Question 1314 — marital status

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Ms. Patricia Mirallès draws the attention of Ms. the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, to the modalities of implementation by the municipalities of article 56 I of law no. 2016-1547 of November 18, 2016. This article diverts the procedure for changing a first name and transfers it to the civil status officer of the municipality of birth or residence of the person concerned. The investigation of these requests is based on the reality of the legitimate interest in view of existing case law. The request for a change of first name is a life project of the applicant, carefully considered and supported by solid and serious motivations. Some citizens born in countries where the first name was not an obligation only have incomplete civil status. She draws attention to the fact that having only a first name and no first name can be experienced as a form of suffering, an obstacle to social life, and that these people are keen to have, in application of the aforementioned law, a complete civil status. However, notices of change of first name sent to the central civil status service under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, following the decisions of civil status officers, cannot be followed up in accordance with the instructions of the Nantes public prosecutor's office. We end up here with a grotesque situation: a person wishing to change their first name because it is detrimental to him can see his request successful, but an applicant born abroad who has never had a first name and legitimately wishes to be considered as everyone with a complete civil status, sees his request rejected. She asks him, on behalf of citizens who still find themselves without a first name, to allow the creation of first names for applicants born abroad, so that they can be considered as citizens, humans, full women and men.

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