Lawyer for Nationality Challenges in Paris

Some individuals meet the requirements to obtain French nationality, which is sometimes denied to them.

In such cases, it is necessary to summon the Public Prosecutor before the High Court (Tribunal de Grande Instance) to challenge the decision.

Indeed, particularly for French citizens by birth, born in former colonies or whose parents were born in former colonies, the right to filiation is not lost.

For example, regarding Algeria when it became French, it is important to distinguish:

• Citizens under common law status who automatically retain French nationality through filiation, which is not lost.
• Citizens under local law status who lost French nationality at the time of Algeria’s independence, if they (or their parent) did not submit a declaration of recognition of French nationality within the prescribed deadlines.

Very often, it will be necessary to demonstrate the filiation link with the person on whom the applicant relies to claim French nationality.

In other cases, it will be important to show that if French nationality were refused, the individual would become stateless.

Maître Mayer practices in all courts in Île-de-France, such as Nanterre, Créteil, Bobigny, Meaux, Melun, Fontainebleau, Évry, Sens, Auxerre, and throughout France with a local representative.