My husband is french and I'm american. We've talked about moving to France a few times in the last couple of years, but nothing serious. Now he may have the opportunity to open a store in Paris.
We've been married for over 8 years and have an almost-three year old. All of this time has been spent in America; we haven't been to France since 1999. So while we wait to see if this is going to happen (I'm about 80% certain), I'm occupying myself with paperwork details so that if it does happen, we'll be a bit more ready than not.
The first thing I discovered is that we should have registered our marriage and son's birth with the French Consulate. Our closest consulate is in Los Angeles, which really stretches the definition of "close" considering that we are in New Mexico.
Etat Civil / Civil Registry:
Note that the English version actually refers you to the french version without a hyperlink!
If your French isn't that great, ask your partenaire to assist you! However, my husband isn't very good at this kind of stuff or we wouldn't be trying to do it 8.5 years after the fact!
Another tricky issue is that we got married in a different state, so do we register the marriage with our nearest consulate or with the consulate for the state in which we married (Chicago - which ONLY has a french page concerning etat civil). If that's the case, then we'll register our marriage with one consulate, but our son's birth with another!
As far as I can understand, after we've registered this info we should get a "livret de famille"/a legal family record book - seems similar to the way that people write marriages, births, deaths in a family bible.
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