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    mattadvertising Posts: 1, Reputation: 1
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    Sep 15, 2008, 08:01 AM
    French ancestral visa/passport
    I currently live in South Africa with a SA passport. My grandfarther was born in France and I wanted to know if I would be able to apply for a French passport through my grandad?
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    Sep 15, 2008, 09:31 AM
    Maybe or maybe not... if your father never lived in France, citizenship will not be inherited to his children. Contact the nearest embassy or consult French immigration lawyer.
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    Sep 20, 2008, 07:49 AM

    There is a 50 year rule that the French law has for "loss by disuse" - see details at:

    Conditions for the obtention of the french nationality — EuskoSare
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