Sent to my by a mate (in French):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1kwJBLXF_M&feature=youtu.be
you've beaten my record of 4 years trying ......
Flipping brilliant! I lost my carte vitale in 2007… I have spent the last 6 years, on and off, trying to get a replacement. I made a last ditch attempt quite recently actually, and normally I would say ‘watch this space’ but I think ’ don’t hold your breath’ is safer advice…
The story that broke worldwide in December sums up French bureaucracy for you.
INSEE, the national statistics agency sent a letter to somebody who has been dead for nearly two centuries, namely Napoleon Bonaparte.
The letter was sent to 3 Rue Saint Charles in Ajaccio, Corsica, according to the local newspaper Corse Matin.
Boney has been dead since 1821!
If somebody at INSEE will own up not to know who he was, where he came from and that he died 192 then clearly all of you having problems with CVs may just be able to force a smile and hope your responsible bureaucrats do the same as that person - but I doubt any fault will ever be admitted, even in that case.
My partner and I applied for our Cartes Vitales at the same time. We both received repeated requests for our birth certificates, our passports, forms signed by our doctor, and other documents, to which we replied either by post or in person at the CPAM office. They kept losing or mislaying every copy of everything we gave them, constantly claiming they had not received it. In the CPAM office they were very friendly, polite and apologetic, and we later learned that a neighbour had been employed to teach them good manners when dealing with the public. It was the functionaries behind the scenes who seemed totally inefficient. After about nine months we both received paper attestations, in otherwords provisional CVs. After 11 months they asked for my photo, and after a year I received my plastic CV. However, my partner still has only a paper attestation. After nearly a year, he received a letter saying that his (Scottish) birth certificate was unacceptable because they couldn't read it. Edinburgh had sent my partner a photocopy of the original script written in 1953. He paid another £15 and Edinburgh sent a typed version. CPAM rejected it because (a) it wasn't signed, and (b) they couldn't read the embossed stamp from the Scottish Registry Office! We wrote back explaining that they could see the original signature on the copy of the version in script - Registrar E. Cant. They said they wanted Mr Cant to sign it again! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrgh. Probably dead or at least retired by now! We wrote back enclosing a copy of my (English) birth certificate, which was typed, which didn't have a signature on it, and didn't have a particularly legible embossed seal, and explained that that had been good enough for my CV so why wasn't my partner's certificate good enough for his? After another four weeks, he received a letter saying that all was in order and issuing the CV was going ahead. Still no sign of a request for a photo though. Watch this space!
I just love this!
I arrived here in 1999, 18 months of UK cover, then CPAM, paying 1200 odd euros. Somehow, they managed to give me and my late wife two Soc Sec numbers so I kept getting a demand for payment just after the receipt for payment! it took a while...
Then came the CV, not a problem but....then came Sarkozy and, despite sending off proof of 5 years stable living in France by reg post, I was informed that I had ignored their demand and would lose cover. Even when this policy was shown to be illegal, it took months to get back to "normal" because each Departement has its own interpretation of the rules.
Don't get me started on Police Municipale and Gendarmes, I was done for jumping a red light in Albi when I was in nose-to-tail traffic and stuck across a light (and no, it wasn't a box junction!) No cameras here so it was my word against theirs. I have a journey recorder now, so playback will show what happened but I don't suppose that it is acceptable in law!
Joining in 2012 was fairly painless in comparison to some here. One thing I fail to get my head around is the fact that attestations are only valid for 6 months! We went storming into our local CPAM office to ask why we only had 6 months cover when Mr Cameron said we could have more. A lovely lady let me struggle through my speech and then politely pointed out the 6 months bit. She told us we just print off a new one in June. Anyone know why this is the system?
WE thought we were cruising on this when our local CPAM offered us an interview in the little town closest to our home. Two months later, they suddenly decide that my wife's abbreviated birth certificate [the only one she's ever had!] won't do and the full one with parents' names, occupations, etc is necessary. You couldn't make it up...
Yep, plus all the doctors obviously look at each other's systems and give you all appointments, same time, different towns deliberately!
Seems pretty bad organisation if you can't arrange for your family to be ill at different times;-)
I arrived in France July 2011 with all the appropriate paper work - I thought! The NI I had paid in the UK meant the UK would support me here in France until 4th Jan 2014 - I finally received my CV November 2013!
Same here Neil i think it was less in fact the only hick up was the uk had me married to a woman in Bristol so i received the wrong information, blamed it all on me of course as the DWP are totaly faultless
I just hear the stories, we were about two months in 2009. No hoops to jump through, translations or whatever. The only 'difficulty' we have is that I have the two children on mine which is difficult if more than one of us needs it at the same time.
I guess I'm very lucky then. I received my CV within two months of moving here in 2010.
I've been waiting since 2011 for mine ......
To be precise I've been in the system since 2009, but it took RSI 2 years to send me an attestation, and still waiting for the CV. Each time I contact them they send me yet another attestation (considering wallpapering the loo with them), but no CV to date.
Is this a record?
One thing I have just found if you are with RAM - You can printoff a copy of the attestation if you have an online account. I had not been sent one with my CV but needed it for the mutuelle.
Just log on and go to 'Mes démarches en ligne' and then you can go to 'TÉLÉCHARGER MES ATTESTATIONS' and print off from there.
Excellent video. My hospital lost my CV and it's taken me three months so far to get a new one- but I do have the attestation and my pharmacie has my details anyway.
Yeah, we’ve been pushing RSI to get our CVs and have been told that it is going to be middle of 2014 before they issue them so about a year. At least we have the Attestation to use at hospital visits. Rossi had a big 4kg beautiful baby boy called Harrison born on 21st December and we are both thrilled. Received Attestation covering Rossi for maternity the day she went into labour and entered hospital. …PHEW!
Andrew. Don't I just know it! I have money to invest but no way would I consider investing in anything in France. I'm just a little bloke. Imagine what big business must think. Sad or what?
Watch this video and you understand how I felt after 1.5 years of struggling to get the CV.