No idea… didn’t ask age of children… just “if”… and where living…
Hi John… I was a nervous wreck, heading for that office… and never noticed any list…
Then, we hightailed it out… feeling so exhilarated… 
sorry our paths crossed “silently”…
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France likes to know everything, parents first names and any children is nothing compared to everything they want for naturalisation (along with all the certificates and translations there of) 
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Can I just double check that Stella please? When we got our CdS two years ago we had to go into the prefecture to collect them, not least because the reason for having finger prints taken at the interview meant that when we collected our CdS they could check it was us by taking a random fingerprint. OH had real problems because the machine kept not recognising his print. In the end they gave up.
Are you certain they are posting it to you?
I think they post it to you after you have been to the Prefecture, been fingerprinted, again, it might have changed, and given them a signature.
I believe that you need a new 'photo as well.
Yes, this is the streamlined procedure for all WA CDS - an appointment for fingerprints and to drop off your photo then the CDS gets posted to you (at this stage they are estimating 1 month so will be interesting to see if this is the case with Stella and John).
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@toryroo Thanks Tory. That means OH only has to go through the fuss of trying to get the first set of fingerprints - or will they just keep on file what they finally (after about 5 tries) managed to get 2 years ago?
Andrew,
thank you for your kind words.
I am more than happy to live in France for the past 20 odd years and hopefully for many more. I don’t have a “vindicative, twisted view of the state that has welcomed them”.
However, I don’t look at the current mess the French authorities have created through “rose tinted glasses”.
If more people had been asking these difficult questions perhaps the UK ex-pats in France(and the rest of the EU27) would be getting a better deal instead of putting up with a half-baked set of entitlements that are less than long-term EU residents from the USA etc. are entitled to.
Grahame, let’s agree to disagree and leave it at that.
IMMIGRANTS from the UK. Expats will have no problems seeing they are on juicy but temporary foreign postings rather than wanting to live here until they shuffle off the mortal coil.
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I haven’t got it all in front of me, and I can’t remember off my head but some people will need to get their fingerprints redone while handing in their photos. I’ll dig through my paperwork tomorrow for you and see if I can get an answer.
We are never going to agree and I said many posts ago that I was stepping away from replying to you but honestly the French have been amazing in what they are asking so that everyone can get sorted with their CDS. You have long standing, unfounded issues with the whole CDS issue. You just need to put yoru application in and you are sorted. The horse is dead.
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The visit is also to confirm your identity with your passport.
I wouldn’t disagree however throughout the very short interview everyone wore masks
Must say, I had thought they might ask us to remove our masks…
but she could presumably see enough of OH and me… to make the decision that we were who we claimed to be.
plus… matching the signatures and personal details already on file.
I reckon, if there were serious doubts, a quick unmasking… or more indepth “check” might well be undertaken…
When the French make software work, it works.
QR code for paying my tax? I gave it zero chance. It works!
Online carte de sejour app? I gave it 50% chance. It works!
I can’t help but compare that with the Settled Status app in the UK, which so many EU citizens report wouldn’t scan their passports correctly, then locked them out for days before they could retry.
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Yep, I’ve been taking payment of speeding fines for a number of years so when the new system for paying fines and impôts was muted I signed up and everything’s worked from the launch. The local Trésor Public now simply sends everyone to me to take their payments 
For all those in the Carmaux/Ségala area: just pop in with your impôts/fines, as long as there’s a QR code I can take payment (cash or CB, no cheques): Le Jean Guillaume, 22 place Gambetta, 81400 Carmaux.
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Hope you get a reasonable fee/percentage
Very, very small, (to the extent that larger bills aren’t worth anything to me if paid by CB as the bank charges outweigh the fixed fee commision! :-O) but overall “every little helps” and once it’s well established and they’ve closed most of the trésor public we’ll be in a better position to renegotiate fees…!
Wow that’s a bit harsh! I’m guessing that people perhaps pick something up while they are in there or do they not?
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