If/when the Art50 renewal goes online on ANEF then yes you will need an ANEF account, however, an ANEF account is not just renewals it’s all administration to do with a CdS, lost, stolen, changed address and much more.
The process isn’t that difficult through the prefecture but ANEF will be even easier.
Well that’s good to hear. Let’s hope it goes live soon. Thanks for your help.
Hi @kim I’ll have to dig out my Facebook login and join your Facebook group. In the meantime, can I share this with you - we have a move coming up, so downloaded your great ‘change of address’ guide.
When I looked on the new prefecture’s website (Alpes Maritime) it directs one to ANEF but also has this-
La re-fabrication de votre titre de séjour n’est pas obligatoire :
Changement d’adresse avec re-fabrication : taxe de 25€
Changement d’adresse sans re-fabrication : gratuit
Have you heard of this or seen it on the ANEF site - some forumites mentioned they paid 25€ for a new card on new address, I didn’t see anything about an option to decline a new card in your guide?
The prefecture site also has -
Attention : Si votre titre de séjour expire dans moins de 3 mois, vous devez solliciter directement le renouvellement de votre titre de séjour.
so as our cards are expiring early next year I am also wondering whether to do both renewal and address change together. have you any thoughts on whether that will be a possibility? Many thanks!
Hi Larkswood, you have 3 months to advise of change of address, so yes you will have to do this on ANEF.
Art 50 holders supposedly don’t get charged for replacement cards, however, most prefectures consider that everyone is charged. So depending on your prefecture will depend on if they charge, there’s no consistency.
Yes you can decline your card but that is generally if you have been given a new address and not moved. Generally you will get a new card if you move.
Also be aware that your current Art50 is registered at your old prefecture so if you renew that’s initially where it will go, which is why you need to update your address before you are eligible to renew your Art50.
Although it says within 3 months to renew, remember the Article 50 CdS is a whole new concept.
You will probably find the 3 month renewal for that is those that can apply on ANEF to renew already.
Many thanks Kim for your thoughts, the plan was always to change the address first, it was just that I saw that wording on the prefecture site.
Advise of change of address on ANEF but click no card, you may or may not be called in to collect one. If not it’s not a problem you’ll get a new updated one when you renew.
But be aware you could be charged if called in.
Hello Kim. I joined the facebook group and I’m glad I did. A lot of useful information on their. Thanks for all you do!
May I ask which prefecture has categorically refused Art50 renewals through them? I live in Haut-Rhin and was wondering if it’s them because they’re not mentioned in guide 7 (Prefectural renewal requirements). I know that you’re still in the process of adding more prefectures to the guide but was just curious.
Further to my email to Vaucluse Prefecture I have received this reply
I will contact them again on October 11, which is exactly 3 months before our WA 5yr CdS expires. Luckily, not planning any travel 
Each prefecture has their own guide, so if there was an instruction on renewing for you that’s the current procedure.
Off the top on my head I can’t remember, I’ve done so many they all blur into one.
There were a few other priorities, such as processing thousands of Ukrainian refugees.
That’s all I have on them, sending a specific email requesting their procedure for renewal of the Article 50 TUE/Article 18(1) CdS.
Keep an eye out for ANEF going live.
They’ve got one and there’s even an Article 50 TUE/Article 18(1) CdS selection, but its not been activated yet.
I post this here rather than start a new and unique thread but something came up yesterday in the hospital check-in with my WA 5yr CdS that is puzzled them and puzzles me.
My CdS has my maiden name followed by
“… ep. INC* “
The hospital registrar couldn’t accept it so I need to use my passport in for ID at check-in.
Does anyone know why this is, or have the same?
I shall be visiting the Prefecture next month to upgrade the CdS to 10yr, so I could maybe clarify or change it.
Here you are….you foreign female!
pour les femmes d’origine étrangère, de faire figurer le nom de leur époux sur les titres de séjour. L’application de gestion des dossiers des ressortissants étrangers en France (AGDREF) utilisée par les services préfectoraux pour enregistrer les demandes de titres de séjour donne la possibilité de fabriquer des titres de séjour sans que soit portée la mention « épouse de », même si, dans le dossier, il est renseigné que cette personne est mariée. Pour cela, l’utilisateur doit enregistrer la mention « INC » dans la rubrique « épouse de ».
So it’s épouse d’inconnu, then ?
Big News for UK Nationals in France!
We’re delighted to share some important news that your RIFT admin team has been advocating for over many months. RIFT Admins have attended meetings with officials in Paris and Brussels on your behalf.
We have just heard from Brussels that from the second half of September it will be possible to request your 10 year Withdrawal Agreement permanent residence document (WARP card) online via the official website:
https://www.demarches-simplifiees.fr/
The French government will be announcing this in the coming days on their central websites:
https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/
Préfectures have also been instructed to update their own sites accordingly.
This should make the process of renewing WARP cards much easier for beneficiaries in France.
For those who would like to see the original French text, here it is:
“Les préfectures ont reçu hier une instruction leur demandant de commencer à déployer la version adaptée du site web https://www.demarches-simplifiees.fr/ spécifiquement à ce contexte du renouvellement des titres de séjour “Accord de retrait” de 5 ans arrivant à expiration. Ce déploiement interviendra donc dès la seconde quinzaine du mois de septembre.
Par ailleurs l’annonce de ce dispositif spécifique sera ajoutée dans les jours qui viennent aux sites gouvernementaux
https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/, https://www.service-public.fr/ et https://brexit.gouv.fr/, et il vient d’être demandé - hier également - à l’ensemble des préfectures de communiquer de la même façon via la mise à jour de leur propre site internet."
It feels great that RIFT’s advocacy work and those meetings and reports were worthwhile!!! Orginally we were advised that a standard system would not be possible until next year! So we got on our keyboards, phones and on planes and we got to work…
Just read the above…
Fantastic, thanks!
Thank you to @JaneJones for explaining my name confusion, and thank you to @Bettina for the exciting update on CdS applications.
I will be putting the new card update system to the test in October! 
What he said!
Thanks Bettina.
So good that a central system which looks as though it will enforce standard criteria across the different départements ? …we can hope, at least 
….will be rolled out.
Do we assume that there will still be a rule in place that applications may still not be submitted before 2 or perhaps 2, - 4, months before expiry of the current card ?
