Interesting!
You have to go to your Europe Advice first and they will tell you if you have a case and the correct EU regulation which applies.
I then wrote detailing my case and the advice I had received and when I had a reply refusing to accept that, you can then go to SOLVIT.
Actually I'm going to reply to myself here because I got it back to front:
solvit only deal with problems that aren't with your own country - at least that is what I'm reading from the website. So if I had a problem with France I could go to Solvit but not if I have a problem with the UK?
Mary,
Did you get in touch with a specific minister or MP as well - or is it something I found and then lost the link for?
Also with Solvit they don't look at problems with your adopted country, do they - it's only your home country?
Blast I do wish I could remember the name of the politician I saw the other day who gets involved in stuff like this!!!!
No, we are registered to vote at our last address in UK, which means that we can vote in General Elections and European Elections as long as we don’t use our European vote here in France.
We will also be able to vote in any forthcoming referendum on EU Membership.
We vote in our Commune Mayoral and Council elections in our commune in France.
I do believe that if you have a problem with officialdom because you are not a French national, your British MEP will be if more use to you than a French one.
Of course, your UK MEP in your old constituency will help you with that as long as you have not been out of the UK for more than fifteen hears and are entitled to vote.
Does that mean, Jane that you still have a residential address in the UK (Because of the MEP thing?)
I went to Your Europe Advice when I was refused access to UK Health care for a treatment that I could not find in France.
They provided me with the necessary advice regarding the European Regulations, but because I was refused on the grounds that I was a British retiree living in France, I took the problem upwards to the DoH in London and the Commission in Brussels.
Any decisions made by SOLVIT are personal to the complainant, so each person needs to make the same complaint for the same problem.
If you have a British MEP, she/he may well take up this problem on your and our behalf, as did mine.
My friend has just been told by the Births and Deaths office in the UK, that to register her French newborn she has to provide translated copies of the French birth certificate and marriage certificate. Seems like they are all at it.
Excellent Tracy, could be what we are all looking for.