General Article France juggles migration hot potato

Topic Selected: Expat or Immigrant? Book Volume: 429

One correspondent’s quest to procure French nationality and the maroon and gold passport that proclaims one a citizen of Europe.

By Alistair Lyon

It requires stamina and determination to become French.

It took me three years to thread my way through a bureaucratic labyrinth from which I emerged late last year clutching a shiny maroon and gold passport that proclaims my citizenship of the European Union as well as France.

I had given no thought to acquiring a new nationality when my wife and I...

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