The application for a certificate of French nationality is delivered or sent to the clerk’s office of the judicial court or the local court chamber using a form. It shall be accompanied by documents meeting the requirements of article 9 of decree n° 93-1362 of 30 December 1993. The content of the form and the list of documents to be produced are determined by order of the Minister of Justice….
A challenge to the refusal to issue a certificate of French nationality is made by petition delivered or addressed to the clerk of the judicial court. The applicant is required to constitute a lawyer. The act of incorporation entails election of domicile. The action is brought, on pain of foreclosure, within six months of notification of the refusal or expiry of the time limits provided for in the third paragraph…
The public prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction to carry out the administrative rectification of purely material errors and omissions in civil status records and the annulment of irregularly drawn up records is the public prosecutor for the place where the record containing the initial error or omission or the irregularly drawn up record was drawn up. The public prosecutor for the place where the record containing the initial error or omission…
The Public Prosecutor with territorial jurisdiction shall give instructions to the custodians of the registers of the erroneous or annulled document, as well as to those holding the other documents affected by the same error or drawn up following the erroneous or annulled document. The Public Prosecutor shall inform the person to whom the document relates, his or her legal representative(s) or the person responsible for his or her protection…
The purely material errors or omissions which, pursuant to Article 99-1 of the Civil Code, may be rectified by the civil registrar, are: 1° An error or omission in a civil status record, proof of which is provided by the birth record of the person concerned, his or her parent or any other person named in the record in question, where the birth record is held by a French civil…
The judicial court or its president with territorial jurisdiction is that of the place where the person whose civil status is in question lives or, if he or she lives outside France, the judicial court of Paris or its president. The court of the place where the record was drawn up or transcribed may also be seised. Only the following courts, however, have jurisdiction: – the court of the place…
The action is open to any person who has an interest in it and to the public prosecutor.
The claim is lodged, investigated and judged as in non-contentious matters.
It may also be submitted without form to the public prosecutor, who will refer the matter to the competent court. However, if the public prosecutor intends to oppose the application, he will inform the applicant and invite him to refer the matter to the court himself by writ. .
The case is communicated to the public prosecutor’s office for its opinion. When the application is made by the Public Prosecutor or a third party, the person whose civil status is in question or their heirs shall be heard or called. To this end, the application shall state their surname, first name, domicile, date and place of birth without prejudice to the particulars provided for by the 3° of Article…
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