Re-entering France with an American passport
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- Aparna Patel
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- 1 Aug, 2023
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If your son is a French citizen, he can enter and remain in France, period. All he needs is proof of it.
Since he is a French national by virtue of you being French, all it takes is:
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Your French passport;
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His US passport;
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Proof that he applied for a certificate of French citizenship;
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His birth certificate
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(recommended for the UK) A printout of the French nationality law section stating he is French.
When entering the UK and France, he should present these documents to facilitate passport control (if going to the UK by air, you should join the UK/EU queue at the British as well as the French airport).
That said, unless you actually want to visit the UK, don’t bother channel-hopping. Like I said, your son can remain in the Schengen Area – and if he couldn’t, then channel-hopping would not help, as “pure” US citizens can only stay for 90 days in a 180-day period.
As soon as he gets his certificate, he can get an ID card or passport
(TIP: a French ID card, which is free, is good as a standalone document for travel – including immigration control – in virtually all of Europe, Turkey, Georgia, parts of North Africa and much of the Eastern Caribbean. Combined with a US passport, it’s unlikely to be worth the €86 for your son to get a French passport as well)
Credit:stackoverflow.com‘
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