Collect real first-person naturalisation-par-décret timelines reported online between January 2024 and October 2026 — one row per person with prefecture, route, submission / interview / decision dates, total months, outcome, any mention of the 2026 B2 or civic-exam rules, and the source — keep only rows with a submission date plus a later date, sort by total months, and summarise median and range overall and for Hauts-de-Seine and Paris.
The table below covers 20 deduplicated personal accounts, each with a dated submission and a later interview or final-decision date, gathered from Reddit threads, Services Publics+ complaints, The Local France articles and expat blogs posted or published between January 2024 and October 2026. Fourteen accounts carry a final decision date precise enough for duration statistics; six are still waiting or lack an exact decision date. The reporting window applies to when the account was posted online, so older application histories recounted in that window are included.
These are self-reported stories and quoted applicants, biased toward people frustrated enough to post. Subgroup samples are tiny — one finished Hauts-de-Seine case and three Paris cases — so none of these medians estimates prefecture-wide performance. Duration statistics exclude still-waiting cases and refusals without an exact-enough decision date; year-only dates are coarse and marked approximate (~).
| Account | Prefecture / department | Route | Submitted | Interview | Decision | Months: submission → decree/final decision | Outcome | 2026 rules | Reported | Source |
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Method: 20 deduplicated first-person accounts of naturalisation par décret with a dated submission and a later interview or decision date, posted online Jan 2024–Oct 2026, drawn from Reddit, Services Publics+ (plus.transformation.gouv.fr), The Local France and expat/personal blogs; no qualifying dated first-person rows were found on France Accueil or Doctissimo. Months measure submission to decree or final decision; month-only dates use stated months, year-only dates are approximate (~); still-waiting cases are excluded from duration statistics. Audit of 21 candidate rows found 8 hostname variants and no single URL behind more than 4 rows; two Services Publics+ accounts with month-precision report dates were added back. Three candidate rows whose only later events were generic status milestones were cut.