Many thanks, yes I have all the current DS applications.
May I ask what DS means.
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Yes, but that makes it difficult to go to l’accueil to point out any error and request a refund.
Unless of course, you were to wait and use a smartphone to download the email. I don’t use the service so don’t know if it’s instantaneous.
And as someone else has pointed out, all this information storage on servers uses large amounts of energy and generates waste heat.
It’s tricksy but I’m sticking with paper receipts. If I still had my wood burner I could use them as fuel but I put them in the recycling bin. 
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Maybe a bit late for the first few applicants but a heartening hope for future applicants - A Socialist MP is calling for foreign people with multi-year residency cards or 10-year cartes de résident to have these cards renewed automatically, avoiding them being “placed in pointless legal fragility” due to renewal delays.
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Hopefully it will be good news for those with a multi year cds or even a 10 year one, although the 10 year ones are very simple to renew.
It would be unlikely to be available for renewing the 5 year Art50, this is a completely different cds and has completely different rules to the multi year ones.
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If I actually make it to my 10 year renewal I’ll worry about it then, or ignore it and trust to the fact that no-one has ever asked me to show it to them. 
The only time I’ve ever used mine was when booking into an apartment in Barcelona and being asked for ID, I suddenly realised my passport was still in France. Flourished my carte de sejour and all was OK. At that moment, despite Brexit, still felt very European…
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A theme? Very elegantly put.
Here’s a question - I have a RDV at the Préfécture to formally present my dossier for the exchange of the 5yr WA CdS for a 10yr one. As I have recently discovered, my current 5 yr card has two, what may be, faults.
Where the nom de famille correctly states my maiden name, rather the following with my married name, it says “INC”. This rather confused the hospital recently but it was the first time in 5 years.
The other issue is my place of birth, listed as “Montreal (GBR)” 
I was indeed born and registered British but in Montreal, Quebec, still located in Canada (not USA!)
My husband thinks they had to put (GBR) in because of the Warp agreement cover. He’s thinking it may be best not to query and confuse the Préfécture.
Does it really matter?
I’m sure @kim will be able to shed some comforting light on the matter 
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Thank you. I hope so.
I’m not however as worried as my brother would be. He was born in Beirut 
At least La France closed Devil’s Island a while back and can’t send him there.
And he’s a solicitor, so they probably would want to 
Golgafrinchan B Ark material.
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I had a very similar issue recently with a French driving license application, where my birth certificate had a different middle name on it to the one I actually use. Kim and I briefly traded ideas for dealing with this.
Option 1 was to do nothing, and see if they even notice, ie letting sleeping dogs lie etc, but to then risk them spotting it and demanding further evidence (a deed poll change in my example), creating delays in obtaining the licence.
Option 2 was to proactively submit an attestation sur l’honneur with evidence in my case of UK passport and marriage certificate using my current middle name. I went for Option 2 (and got a clear round administratively - no queries).
Why not consider a hybrid option of saying nothing in the RDV, but have an attestation and appropriate justificatifs up your sleeve if queried either in the RDV or thereafter?
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Mainly the sound of people who like the sound of their own voices too much. Sometimes you think there’s going to be a punch up
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Did you log into ANEF using France Connect before creating a simple account ?
Your nationality makes no difference to the application of an Article 50 CdS but yes it should be correct.
When you have your rdv, take a copy of your passport, you have to anyway and a copy of your marriage and birth cert and ask them to update your new 10 year card with the correct birth place and naissance nom and nom d’usage.
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CERT are anal when it comes to names being correct for some reason, and if documents don’t match your birth certs they want to know why.
I find it tends to work better if you give them an explanation first it heads off all the ridiculous following questions.
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