I have recently had the pleasure of speaking with an extremely disagreeable French civil servant (fonctionaire d’état), because I had the cheek to ask if I could apply for French citizenship and still retain my American (US) citizenship. He informed me that because the United States so unreasonable (he paused, and continued) on this subject, France responded in kind. I went on to explain that my children all had dual citizenship with passports from both countries (My wife is French and our family has lived for prolonged periods in both countries, though we no reside in France). He went on to explain that our children would benefit from this Dual nationality until the age of 18 when they would have to choose to which country they would owe their allegiance. I then made the mistake of asking what would happen if at 18 they did not make that choice just kept on using their 2 passports. To which he curtly replied “the French Government would revoke their passports. Now I lived in France for some time now and this country doesn’t seem to me to be that vindictive. Could this gentleman be right, or as I suspect, just had a bad day and did not wish to respond by phone?
Could somebody please tell me where I could find the text on dual nationality between the United States and France?
