#79550 - 03/17/09 07:35 PM
help with moorea!
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iva
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Registered: 03/17/09
Posts: 7
Loc: wyoming
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hello, could someone please help me with a few questions i have about moving to moorea?
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#79569 - 03/17/09 11:00 PM
Re: help with moorea!
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STM
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Registered: 10/15/01
Posts: 1616
Loc: Oregon, USA
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Don't know the question, but the answer is:
Unless you are French or Tahitian, or you can support yourself without working, you won't be given the permits to do it.
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#79578 - 03/18/09 04:23 PM
Re: help with moorea!
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iva
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Registered: 03/17/09
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Loc: wyoming
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I have done some reading and realize that it is very difficult if not impossible to work, but would it make a difference that my mom is tahitian? she lives in the united states now, but her and my dad are considering moving back and she never gave up her citizenship. They problem i have is i was born in the states and am now married with children. we have family on both tahiti and moorea- would this help me obtain a visa?
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#79579 - 03/18/09 04:23 PM
Re: help with moorea!
[Re: STM]
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iva
Junior Member
Registered: 03/17/09
Posts: 7
Loc: wyoming
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I have done some reading and realize that it is very difficult if not impossible to work, but would it make a difference that my mom is tahitian? she lives in the united states now, but her and my dad are considering moving back and she never gave up her citizenship. They problem i have is i was born in the states and am now married with children. we have family on both tahiti and moorea- would this help me obtain a visa?
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#79612 - 03/19/09 08:01 AM
Re: help with moorea!
[Re: iva]
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BarbiJKM
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Registered: 02/14/07
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Loc: Mesa, AZ
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Iva, I've emailed you some information about this but will post my reply below for others who might be interested in the answer:
I would start with your mother's nationality. Is she a French citizen still holding a French passport? If so, you should contact the French consulate for the area where you live in the USA and inquire whether your mother's children possibly hold dual citizenship with France. With some European countries, your parent's citizenship is enough to endow you with citizenship in that country even though you were born elsewhere and currently hold an American citizenship. So that is first and foremost for you to check. If you are indeed a French citizen under French law, you can begin to apply for a French passport, and with a French passport, you can freely enter and live in French Polynesia.
The website to determine which French embassy you should contact (by where you live in the USA) is:
http://france.usembassy.gov/root/pdfs/rennes-frenchembassy.pdf
and
http://ambafrance-us.org/spip.php?rubrique2
Now, if it turns out that you cannot apply for French citizenship/passport based on your mother's nationality, then you will be considered an American for immigration purposes to FP. (And this would be true for your husband in either case.) An American cannot stay in FP for more than 30 days without obtaining a visa from the French Consulate, either short-term stay (31-90 days) or long-term stay (up to six months). An American cannot easily own property without complicated government permission, nor work without a government permit, which is VERY VERY difficult to obtain. Although your mother, if still a French citizen, can certainly own land and buy a business there, but it is unlikely she could legally hire you or your husband as an American employee.
So your very best case scenario would be for you to obtain French citizenship if that is possible, and for your husband to apply for a long term visa for the first six months. If he can prove he is self-supporting after that six months, he would have to apply for a carte de sejour (resident visa) to stay for a longer period with you, as his French wife, but he would still not be permitted to work in FP. If he can do his job from anywhere, maybe he can remain employed at his current job. (This would all require a TON of paperwork, by the way!)
Although I am an American law school graduate and thus legally trained in US law, I have to warn you that I am NOT trained in French law. Anything I am telling you is from personal experience in my 15 years of travel to FP, experience in dealing with the French Consulate myself in obtaining short-stay and long-stay visas, and from the experiences of my ex pat American friends who are living on Moorea, either part-time or full time, some married to Tahitians or French citizens. So consider my opinion just "word-of-mouth," and you really need to contact a French Consulate for REAL legal advice!
I hope this helps! I'd love to hear what you find out about whether you can actually obtain French citizenship based on your mom's nationality (dual with your American citizenship, which you would not need to give up), and how your plans are working out!
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