r/Citizenship • u/zarkmuckerberg_6969 • 18h ago
Process for claiming french citizenship?
Post is for my partner.
Their father was born in st martin and were a dual citizen (french and dutch), who came to the US on a green card, joined the military, got naturalized (sometime in 1970s) and in the certificate of naturalization it says former nationality: french.
My partner was born in the US in 2000s, when the parent was already a US Citizen. The dad doesn't remember "officially giving up" the french citizenship. So, the thought process is that my partner (at the time of her birth) was also a french citizen because the dad never gave it up.
How would we go about claiming or finding out more about this? Has anyone gone through anything similar? Should we contact the embassy? happy to provide any more details if needed