After more than 11 months since filing our applications for French citizenship, three envelopes from the French Interior Ministry showed up in our mailbox this past Monday, November 2nd. As I grabbed them, I honestly steeled myself for a negative response. Instead, I read only the first line of my letter: J'ai le plaisir de vous faire savoir que vous êtes Française depuis le 22 octobre 2009, and despite thick stone walls and very poor acoustics, Mr Mo heard my whoops and hollers. (He figured out what was causing such unusual behavior even before I ran upstairs with our letters in hand.)
We apparently had been French citizens for 10 days without even knowing it.
