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21-14
Procedure & document list in French per the Los Angeles Consulate as provided on
8/30/21:
Pour demander la nationalité française au titre de l’article 21-14 du code civil suite à perte par
désuétude, si vous résidez dans notre zone de compétence
(https://losangeles.consulfrance.org/zone-de-competence-du-consulat-general-de-france-a-los-
angeles-en-matiere-d-3519) , nous vous invitons à nous envoyer par voie postale un dossier
comprenant :
Pour justifier de la poursuites des liens manifestes avec la France, vous pouvez joindre par
exemple des attestations de scolarité indiquant le suivi de cours de français, des justificatifs de
participation à des associations françaises, des attestations des membres de votre famille
française indiquant les contacts conservés, des justificatifs de paiement d’impôts en France,
tout document montrant que vous avez gardé des liens avec la France.
To apply for French nationality under Article 21-14 of the Civil Code following loss through
disuse, if you reside in our area of competence, we invite you to send us by post a file including:
1. The full original copy of the declarant's birth certificate, if applicable duly legalized (apostilled)
and translated by a certified translator;
2. a copy of an official identity document, as well as a recent identity photograph;
3. Civil status documents proving that he has a French parent likely to have transmitted his
nationality to him by descent; This proof is provided by the production of a certificate of French
nationality in the name of the declarant's parent, of the court decision recognizing the latter as
French, of an amplification of the decree of naturalization or reinstatement of French nationality,
or a declaration of French nationality. It is also demonstrated by the production of civil status
documents, when these clearly establish the origin of the nationality (by a mention or indication
establishing the nationality or by double right of the soil. The latter is demonstrated by the
production of a full copy of the birth certificate of the parent of the declarant born in France, the
birth certificate of each of his own parents born in France and proof of filiation);
4. The judgment stating that he has lost French nationality pursuant to Article 23-6 of the Civil
Code or the judicial or administrative decision opposing him the provisions of Article 30-3 of the
Civil Code;
5. All public or private documents capable of providing proof that he has retained or acquired
clear links with France, in particular of a cultural, professional, economic or family nature;
or
All documents capable of establishing that he has actually performed, or that his deceased
spouse had performed, military services in a unit of the French army or fought in the French or
allied armies in time of war;
6. Unless the declarant is a minor, an extract from the criminal record of the country or
countries in which he has resided during the past ten years, or, when he is unable to produce
these documents, of the country for which he is responsible. Nationality ;
7. Where applicable, the full copy, duly legalized and translated if necessary, of the birth
certificates of his foreign minor children who habitually reside with him (or alternatively in the
case of separation or divorce), the acts of the 'civil status or court decisions establishing the
filiation of the children in his regard, as well as the documents likely to establish this residence
To justify the prosecution of obvious links with France, you can attach, for example, certificates
of education indicating the follow-up of French courses, proof of participation in French
associations, certificates of members of your French family indicating the contacts kept. , proof
of payment of taxes in France, any document showing that you have kept links with France.