Rights in France after 3 years in Finland? WARP still valid

[Susannah]

@Sandcastle

It confirms that a person has the right to reside.

However,

@Susannah

If they are away from France for 6 consecutive months at any time during the card’s 5 years validity, the France issued CdS rights are forfeit.

My point is that, when the holder is not a resident of France or is absent from France for 6 months, they thereby lose the WA 5yr CdS covered right to residency in France.

This has been mulled over on SF before

CdS being obtained by non-resident second home owners

France has very strict privacy and confidentiality laws that apply to the authorities as much as, if not more than to private companies and individuals. One department can’t simply ask another department to share personal information. I remember that when healthcare switched from CMU to PUMA and URSSAF was charged with calculating cotisations based on information about income submitted on the income declaration submitted to the tax office (previously inactifs had had to fill in a separate income declaration to URSSAF for this purpose), the Senat had to debate and approve the transfer of data from the fisc to URSSAF. Additionally, the tax office cannot simply demand taxes if a person did not meet the criteria for tax residency. Holding a WA CdS is not, in itself, a criterion for tax residency. It may be that a person who has a WACdS and has not filed taxes has committed fraud, but they have not committed tax fraud so it is not the fisc’s business. The penalty for making a fraudule…

The WA CdS was created for Brits to be resident in France, not for maison secondaire dwellers to have freedom to come and go. These would need to apply by tourist rules or wait for France to issue a new part time permit for second home (or boat) part time residents. I am well aware that there are more than a few users of 5 and 10 year WA CdS obtained during the period of grace that are not in fact French residents. Gaming the system does not make it legally correct.