re: #208 Blind Frog Belly White

This is a very good point. Imagine the alienation of, for example, a young person born in France whose GRANDparents came from Algeria. You’ve lived your entire life in France. You might only speak French. It’s the only country you really know.

But you’re not REALLY French.

Not really how it works.

Birth in France[edit]
Children born in France (including overseas territories) to at least one parent who is also born in France automatically acquire French citizenship at birth (double jus soli).
A child born in France to foreign parents may acquire French citizenship:[3]
at birth, if stateless.
at 18, if resident in France with at least 5 years’ residence since age 11.
between 16 and 18 upon request by the child and if resident in France with at least 5 years’ residence since age 11.
between 13 and 16 upon request by the child’s parents and if resident in France continuously since age 8.
if born in France of parents born before independence in a colony/territory in the past under French sovereignty.
at birth, if born in France before January 1, 1994.
at age 18, if born in France on or after January 1, 1994.
A child who was born abroad and who has only one French parent can repudiate his French nationality during the six months prior to his or her reaching the age of majority, or in the year which follows it (article 19-4 of the Civil Code).