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France citizenship: required documents

The documents you'll gather for France citizenship by descent, by route and by ancestor. Your exact list is generated from your lineage in the wizard.

Certificat de Nationalité Française (CNF)

Assemble the unbroken filiation chain + possession-d'état evidence and apply for a CNF.

You

  • •Birth certificate

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your qualifying ancestor

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Proof of your ancestor's citizenship
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes
  • •Full Naturalization Packet — if_immigrated

Double droit du sol

For a person born in France to a parent themselves born in France (double jus soli) — document both births.

You

  • •Birth certificate

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your qualifying ancestor

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Proof of your ancestor's citizenship
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Acquisition by declaration

Acquisition of French nationality by declaration (e.g. a maternal-line recovery or liens manifestes).

You

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Déclaration de nationalité

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your qualifying ancestor

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Proof of your ancestor's citizenship
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Judicial recognition (court action)

A court action to recognise nationality through a historically excluded line (e.g. the 1906–1924 maternal window).

You

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Power of attorney for your lawyer
  • •Court petition
  • •Court filing fees
  • •Court judgment

Each ancestor in the chain

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

Your qualifying ancestor

  • •Birth certificate
  • •Proof of your ancestor's citizenship
  • •Marriage certificate — if_married
  • •Adoption certificate / order (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Amended birth certificate (if applicable) — if_adopted
  • •Name connection / spelling-variation proof (if applicable) — if_has_name_changes

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