161 - Forbidden to love Back to main page --- Summary of all tickets Thursday, July 17, 2008
New Le Monde article, which concerns me a loan. On behalf of the suspicion, to maintain a nauseating populism, we close the borders to not only bodies but also souls.
marriages between French and foreigners increasingly controlled
F actur phone mails, photos ... it "all delivered " of his life. But neither the Appeals Board against the refusal of visas, nor the State Council, it has lodged an urgent application, would not listen. Married since January, Mary and Yassir, 25 and 24 years, share their lives through Webcam interposed.
In Fez, Morocco, Yassir waiting in vain that the French consulate granted him a visa to return to France to settle with his wife. They met in 2004 at Dijon, where both were studying. In late 2006, the administration refused to renew the residence permit Yassir. They were, however, PACS and Yassir was a promise hiring. Rather than staying in France illegally, Yassir is left to "regain approaches, legally, Morocco " and thus " put the odds of (their) side . Since then, he is still waiting. Invaded by a feeling of "great injustice ", he finds the situation "incomprehensible . Because "we do everything rule, we have a real plan for the future ..." Their marriage, Morocco, was transcribed by the French registry.
The case of Mary and Yassir is not isolated. For many mixed couples, marriage has become a term combatant. A reality in June 2007 led to the creation, in Montpellier, the collective " lovers banished public. In one year, this movement has taken root in more than a dozen cities and was attended by two thousand couples from all backgrounds and from all backgrounds. They are confronted with laws more stringent and Kafkaesque administrative practices in the name of the fight against bogus marriages and controlling family immigration. Wednesday, July 16, these couples are launching a propaganda campaign with a platform of ten demands for their right to live freely is respected.
" The issuance of a visa an alien to enable him to marry in France with a French person is very exceptional. In the vast majority of cases it is denied and couples are either forced to marry abroad, or to request a tourist visa for the spouse not French, "observes Nicolas Ferran Cimade, with the origin of the movement.
Abroad, we must first obtain the consulate of France a certificate of capacity to marry, then marriage celebrated, request a transcript from the French registry. The procedure may take several months . In France, the couple takes the risk of living in a time of illegality and be subject to investigation. The Constitutional Council recalled that the irregularity of the stay is not sufficient evidence to suspect a lack of sincerity and shall not impair the freedom of marriage. But some local officials routinely seize the prosecutor, the foreign spouse or without papers.
Ouafa, Moroccan, worked in France since 2006 as secretary legally translator. She married in January, a CNRS researcher. She did not like this "intrusion into the privacy " of her marriage before her marriage: "What is our crime : to love?" " In 1981, the requirement for foreigners to obtain permission from the warden to get married has been deleted . But, notes Nicolas Ferran this authorization is in fact restored: the prosecutor was simply substituted prefect. "
Laetitia Van Eeckhout
Source: The
Monde.fr
