Originally Posted by
Metalligal
Thanks for your concern about my friend's mental status and getting into France, she is not completely cognitively impaired, only the beginning for a 63 yr old. . She will be traveling with two family members with dual US/French citizenship. The friend in addition to her US passport & SS card, has a French social security card, expired French passport ( we've started the renewal ) & French ID card. Just posted in case someone has flown from the US to France and wanted to know their experience.
Thanks for sharing your relatives experience so far.
If your friend is a US-French dual-citizen with an expired French passport seeking admission into France as a French citizen without a currently valid French passport -- and that is what it sounds like she may be -- then that is its own thing. French citizens are always admissible into France upon confirmation of French citizenship and identity. French passport control should be able to use an expired French passport and a French national ID to validate a person's French citizenship and identity .... at least if the US passport is with all the same biodata info as is in the expired French passport. If there is a name discrepancy in parts and the last French passport was not a French biometric epassport, then having a documented record trail for the name change(s) could be useful.
About the Covid-19 test that my relative took for a US-France work trip yesterday -- with arrival at CDG earlier today -- while in possession of a French government invitation/letter applicable for the trip, no one -- neither the airline, nor the German authorities nor the French authorities -- asked for the US-taken Covid-19 test to be presented for this visit. The relative flew LH F and is now in the Paris hotel room being isolated for 24 hours while awaiting the results of an administered Covid-19 test in France itself.