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by Muscat » Fri Nov 26, 2021 6:17 am
In regard to the comments about the ease of obtaining a French passport or CNF (certificate of French Nationality)…
it is certainly easy to register the child of a French citizen when they are minors. Unfortunately for us we did not do this (my husband, who died recently, was a French citizen from birth) and by the time of the Brexit referendum our daughters were in their 20s. We have had to produce mountains of evidence going back as far as the marriage of their French great-grandparents, and proof that my French mother-in-law, and my husband, never acquired British nationality (however my husband was born a dual French/British national as his Jewish father was naturalised British after having been evacuated from Prague just before WWII). We are 5 years on, and still no CNF.
My experience is that anything outside the norm with the French authorities is extremely slow and tedious and processed by rude, lazy civil ‘servants’. I have permanent residency here in France (after something of a battle, and helped by the IOM) but I’m thoroughly sick of the bureaucracy here, and so I’m starting to move my life back to the uk, now that I am alone.
To me, the FBR route as an adult is significantly quicker, cheaper and less frustrating than my daughters’ struggle to acquire proof of their French nationality.