Does anyone know what exactly are the “sufficient financial resources” that a (non french national) EU citizen needs to prove in order for his British spouse to be able to apply for a EU family member Carte de Sejour?
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Hello, and welcome.
To answer your question, sufficient resources for a single person are usually based on SMIC, the minimum wage. So around €1800 gross a month.
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A few additional points - which have surprised me (being in an almost identical situation, as the UK husband of my EU citizen wife).
One is that the EU/France are only really interested in what financial resources your EU citizen husband has and is uninterested in your resources. It may not be relevant but your husband does not have to hold/own the financial resources himself, but must simply be able to freely access them. As an alternative to income resources, an accumulation of sufficient capital is also acceptable to the EU/France (I used that approach myself). Finally when it comes to renewal of the CdS in 5 years, you/your husband will have to prove, retrospectively, year by year, evidence of his resources throughout that 5 year period, a fact recently confirmed to me by the EU.
All you could ever possibly wish to know - and.more - about sufficient resources is found from p30 onwards here..
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EU FoM rights EN.pdf (2.0 MB)
So RSA then?
Sorry. No idea.
Yes, Prefectures have been “encouraged” via a circulaire from the Interior Ministry to use RSA figures for ‘administrative guidance’ purposes, in the full knowledge that they can’t (officially) set income thresholds, falling below which equals automatic refusal.
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Did that answer your question, @MadeleinaKay ?
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And do let us know how you fared when you’re sorted 
Coincidentally, we’re currently gathering the evidence for Mrs H’s* CdS as an EU citizen and I’m getting twitchy as she has a very small income in her own name as her pensions don’t kick in until she’s 65 & 67. I’m hoping that the savings she has in her own name, and jointly, will take care of it. She doesn’t really need one but, having been bitten by Brexit she, not unreasonably, wants to have some formal recognition that she lives in France.
*She didn’t take my name but calling her Ms S would be quite confusing.
Not wishing to teach grandmothers etc - surely she has ‘access’ to (for example) your pension/other income (?) etc, which is (presumably) more than the bare minimum RSA threshold? As you know, she doesn’t need to own the funding source, free access to it is all that is required. The EU guidance specifically suggests that access to income of a spouse counts…
My Luxembourg wife (occasionally) says she too would like some official evidence of being here, but hasn’t shown a great deal of enthusiasm for applying for a CdS I can’t say I blame her.The occasional minor inconvenience of her having to take a passport to the post office to evidence her ID for parcels for her is far preferable to going through the CdS process.
Well, yes, but what concerns me is how the question is asked. It asks for her income and income from the spouse is listed separately along with a demand for an attestation that she will be supported. That’s the bit that makes me twitchy. I’ve made a huge pdf with our joint bank statements and her own savings accounts so hopefully that will do the trick.
I’m sure that will do the trick.
I assume this is the section you’ve been focusing on? Rightly or wrongly I’m interpreting it (for my renewal application) as alternative options ie a) votre accueillant est pris en charge…or n) votre accueillant dispose…I appreciate they have to try and ‘shoehorn’ the Regulations and EU guidance into discrete questions but I was slightly uncomfortable with the whole idea of me needing to do an attestation that I was ‘supporting’ my wife financially. We share everything. But I understand where they’re coming from.
That’s partly why we’ve taken the ‘option’ of responding only to the second limb (‘autres ressources‘) of the section instead of the first. I have assembled a year by year summary of my wife’s financial assets in her name/her share of joint assets, which we (intentionally) set up on arrival in France nearly 5 years ago. I believe Prefectures divide the assets by the number of months/years required to determine whether there are sufficient assets to meet RSA income thresholds.
