Germinal Peiro is working very hard to disenclave the Dordogne Valley. He still hasn’t given up on the Déviation de Beynac.
Are you sure that you will be able to retire to France in 6 years time. Brits votedv away their residency rights in the EU andn left at the beginning of 2020. Only those who are resident at the end of the transition period will be able to live here. You will however be able to visit for 3 months visa free or 6 months with a visa and appropiate health in surance,
Of course people will still ne able to move here! They did before the EU was even established and they will do so again. There are two big issues tho’
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For working people the freedom to move to Europe, and then pick up work without a visa has gone. So you will have to apply for working visas
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For retired people you will need to meet a financial threshold that may be higher than at present, and it is possible/probable/likely (no one knows for sure yet) that the UK will no longer support the S1 system, so you will have to pay for all your health care. You also risk not get annual increases in state pension, but again no one knows for sure yet.
France has quite a lot of immigration of third country nationals, and the British will just have to accept that that’s what they are. And join the queue with Africans, Asians and Middle East nationals ( and all sorts of others) that the Brexiteers want to keep out of the UK - ironic or what?!
France does not at present allow retired people from non EU to obtain resident visas. There are work visas for specific skills and company sponsorship and High Net Worth Visas where you have to invest 10 million Euros in FRANCE. These wil be the only way you can come to France along with the 3 month and 6 month visas. Since Britain is unlikely to encourage French retirees after this year I think the French will not encourage Brits
Looks like a scam to me. ? Very dodgy!
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Why do you think its a Scam Britain has similar schemes in place for Third Country migrants. Hence the buying of multi million pound properties in London. There are cheaper places in Europe for instance Portugal requires 300,000 euros and around 30,000 a year for golden visas.
Surely that’s not right - or am I misunderstanding something?
Admittedly Covid has screwed things up a bit but (one hopes) that situation will not prevail in the long term.
Yes it does.
Si vous êtes étranger et que vous souhaitez venir en France pour une durée supérieure à 3 mois, vous devez détenir un visa de long séjour valant titre de séjour (VL-TS) mention visiteur.
Vous êtes concerné si vous êtes étranger (sauf européen ou algérien).
Vous devez :
vous engager à ne pas travailler en France,
et disposer de ressources suffisantes pour vivre pendant toute la durée de votre séjour.
Le montant minimal des ressources exigé pour une personne seule est de 1 219 € nets mensuels, sur une année.
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That is a long stay visitor visa for a specific amount of time usually only granted for 1 year. You will be asked to reapply annually it is not a long term retirement right of residence. In addition to monthly expenditure you must show full health insurance £400+ a month with no pre existing conditions and not including dental or optical and an address. This is life after BREXIT and I am not sure why you seem to be against accepting that reality. f you are rich you can live anywhere you like .if you are not working and middle income or poor countries all over do not want you.
Hi Pete, The Local seems to think it will be perfectly possible to retire to France but with just a few extra processes, the same as other third country nationals such as Americans, Australians etc.
Here’s a link to their article:
https://www.thelocal.fr/20200720/will-british-people-still-be-able-to-retire-to-france-after-brexit
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And during that year you can apply for residency.
Of course I accept the reality of Brexit, but it is wrong to say things will be impossible. More complicated and more expensive sure, but possible.
And even with freedom of movement there were thresholds etc to stop low income and unemployed people becoming resident, it was merely that because France didn’t require people to register they could live under the radar. Now they can’t. No different.
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Like I said above and to quote the article in The Local you mention.
’ while it is true that plenty of Americans, Australians and other third country nationals do retire to France, they tend to be people who are quite well off’.
the thresholds are far higher and the health costs can be astronomical once you are over 70 the monthly premiums if you have any type of pre condition will be £800+. Retiring in the current sense will be impossible but if you have the money then as i said you can buy your way in. In 6 years time when fortress Britain is fully ‘free’ it’s draconian immigration rules will be applied reciprocally.
Yes, “quite well off” but not multi-millionaires. If you can demonstrate an income of €1200 per person per month and can afford the health care costs then of course it will be possible.
Will it not be possible to buy in to the French health care system by paying cotisations as people do now? If so that will only require the purchase of a top-up policy which is not going to be £800+ per month each.
It’s not about buying your way in it’s about demonstrating that you can support yourself and won’t be a burden to the state.
As Jane has already said, people retired to France before the EU existed and they will retire to France after Brexit.
Izzy x
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As I understand it, you get a one year visitor visa and then once here apply for residency. And once you have been here for 3 months as resident you can join PUMA and pay standard cotisation. That’s what Americans do, and they are not all wealthy.
I really don’t imagine France will go to the trouble of treating British immigrants any differently from other 3rd country nationals. Comparatively there are not that many of them, even if many British seem to think they are special
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Thanks Jane. I have a tentative plan to return to France when I retire but that is 15 or so years away. I’m hoping it will all be a lot clearer by then!!
Izzy x
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Maybe we’ll even be back in the EU!
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Wouldn’t that be lovely? We can only hope.
Izzy x
Been to all those places but since living in the woods near Frejus and returning with friends we noticed the standard of tourists had gone down. Lots of badly dressed and noisy Russians everywhere.
No way am I a snob but standards are important. I remember the market years ago which was lovely.
I’m pleased you like living there though as I do in Frejus. Martin
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I don’t live in St Tropez now, but still have a family base there.