Hi,
Is there a member who has knowledge of our particular situation who could give advice, please.
I am English and my wife is a French citizen. We live in the UK 6 months and in the Aveyron at her house for 6 months. Legally we are resident in the UK. I applied and got a CdS for 2 years and this was renewed this year although I do not have the card yet. While trying to contact Rodez I came across an article on the government website (Carte de séjour en tant que membre de famille d’un Européen) that seems to imply that as a husband of a European I am entitled to a free Carte for five years. I know that there are various versions of the Carte and we have been trying to get an answer to this for several years. The prefecture are not at all helpful.
Many thanks for your advice.
Martyn
You say you are legally resident in the UK. So you are not eligible for anything other than a short term carte de séjour. Longer ones require you to become a fiscal resident here, have full health cover and change the registration on your car among other things.
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Many thanks for your reply, Jane.
Yes, that is what we came to assume but the French government article does not make that clear, as far as I can see. It just refers to a husband of a European ( French citizen) which I am. My wife lives in the UK but only has indefinite leave so her citizenship is French with a confirmed right of residence in the UK.
Apart from the financial gain it would also mean the end of the two year hassle.
Thank you again for taking the trouble to reply.
Best wishes
Martyn
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You are bound by French immigration law in this case. Although France is EU, EU FOM would not apply because France is her native country. If you both wanted to emigrate to an EU country, other than France, EU FOM would apply and then you would be treated as a spouse of EU citizen.
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Although totally logical viewed through the prism of Freedom of Movement regulations, it’s always struck me as slightly perverse, and even counter-intuitive that the spouse of (say) a French national moving to France is subject to more burdensome (French) visa requirements, than the spouses of (for example) Bulgarian or Belgian nationals moving to France. I do accept that the EU is not in the business of protecting nationals from a (mild in this case) form of discrimination by their own governments!
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Martyn
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Sorry Billy,
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Martyn
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