CdS Application - Can't Choose my Nationality

Visa Requirements
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Hello everyone,

Thanks again for the helpful info on the CdS application - @George1 the PDF step-by-step has been super helpful, thank you again.

I have started uploading documents and will be off to Intermarche this weekend to get my passport photo taken. I still have about six weeks left in my three months so feel I’m on track and hopefully complete the application next week!

My query is on some of the very first questions, when it asks for my nationality the dropdown box ONLY has European nationalities (I have UK/NZ citizenship).

I am wondering if it is a website glitch or user error - for the moment I’ve put my husband European nationality but that’s obviously not very satisfactory!

I have taken the step-by-step selecting that I am the spouse of an EU citizen (I have done this twice to be sure and am pretty sure I have not made an error).

Has anyone encountered this or has any advice on what to do?

Thanks in advance for any answers, very grateful for this forum.

Eve
CdS Nationality

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If you have dual nationality, do you have a British passport? If so choose British

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Hi Mark. I do have a Bristish passport but British isn’t an option unfortunately. It’s only giving EU nationality options. Eve

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What does the asterisk send you to? Is there a drop-down box with information?

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The drop down box has EU nationalities only :slight_smile:

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Then there must be a question at the start for choosing a non-EU set of questions, I mean EU people don’t need a CdS so there’s something weird about the form itself. Ring the sous-pref if need be.

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No “Royaume Uni” option on the website?

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Asterisks on web forms usually just mean “this question is compulsory”!

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Are you sure you started off in the right place? It sounds to me like (it thinks) you are asking for a CdS as an EU citizen, not as a spouse of one.

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Not in this section! :slight_smile:

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I tend to agree so I started again from scratch - this is the selection I made:

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This is the selection I made:

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I am afraid my French might not be good enough yet to properly explain this over the phone! :slight_smile:

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We don’t see the question in your first post, is it possible that they’re asking for the nationality of your spouse?

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It does seem like that would be the case doesn’t it - but I don’t think so - purely because it is the very first section: here’s the complete:

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just realised I have switched around my first and last name, off to a good start :joy:

This is the very first question section…

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You’ve entered ‘Latvian’ as your nationality, so you are being taken to the EU citizen part of the application procedure…

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Nope :slight_smile: If you read my post - I’ve put Latvian in because there were no non-EU options - it’s my husband’s nationality - but I’ve checked and the form doesn’t change.

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What if you click on the blue link under the box that says ‘ajouter une autre nationalité’?

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Possible option 1. Approach your local France Services for an appointment, during which they could call ANEF and ask what you should do if the fields on the form really are only offering you EU options. It might (possibly) also be a one day IT glitch that cures itself.

Possible option 2… If this isn’t cleared up by the IT system/France Services, and assuming there is a free form (“any other info you wish to give us”) field at the end of the online form, explain clearly in it what the problem is, and why you’ve put Latvian, whereas they’ll see from your passport copy you are clearly a Brit/Kiwi etc.

The above assumes (perhaps wrongly) you don’t have the level of French and/or inclination to do battle yourself on the phone…

Do let us know what happens…

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You can’t just put your husband’s nationality as yours, that will be counted as duplicitous foreign dodginess. Talk to them!