French Cafe » french citizenship http://www.ot-maurice.com Your Connection To Everything French Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:47:47 +0000 en hourly 1 Does earning a graduate degree reduce naturalization requirement to 2 years in France? http://www.ot-maurice.com/does-earning-a-graduate-degree-reduce-naturalization-requirement-to-2-years-in-france/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/does-earning-a-graduate-degree-reduce-naturalization-requirement-to-2-years-in-france/#comments Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:01:15 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/does-earning-a-graduate-degree-reduce-naturalization-requirement-to-2-years-in-france/ It normally takes 5 years to naturalize in France to apply for French citizenship. However, there is an exception: if one graduates from a university or grand e’cole it is reduced to two years.

Does this apply to individuals who earn a graduate degree, such as a master’s degree? Or just an undergraduate degree?

Cited sources would help.

Thanks!

]]> http://www.ot-maurice.com/does-earning-a-graduate-degree-reduce-naturalization-requirement-to-2-years-in-france/feed/ 1 If my grandmother was a french citizen can I (being canadian) still claim french citizenship? http://www.ot-maurice.com/if-my-grandmother-was-a-french-citizen-can-i-being-canadian-still-claim-french-citizenship/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/if-my-grandmother-was-a-french-citizen-can-i-being-canadian-still-claim-french-citizenship/#comments Tue, 07 Dec 2010 12:58:45 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/if-my-grandmother-was-a-french-citizen-can-i-being-canadian-still-claim-french-citizenship/ Alright, so my paternal grandmother was a french citizen, but she later moved to Peru, and then again to Canada. I am a Canadian citizen, but I was wondering if I had any chance in trying to gain a french dual citizenship via my grandmother.

]]> http://www.ot-maurice.com/if-my-grandmother-was-a-french-citizen-can-i-being-canadian-still-claim-french-citizenship/feed/ 4 FRANCE: Sarkozy looks to strip citizenship from those who threaten police http://www.ot-maurice.com/france-sarkozy-looks-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-who-threaten-police/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/france-sarkozy-looks-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-who-threaten-police/#comments Fri, 30 Jul 2010 17:19:47 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/france-sarkozy-looks-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-who-threaten-police/ President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Friday that he would look into stripping French citizenship from anyone of foreign origin who “threatened the life of a police officer” following a spate of riots around Grenoble earlier this month.
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]]> http://www.ot-maurice.com/france-sarkozy-looks-to-strip-citizenship-from-those-who-threaten-police/feed/ 0 How do I go about obtaining French citizenship? http://www.ot-maurice.com/how-do-i-go-about-obtaining-french-citizenship/ http://www.ot-maurice.com/how-do-i-go-about-obtaining-french-citizenship/#comments Thu, 03 Jun 2010 08:11:04 +0000 admin http://www.ot-maurice.com/how-do-i-go-about-obtaining-french-citizenship/ Ok, so here’s how it goes. I can be certain that my maternal grand-father was a French citizenship. I was not born in France (or, a DOM), and my mother does not hold her French citizenship, but we both speak french fluently and can trace our lineages back to other family residing in Nice and Aix-en-Provence. So, do I have any way of claiming french citizenship at all? Or do I have to go through the process of naturalization?

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