Multiple Citizenship

the multiple citizenships of my family has been a problem that calls us back to embassies time and time again


lets start simple then go on

dad: born in virginia and only has american citizenship
his family moved to the united states ages ago and he has no contact or awareness of relatives overseas.. very simple, no?

gabriel: born in montreal (this was the year my dad took off from work) . he has canadian citizenship by birth (also the fact that my mother is canadian). when he was born my mother was married to my american dad and so they immediately went to the american embassy there and filed a report of a "birth abroad." they basically had no trouble and was sent an american passport for baby gabe, it also helped that they moved to anchorage the next year

jean-todd (todd): born in anchorage, alaska. 1. the canadian embassy of anchorage doesn't do shit 2. it wasn't even opened until 2004. my parents had to go to the consulate of seattle. i guess things went relatively smooth there, until we received a letter from the state department asking why "this person" (aka baby todd) would want to acquire a canadian citizenship and asked if he knew that he would have to renounce his american citizenship in order to become a citizen of another country. my parents were so confused and went all the way from anchorage back to seattle again. apparently there was a mixup or something, the u.s. people in charge of that didn't know he was an infant with a canadian mother

me: same as todd, born in anchorage and had to get canadian citizenship from seattle consulate except i didn't have any problems

here's where things get slightly confusing

mama: born in montreal to a french canadian (technically just canadian) dad and an actually french mother. so she is considered french and canadian and has citizenship of both countries. and she lived in france from age 17 to 23 (atleast five years etc.) but since she went to a french university that was reduced by two years

since gabriel was born in canada and its very common to have french citizenship, he easily became a french citizen at five. todd & i are much much older than age five
and because we were born in america, we are having alot of trouble getting a french citizenship as well. and i think we might have had to live there (france) during some period..

long story short we're having some trouble