If residing in France per the WA treaty, how many cartes/titres de séj. are beneficial ?
I only have one and find it very useful.
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How many WA CdS can one person actually hold?
Same name identity?
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I’m not sure that I understand the question. Do you mean consecutively? Simultaneously?
I don’t think the latter is even possible.
Is the OP American? Asking perhaps in the sense of holding a US green card whereby it is not beneficial to keep renewing due to the cost involved or the limit before you must take up citizenship fully like my family have done. In France you only need the one card, preferably ten years and then renew it when it expires unless you become a national and you don’t require it anymore and get a french ID card instead.
As far as I know you can only have one. When I got my WA card I had to hand back my previous EU card. And when I got nationality I had to hand in the WA card,
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Yes - same name ID, simultaneously, each being issued by the Préf… & I’ve never thought more than one was feasible either.
Reason I’m asking: back around the time pre-Brexit, the advice was to update/renew/re-apply for a CdS as an interim measure before the WA came into being. Shortly after my obtaining the proper 10-year WA titre (interim carte surrendered), the local Préf invited me to arrange an interview for a CdJ. Evidently, a duplication error somehow, which I assumed they will have corrected on my contacting them to flag it.
Some doubt crept in (about maybe there being no error) on (i) receiving a couple of weeks back another invitation to make an appointment to collect a CdSjr and (ii) reading a post here on another thread which seemed to entertain the possibility of having more than one carte (likely an ambiguity in expression).
Slightly odd then, in that five years has not even passed yet, to be issuing cartes without any prompting. Especially given the difficulties others are having renewing theirs …
Sounds like they’re putting the carte before the horse…
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… had a nagging doubt that was the case
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I still have my old EU CdS. There was no request to return it when my permanent WA carte arrived (Caen prefecture).
I had to return mine in the Vienne.
That’s interesting @Badger - I had to hand in mine (St Lo prefecture). Normally they work in tandem with Caen but obviously not always.
After your two comments I had to go & check. Sure enough, it’s still there in a drawer 
When the WA card first came in we were lined up for an rdv at the prefecture to do the exchange, but they must have decided it was simpler/quicker to post them out, with no request to return the old ones.
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I think I had to hand over my old CdS when I went to have my fingerprints taken.
They already had my dabs via the old one, so that could be another reason.