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We gave our Canadian drivers licences to our local mairie to exchange for a french drivers licence, one day before the expiration date on our French visa (expired Nov 01 2011) even through our new titre de sejour had not been recieved as yet. we wanted to make sure that we adhered to the one year exhange law. Consequently our titre de sejour arrived on November 3 2011.
Our mairie forwarded the paper work on November 9 2011 to the sub perfecture. Yesterday we recieved a letter from the sub perfecture stating that we had not submeitted our paper work on time and our request for a licence exchange had been denied as per article 4 January 12 2012.
Two issues...
Isn't the Marie considered part of the "system" and therefore we deposited and recieved a receipt and temporary french dirvers licence, on time???
Since the Mairie forwarded all the paper work prior to January 12 2012, shouldn't our request be protected under the law prior to that date???
It is impossible for me to write the drivers test in French and I understand that going to an auto ecole is very expensive. We are retired and have a strict budget. Therefore our only way out is to sell our beautiful home that we just finished renovating as it is located in the country and a car is necessary.
Can anyone offer us any advice
Our mairie forwarded the paper work on November 9 2011 to the sub perfecture. Yesterday we recieved a letter from the sub perfecture stating that we had not submeitted our paper work on time and our request for a licence exchange had been denied as per article 4 January 12 2012.
Two issues...
Isn't the Marie considered part of the "system" and therefore we deposited and recieved a receipt and temporary french dirvers licence, on time???
Since the Mairie forwarded all the paper work prior to January 12 2012, shouldn't our request be protected under the law prior to that date???
It is impossible for me to write the drivers test in French and I understand that going to an auto ecole is very expensive. We are retired and have a strict budget. Therefore our only way out is to sell our beautiful home that we just finished renovating as it is located in the country and a car is necessary.
Can anyone offer us any advice