Thanks folks. I’m honestly not making this up - I asked my employer for a G permit as I had with my first job, but Zürich is not a border area - it’s covered in Article 25 here Fedlex
1 Un étranger ne peut être admis en vue de l’exercice d’une activité lucrative en tant que frontalier que:
a.
s’il possède un droit de séjour durable dans un État voisin et réside depuis six mois au moins dans la zone frontalière voisine;
b.
s’il exerce son activité dans la zone frontalière suisse.
Which from Alsace to Zürich isn’t the case - it’s the next canton along - it was L-permit or no job apparently.
With respect to citizenship - yeah, it needs sorting, but it won’t happen in time for a change of job in the next six months, which is why I’m trying to work out any issues now. I can just wait but this current job is a succession of temporary contracts and I’d love to take this other one as it’s permanent and much closer to home.
I don’t think any restrictions or problems with your Swiss work permit at the Swiss end have anything to do with your continuing rights held by you and still held under the WA permit you hold for your residence in France.
The fact sounds to me to be that you left France to perform work elsewhere and you returned to your home in France on sone sort of regular-ish basis from that work.
When I was a frontalier I had to get the UK as my work state to issue an S1 as rhe state you work in is the first responsible for your healthcare. Am I guessing correctly you also somehow had health cover either in or paid by Switzerland?
More interesting is did your husband say his French tax declaration was for 2 of you or just him?
Also thanks for the extract but without full context as I know there are a few special arrangememts concerning Switzerland for France and the EU, it’s very hard to know where that text applies and where it doesn’t.
Also it’s conceivably possible that your status in Switzerland, standalone, was fine and your status in France was also fine - without the 2 statuses kind of ‘matching’ when looked at together. CH is so close to France and a bit ‘special’ so it might have been that some mismatch eg covered in both places for the same thing, when theoreticslly only in/by one was needed, or a type of work permit that does not appear to match something in your French situation but may have been the most fitting available in CH, was overlooked. I know CH is really strict but with the closeness to EU and France it may have looked OK at the Swiss end. Imagine if you found out now if not being actually French, you shouldn’t have had that work permit? Embarrassing for all concerned
Gut feeling your status of French domicile never changed.
