How To Prep For The French Citizenship Interview
From someone who botched theirs.
I promise that I’m going to tell you all about how hard I botched my French citizenship interview, because boy, did I ever botch it. The story is long, painful, and confusing, so writing is slow-going. I noticed my brain began to erase all the memories of that one hour interaction as soon as I returned home: the order of questions, the questions themselves; it’s all quite fuzzy now thanks to my subconscious trying to hide the trauma from my conscious mind. So yeah, taking a while to dig everything back up, write it down, and make it entertaining for y’all.
Until then, just know that the interview went worse than I’d ever imagined it could. The only way I can describe it is: bloodbath. This, even though I prepped, studied, researched, and felt reasonably confident going into it,…
