective and material, has not stopped since the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example a joint tax notice (avis d'imposition) or the birth certificates of your common children.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide a recent document in both your names showing your current address for the declaration of nationality by marriage, for example a recent electricity, water or landline telephone bill or a recent bank certificate for an active joint account.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad and you have been married for less than 5 years, you provide proof of regular and uninterrupted residence in France for at least 3 years since the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad, you provide a diploma or an attestation of your level in French for the declaration of nationality by marriage.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• Nationality declaration by marriage: if you live abroad and resided abroad in the last 10 years, provide a foreign criminal record extract or equivalent. The extract or equivalent is issued after arrival in France by judicial or administrative authority of the country of residence, for each country of residence of more than 6 months, except the country of origin for refugees or stateless persons protected by Ofpra.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04
• If you live abroad and you have children, you provide the birth certificates (actes de naissance) of your children, adult or minor, born before or after the marriage for the declaration of nationality by marriage, and a birth certificate issued in France must be less than 3 months old.Service-Public · Checked 2026-11-04

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