This puts me in a unusual situation of having a French port without being a citizen (yet).

If you hold a French port, you are a French citizen. Therefore your young children are entitled to a French port if you apply for recognition of French citizenship on their behalf.

 

Basically, to get a French port for your French kids, you go through more or less the same process you went through to get your port. (And yes, you ARE French if they gave you a French port.)

Since you got your French port, I assume you used your French birth certificate (or rather, your "extrait de naissance") from . For your kids, the first question is whether or not you ed them when they were born. And doing that may require that you transcribe your marriage (if it wasn't done in ) so that you get a livret de famille (and have your marriage recorded in your French birth record and livret de famille). If that's already done, then you just have to get current copies of your kids' French birth certificates and apply for their ports through the French Embassy nearest where you live.

This is the website for the Washington DC embassy/consulate (which is where many istrative functions are processed) and the page that explains the processes you're most interested in:

https://washington.consul.org/-eport-et-carte-nationale-d-identite-

If you don't have some of the documents they require for the ports, your nearest French embassy for information about how to your kids as French nationals.

 

Thank you both for your responses. Both my kids were born in the US, they are not ed. I have a very old liver de famille with a few generations back that is not updated. I am divorced now though. I'm hoping since I have French birth as my father and fathers father (I have all their birth certificates) that I can get them ports.

 

Your kids are going to have to be added to your French birth certificate. Both your marriage and your divorce will also have to be ed on your French birth certificate. You'll have to do this through the French embassy/consulate in the US and it will likely take some time. Basically, you'll need to get them CNFs and with that, they can get French birth certificates (maintained at the registry in Nantes) - but it's a long process involving lots of documents. (Including, I suspect, a copy of your ex's birth certificate for each child.)

 

I think I will need an attorney for that level of paperwork.

 

Wow, marriages and divorces have to be ed on your French birth certificate - Why? A birth certificate is just that, a certificate of your birth, not a record of your life's events.
What a lot of bureaucracy ....... must take up hours of one's time if married and divorced more than once and more than one child......

 

A birth certificate is just that, a certificate of your birth, not a record of your life's events.

That's not how the French see things. And actually, a "birth certificate" in documents all sorts of things, and it does serve as a central identity document. The system in is set up so that major life events are routinely updated on one's birth record. It's only when these things happen outside of that you have to get the consulate involved, and then it can take some time.