Moving to France as Spouse of an Irish passport holder

George1 · 28 March 2023 05:24

Carte de Séjour - Family Member of EU citizen -feedback General Discussion

Advance apologies. This feedback (on the issuing of a ‘Carte de Séjour/Family Member of EU citizen’) is perhaps only relevant to a few members. Compared to other CdS issues aired on this forum, it must be at the least ‘troublesome’ end of the spectrum! However I hope that the remarkable ease with which the CdS was issued may be reassuring to any others thinking of going down this route in future. My wife is from Luxembourg, I’m British and we arrived in France in July 2021. The local Préfecture played the entire process absolutely by the book, bang in line with the requirements of the EU regulations (strictly speaking, they probably had little choice!) The CdS was processed within a mere 3 weeks of my interview. The only hitches were the Préfecture lady’s initial insistence, then dropped, that as a Brit I should be doing the entire CdS application process online. I assume she possibly thought I was a Withdrawal Agreement case?There was also a slight case of pursed lips when I appeare…

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