I’ve been helping a British neighbour this afternoon putting some placo up. He said he knows some local brits (there’s a few around😬) who are seling up and moving to Spain because their WA CdS give them a right to Spanish residency, i.e. transferable. Is this right? I was under the impression that residency wasn’t transferable.
AFAIK that’s correct. Residency in one EU country cannot be parlayed into residency in another. That is why Brit residents in an EU country are still subject to the 90 day Schengen rules. It would be fab if that were not the case.
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Absolutely not from my experience. I’m currently helping friends who moved here from Germany about a year ago, and the Limoges prefecture actually had to have a little huddle out the back as to whether they even needed a photocopy of their existing WA residence cards as they were basically worthless as far as France was concerned. The issue seemed to be security based, whether someone needed the card number etc so they could be ‘tracked’ if you like having moved, but otherwise they had to apply as ‘new’ people to France, and most importantly for us pennypinchers pay the couple of hundred euros (I think it is) fee that comes with a normal (non WA) card. For them there was seemingly no interest in the fact that in Germany they were covered by the WA, they’ve now come to France so it’s a clean slate.
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So how are they getting on? I would imagine they will get what @kirsteastevenson 's ex-DE friends have to do.
I’m in a number of Facebook groups related to visas and residence in France and it amazes me just how many people are still making life-changing decisions based on a half-baked understanding of the post-Brexit situation.
“We’ve just sold our house in the UK and had an offer accepted on a French house, what do we do now to get a visa so we can fulfill our dream of doing professional macrame to sell in our gite?”
It wouldn’t surprise me at all if people were moving to Spain on a similar level of understanding based on Facebook research.
I don’t know them, but it sounds like they’re convinced that they can live in Spain based on their french CdS. I did express my doubts !
If one has withdrawal agreement rights in EU country A then the only advantage that I am aware of is that you can move to EU country B intending to become residence without a specific visa. However, within 90 days you must request a residency permit.
Much the same as a spouse of EU citizen. The rest of your withdrawal agreements rights are not transferred to new country B.
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I’ve not heard that one, do you have a link?
Nothing specifically on WARP cards but generically they are a titre de séjour européen, so this:
Yup, some the questions asked there and the predicaments folks have got themselves into a comedy gold.