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Hi Bev and everybody on this forum
This is my first thread and a fairly complexed one.
I am currently resident in France for the past 11 years on a 10 year Titre de Séjour (carte de resident) which s due for renewal in 2018. I am also in a PACS relationship with a french citizen for the last 9 years where all administration is in joint name eg accomodation, rates and city taxes, electricity and annual tax returns.
Due to personal reasons, there is a strong possibility that I may return to Cape Town indifinitely until my residency card is due for renewal for another 10 years. I will be making annual visits of 4 weeks because I most certainly want to preserve my French residency until the window perod of 2018 arrives. Obviously I wont be working in France until then and I wanted to know if this could be a HUGE problem to the prefecture regarding my renewal because I wont be submitting annual tax returns between 2014 and 2018, only my significant other would be.
When all personal issues are sorted in SA, I would definitely persue my french naturalisation, but as you already know, that is an entirely different ball game because the e TEF is now required to establish ones level of french skills. I can understand that this online test is required when entering France for the first time, but surely after being in France living and working, surely exceptions can be made by looking at the bigger picture! I am a law abiding resident, pay my taxes and contribute to the system, employed which obviously means I have an aduquate level of French!!!!!!
I would appreciate some feedback from anyone on the forum and BEV in particular because I am aware that one can be outside France for a maximum period of 3 years, but I most certainly would tempt fate because I will be doing annual visits in the interim. I would appreciate any advise you could offer to preserve my residency because in the perfect world I would like to eventually have dual citizenship and travel with my significant other between France and South Africa during retirement.
Thanking you for your time.
Regards
Chet Gordon
This is my first thread and a fairly complexed one.
I am currently resident in France for the past 11 years on a 10 year Titre de Séjour (carte de resident) which s due for renewal in 2018. I am also in a PACS relationship with a french citizen for the last 9 years where all administration is in joint name eg accomodation, rates and city taxes, electricity and annual tax returns.
Due to personal reasons, there is a strong possibility that I may return to Cape Town indifinitely until my residency card is due for renewal for another 10 years. I will be making annual visits of 4 weeks because I most certainly want to preserve my French residency until the window perod of 2018 arrives. Obviously I wont be working in France until then and I wanted to know if this could be a HUGE problem to the prefecture regarding my renewal because I wont be submitting annual tax returns between 2014 and 2018, only my significant other would be.
When all personal issues are sorted in SA, I would definitely persue my french naturalisation, but as you already know, that is an entirely different ball game because the e TEF is now required to establish ones level of french skills. I can understand that this online test is required when entering France for the first time, but surely after being in France living and working, surely exceptions can be made by looking at the bigger picture! I am a law abiding resident, pay my taxes and contribute to the system, employed which obviously means I have an aduquate level of French!!!!!!
I would appreciate some feedback from anyone on the forum and BEV in particular because I am aware that one can be outside France for a maximum period of 3 years, but I most certainly would tempt fate because I will be doing annual visits in the interim. I would appreciate any advise you could offer to preserve my residency because in the perfect world I would like to eventually have dual citizenship and travel with my significant other between France and South Africa during retirement.
Thanking you for your time.
Regards
Chet Gordon