carte de sejour

Hello! I imagine this question/fact pattern is familiar to a lot of y'all. I'm an American who just got PACs'ed in France a month ago. I have been coming back and forth to France for a few years, only staying 3 months at a time so I've never gotten a long stay visa. Because of Covid madness, I...

Hello, 20 years ago I bought a shop in france I have been paying the Tax foncière on it since. I have let the shop for a few years now it's vacant and it needs redoing and fixing. I have always lived in UK and like I said I always paid my tax foncière for the shop Can I apply for the carte de...

I am a US citizen living in France. I own a house in Pyrenees Atlantiques. I presently have a 'visa de longue sejour a titre de sejour'. It will expire this October, 2020. I assume that I need to apply for a 'carte de sejour' rather than simply renewing the VLS-TS. I assume that I need to go...

I was wondering if someone could help me understand which CDS temporaire I should be applying for if I plan to enter France on the Schengen Visa free 90 days and then apply for a CDS/TDS? My wife is French, and I'm Australian. I have seen on the prefecture website that there are 2 types of CDS...

Good Evening All! I've been scouring over the internet for the past couple of days and have had so may mixed responses, so it would be great if you guys can help me out! I'm a dual citizen, French and American, and recently got married here in the US to a Canadian citizen. We are planning on...

Hello, I haven't been able to find any information regarding this. I am moving tomorrow (from Lille to Bordeaux) and I just received confirmation to pick up my carte de sejour at the prefecture (which is closed until Monday). I am wondering if it is possible to have my carte de sejour...

Soooo many uncertainties which won’t be resolved for a while, if at all.. I know that there have been many discussions / threads regarding Brexit but if anyone can give some insight into my current thoughts / situation: - I am planning to move from Guernsey (with current full European rights)...

Hi there, I'm in the process of applying for profession liberale and I need to supply letters of support from French business who I have met and who would in theory be interested in using my services (I'm a copywriter). I want to supply them with a template to make it easy for them to write...

Hi there, I've trawled the forums for related posts and while I've learnt a lot from you guys I couldn't find anyone quite in our situation! So I'm an EU citizen (UK) and my husband is a US citizen, I came here for work in September 2017 and he came with me on a tourist visa with hopes of...

Hello all. Right now I'm in France on a long-term visitor's visa and work remotely for a US company (the same job I had before moving to France). In a few months I will apply for a carte de sejour once I'm PACsd and have a few questions I'm hoping you all can assist with: 1. When I receive the...

Hi there, My French fiance and I are going to get married in Paris this summer in July 2018. We will then return back to the USA (where we both live and work; I am a USA citizen and he has a green card here). Upon returning to the USA in August 2018, I will apply for a spouse visa. Is this...

Hi everyone, I am planning on getting married to a French citizen in France this summer (I am American). We would like to resettle, open a business, and eventually start a family. Can someone explain the timeline and requirements/ help make sense of the Carte de Sejour, long-term stay visas...

Dear Expats, I hope you can help me: there have been a few similar questions on this forum to mine but none quite the same (and the relevant laws and policies may have changed in recent times). I am Irish-UK citizen living in the UK but planning to spend approximately a year in France, so we...

My long-stay visitor visa expires in about a week. I need help. So I went to my prefecture (Hauts-de-seine/Nanterre) two months ago to renew my visa and get a carte de sejour. They turned me away and told me to send my dossier via post to the prefecture, after which I am supposed to receive...

Hi All I'm new, not to France but to prefectures and paying attention to paperwork now as I'm EU citizen with UK passport, not enough consistent time living or working in France to qualify for residency etc as I never thought I'd have to be so careful about not leaving for any length of time...

Carte de séjour renewal processing time Having just picked up our "carte de séjour temporaire "visiteur"" after living our first year here with the visa (issued in the US) that we converted into a titre de séjour shortly after arrival, I wanted to share the experience in case it might be useful...

Hello, first post here, from a soon-to-be-expat :) I am seriously confused about some of the rules surrounding the carte de séjour. :confused: I'm hoping to move to Paris next year to take a Dual Degree course at Sciences Po. This is a two year course; the first year is in Paris, and the...

Having received some excellent advice here, I headed to the Commissiriat here in Paris to apply for a Carte de Sejour for my wife and my step-son. Bad news: was told that my son can only apply for a "Circulation Transfrontiere" and, more importantly, only when my wife has her Carte de Sejour...

Hi, I've seen this topic addressed numerous times in other threads here, but our situation has some unique particularities to it, and I was wondering if anyone here can lend some insight.. I'm American, my girlfriend is French. We've been living in Ireland together for over a year--I've been...

I've been living in France 6 years now and my Carte de sejour was stolen. Went to the Prefecture today and they gave me the Récépissé de demande de carte de séjour because my card my not be ready in time for my trip to the USA. I am leaving for 3 weeks for San francisco and now hear that I may...