November 27, 2018

Legal

Got our Cartes de Sejour :) As someone else remarked, blood, sweat and dossiers - though of course in the event it wasn't that bad.
They give you a temporary one with instructions to return when they text you to collect the final version. The final version needs a leeeetle bit more paperwork; in my case the attestation that shows my entitlement to the carte vitale, which I already have and could not have got without said attestation.
The Prefecture was closed due to the gillets jaunes activity (appointments only) which was very marked in Carcassonne. Lots of them round a big bonfire, restricting the motorway traffic and fiddling with the shoppers access to the out-of-town warehouse stores...

Anyone who has not been paying attention may not know that when Britain leaves the EU, the Brits living in France may not have the right to stay here. No-one knows, of course - least of all the government in Blighty - however the Carte de Sejour will give us the right to travel in Europe and maybe to remain in France.
When ours expires in ten years, England will no doubt have become a socialist republic and fit to visit again. Should we live that long.

Voila, a winter vide grenier! To support those who were so hammered in the flood. Sunday. Be there.

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