If they are aged between eighteen and twenty-one, or if they come under the provisions of article L. 421-35, or if they are dependent on their parents, the foreign child of a French national will be issued with a ten-year residence permit subject to production of the long-stay visa provided for in 1° of article L. 411-1 and legal residence.
For the application of the first paragraph, parentage means legally established parentage, including by virtue of an adoption decision, subject to verification by the public prosecutor’s office of the legality of this decision when it was pronounced abroad.