This week the government cheekily published some decrees to activate clauses in last December’s immigration law.
The one of most potential interest to SF’ers will be the requirement to sign a contract to respect the principles of the republic on renewal of visas This may however not apply to renewal of WARP cards as depends whether it overrides withdrawal agreement.
The other main one is the tightening of rules about orders to quit french territory (OQTF), and that people will be placed under house arrest until they do.
Haven’t yet found anything about higher language requirements for nationality
Always on best behaviour too, so much to lose if I got into trouble with the law or fisc. Whatever the case, we are still guests here and should respect the rules.
Hmm, thought I’d signed something like that already! Pretty sure I have, just can’t remember where!
I wonder how the government is actually going to police the OQTF? Sticking a police person outside the flat/home/rental property of every person with an OQTF seems like quite a stretch on the currently available resources.
If you went through the OFII procedures for a multi-year residence card you will have signed the contrat d’integration, which is about respecting values and sticking to what you agreed to in terms of integration.
Even if the ‘contract’ does not apply to WARP card holders, I expect that there will be many Prefectures that don’t differentiate between renewal of WARP cards and those of other types. I reckon we will all be asked to sign the contract eventually, which personally I don’t see as being problematic for us law abiding folk.
On your point about a contract overriding the WA, I’d say it wouldn’t because it would be discriminatory unless all EU citizens were required to sign a contract - and which would be against the EU regulations on free movement ?
Edit - and also possibly problematic for 150K CdS renewals!
Presumably EU citizens will also be required to sign the contract if they get a carte de séjour, which some do.
Sorry but I don’t see how it’s discriminatory for a country to require everybody who wishes to be granted a titre de séjour to comply with certain formalities.
I don’t think France can condition the issuance of CdS to EU citizens and their families (as opposed to issuing ‘regular’ CdS under French domestic immigration rules). The legal peculiarity of an “EU” CdS - explicitly recognised and acknowledged by the French government in writing - is that EU citizens/their families already have the right to freedom of movement under EU treaties. The issuing of a CdS to EU citizens/families is NOT therefore granting them any new rights, but merely acknowledging the existence of that right at the point in time of issuing the CdS. Therefore the pre-existing right cannot be conditioned on something subsequent - like the contrat d’intégration. I would be very surprised indeed if the French government were to try and impose such conditions on EU citizens/their families in order to issue a CdS.
@JaneJones
thank you so much for this clear information…
Those of us with CdSWA can sleep easier now… not that I was actually chewing my fingernails, but uncertainty can and often does nibble away at one’s confidence in the wee small hours…
We’ll see next week when my wife picks up her new CdS as “Spouse of EU Citizen” - me. I agree that imposing this would seem to be a violation of EU FoM, but my wife (or I, for that matter) would have no problem signing it. We do it anyway (or at least, try to).
