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I had the same situation, somewhat. My father is from Itlay, and I was born in Italy, while my mother is American. If one of your parents is a citizen of France (They must still have their citizenship for it to work) then you have the right to French Citizenship, all you really need is your French/EU passport.
The embassy will tell you to contact the nearest French Consulate to you. Trust me on this when I say it can be frustrating to work with the consulates! But they will require things like your birth certificate, your father's birth certificate or French Passport, and some passport photos of you. You will have to fill out some forms when you get there. The fee for the passport was $110
It took me about 3 weeks to recieve my Italian/EU passport..but there are so many advantages as you can travel/live/work throughout western Europe without any restrictions or Visas. I'll be moving back to Europe in a week!
wow was able to get through to the French Consulate in DC and she said it is not automatic citizenship even when your parent is a born and raised frenchman and who he himself is still a citizen of France..LOL.. I actually have to apply through the consulate in S.F.
Now my mom needs the info since she also was under the assumption that being married to a frenchman gave her citizenship...
How hard is it to get Canadien citizenship? My grandparents on my mothers side were born and raised in Quebec.
Half my family (on father's side still live in France, Paris and elsewhere plus my tante et oncle live in Switzerland) and the other half live in Quebec and Montreal.
Dang somewhere in there I should be eligible for citizenship.???
I have lots of experience in this matter - with France!
My father was French. So way back in the 80's I applied from my French Nationality (He was still alive at the time). It took me about two years - a lot of paperwork was necessary. We had to trace is birth certificate and those of his parents (my Dad was born in 1907, so you can imagine!). Also had to translate my parents marriage certificate and my birth certificate all by a French State appointed translator (not just any simple service!).
Anyway, in the end as I said, I did get the French Nationality. I have the Passport, the National ID card, and I even lived in France and worked there.
Now, I am married to an American, and we wanted to get him the French Passport. I will not go thru it all, but we decided against it, because I was told that I had to have a NEW nationality document (which meant I would have to get all new copies of all the documents from before.....).
Better to vacation there, go to the doctor ($30) and eat the cheese and drink the wine!
Come to find out when I was 12 and brother was 13 my parents had actually gone to the consulat in SF and registered me and him as french citizens.
He has all the paperwork still. He said that they should be able to pull us up in the system (but this was prior to computers so who knows but all the matters is that my father still has all the actual documents so we are doing OK!!! :-)
And cornerguy... yeah I still have alot of family in Quebec and Montreal (from my mothers side. (Notre Dame de Stanbridge area)
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