If they salute the compliance of the forms with the law, the associations regret that this change only intervenes in 2022, eight years after the law on marriage for all.
It took eight years. The civil status forms, which allow you to claim an identity card or passport, will be modified to include homoparental families from March 2022, announced Friday, 12 November the Minister Delegate to Citizenship, Marlène Schiappa.
Concretely, the necessary papers and web forms for any application for identity papers will not automatically carry the “father” and “mother” mentions. The applicant will now have “a check box to specify whether it is the father or mother,” said Schiappa, at a ceremony in Paris to celebrate 20 years of the Flag Association, which federates the police officers and LGBT gendarmes.
“This will indicate, when it is the case, that you have two moms or two dads, or that you are two moms and two dads,” continued the minister, ensuring that “allow all the Families to be considered a priority of the government “. The update of these forms must take effect in March 2022, she announced.
A handful of cities had already changed their forms
“We welcome this decision for a long time,” responded to the AFP the president of the Association of homoparental families (ADFH), Alexandre Urwicz. “We are simply regretting that this change intervenes in 2022 and it took eight years to update forms”, because homoparetal adoption is possible since the Marriage Act for all in 2013, “he recalls.
According to the ADFH, only a handful of cities like Paris, Strasbourg, Saint-Etienne or Villeurbanne had so far modified their application card application forms to make them inclusive.
The Ministry of the Interior had “not adapting its administrative forms”, which obliged “to scratch mentions father or mother,” says Urwicz. “It was violent not being able to integrate his own family,” he says “it is not the citizen to adapt to the administration to try to return to boxes, it is to the public service of adapt. “
The solution for new forms “is the right one to really include everyone,” he said. “We did not want Parent 1 mentions and parent 2, which symbolically removed their parents with other children.”