I am Australian and my wife is Irish and we arrived in France on the 30th of November last year.
After our requisite three months of residence, we made a joint application to be covered by the health system. We did this at the CPAM office in Villeneuve sur Lot in March.
They sent me a temporary social security number (attestation des droits) in late April. But nothing for Cliona.
I resubmitted all the paperwork for her in May to the regional office in Agen.
I got my permanent number the other day and fingers crossed my Carte Vitale soon.
Still nothing for Cliona.
Then an envelope arrives in the postbox, in fact two envelopes. One contains all her documents we had resubmitted and the other a letter informing Cliona her application was incomplete.
It listed the required documents ...
She needs to prove when she arrived in France. She cannot do that as she came in on a European passport. (I was able to prove my entry date, because there was a stamp in my Australian passport.)
They want the last two energy bills. She can't do that either as we have "bill softening" whereby EDF takes an amount out of our joint account by direct debit each month ... no bills are issued.
Tax assessments from the previous two financial years.
P60 forms from the past two financial years ... she does not have them, as they are issued in the UK and she lived in Australia prior to coming to France.
The nature and proof of her income ... ie bank account balances in France and overseas for the past six months.
They want simikar proof of my account/s.
They want une attestation de fin de droits ... formulaire E104 or DWP. We have no idea what this is.
Finally, she needs to provide details of her "personal situation" (family or professional) prior to and after settling in France.
The letter warned her that if she didn't provide these documents within 45 days her application would lapse.
I can't undertand why for me it was relatively smooth sailing but for my wife it's a bureacratic tsunami.
After our requisite three months of residence, we made a joint application to be covered by the health system. We did this at the CPAM office in Villeneuve sur Lot in March.
They sent me a temporary social security number (attestation des droits) in late April. But nothing for Cliona.
I resubmitted all the paperwork for her in May to the regional office in Agen.
I got my permanent number the other day and fingers crossed my Carte Vitale soon.
Still nothing for Cliona.
Then an envelope arrives in the postbox, in fact two envelopes. One contains all her documents we had resubmitted and the other a letter informing Cliona her application was incomplete.
It listed the required documents ...
She needs to prove when she arrived in France. She cannot do that as she came in on a European passport. (I was able to prove my entry date, because there was a stamp in my Australian passport.)
They want the last two energy bills. She can't do that either as we have "bill softening" whereby EDF takes an amount out of our joint account by direct debit each month ... no bills are issued.
Tax assessments from the previous two financial years.
P60 forms from the past two financial years ... she does not have them, as they are issued in the UK and she lived in Australia prior to coming to France.
The nature and proof of her income ... ie bank account balances in France and overseas for the past six months.
They want simikar proof of my account/s.
They want une attestation de fin de droits ... formulaire E104 or DWP. We have no idea what this is.
Finally, she needs to provide details of her "personal situation" (family or professional) prior to and after settling in France.
The letter warned her that if she didn't provide these documents within 45 days her application would lapse.
I can't undertand why for me it was relatively smooth sailing but for my wife it's a bureacratic tsunami.