BritinBretagne

Thank you CT for (many pages back) for proving that you were making up figures. If your numbers that were so different to the published figures were true you would have simply provided a link. Your pathetic attempt to cover your tracks says it all.

Please provide a link to those statistics because none of the data that I can find confirms what you say.

The only one I’ve stayed in recently was excellent.

I’ve often used booking.com to get local accommodation for the night by searching late in the afternoon. One word of warning about telephone contracts, my contract that states it has European coverage actually means EU, using the phone and internet in Switzerland is not included.

[quote user="Mac"]I think you weigh up the risks and make your own decisions. We want to fly to Cyprus to see our daughter there. The best flights from Bordeaux-both in terms of time and cost ( do you know some flights from B to Cyprus take over 20 hours with stopovers in some very strange places!!) were with El Al with a change at Tel Aviv. We took the decision-maybe right ,maybe wrong-that with the present tensions in the ME those flights weren't for us. Instead for £100 more we're flying back to the UK and then on to Cyprus[/quote] Don’t forget you will be flying into an island that the RAF use like an aircraft carrier stationed close to the Middle East hotspots. If you really thought that flying was inherently unsafe in times of ME/western tension you wouldn’t be going anywhere near there anyway.

Be careful. As you have discovered the supports for your floor we’re not designed for domestic use let alone to carry the weight of ceramic tiles.

Be careful. As you have discovered the supports for your floor we’re not designed for domestic use let alone to carry the weight of ceramic tiles.

CT if your father’s card has the same wording it clearly says UE, something you previously claimed it did not do. Norman, I have explained how and why the costs will depend on the flavour of Brexit achieved and will be based on either the cost of a French citizen acquiring a passport or an identity card. RIFT has proved to be a useful resource for thousands of people by clarifying the information needed. The current card held by British Citizens has both Titre de Sejour and Carte de Sejour on it, it’s title in big letters is Titre de Sejour.

Mint, I will make sure that any future links I post are separate from the paragraphs above and below. A good point.

You are now misquoting me as well as trying to put words in my mouth. What on Earth are you trying to prove? Your advice has been confusing throughout and this latest twist just makes it more so. Perhaps your father being issued with the wrong card has confused you.

You are so off the mark this will be my last post on this thread. The RIFT link gives the most up to date information, at the moment we are in limbo waiting for... It is presumed that the same online portal will be used whatever type of Brexit emerges and as the paperwork required by British nationals needed if there is a no-deal Brexit will be more detailed than for any other situation it will be easy to for the applications already made online to be adjusted. I really don’t know where you have got the idea that a ‘new’ card will be produced for British applicants, the relevant TdS already exists. I have explained what will determine the cost of the card according to whether a deal or no-deal occurs, it’s hardly rocket science so should be easy to understand. If your father was not issued with a Carte de Sejour Citoyen UE/EAA/Suisse (it should be written halfway down on the front of the card under the heading ‘Nature du Titre’), he was issued with the incorrect card. I have my correct card in front of me as I type, it is clearly marked.

This is worth reading. https://www.remaininfrance.fr/cartesdesejour

The card we will be issued with after Brexit is significantly different to the EU/EAA/Suisse one. If there is a no deal it will cost the equivalent to a French National paying for a passport, if there is a deal the cost of an ID card. I believe that is either €119 or free.

ID is a strange thing. France stopped insisting that all British citizens resident in France had a CdS when the EU rules stated that proof of identity was sufficient. For that a passport not a photo driving licence was required. I was hoping that my CdS wold enable me to leave my passport at home when using my railcard to travel by train but apparently the CdS is not proof of identity so I should carry my passport as well. I’m waiting to be asked for ID when presenting my ticket on a train, I haven’t been since I got my CdS, to see if my CdS will be accepted in that situation.

I just photographed the documents that I needed then printed them directly on my laser printer. Much quicker than scanning. Good luck.

When you complete your first tax return one of the questions is, when did you arrive in France. As you say anything over five years is immaterial.

I have an 87 year old aunt who has lived in France for over six decades, for most of that time married to her French husband. She has lived in a francophone environment throughout. She speaks French with a posh English accent although her pronunciation is perfect. I have never, ever come across a situation where she has been misunderstood.

[quote user="Cathar Tours"]European residency cards now follow the same basic layout i.e. credit card size with photo. The problem if you already have one of these card is it might say that your nationality EU/EEE/Swiss rather than British. If that is the case you will require a new one after Jan 31st because of course you are no longer an EU citizen. I believe you have something like 12 to 18 months to get a replacement which is free. The good news is the new one will be for the total limit of the card so if you were previously issued with a 10 year card and it has 2 years left your new card should be for 10 years. If you don't have a residency card then after the Jan 31st you need to get one. The catch then is you will have to pay for it. In many countries you will pay whatever the UK is charging EU citizens for their residency card which is around £85. What a member state charges you is down to them and there is no universal EU fee but the general consensus is it should be like for like. The only issue I have been told is there will be a limitation on how long you can be away from the country that issues the card and that the card does not give you the same rights as an EU citizen and cannot be used as a travel document inside the EU. Like I said that's what I have been told rather than what I have rad on any official government website so it might not be correct but then I don't care. Now having German citizenship it's not a problem for me. All I have to decide over the next 12 months is do I keep my German/EU citizenship and get rid of my UK citizenship because you can't have dual nationality in Germany (unless you are an EU citizen). Think I will be posting my UK passport and RN 04/2019 on Feb 1st. I will then await my callup papers to the EU army and the arrival of all these Turks when Turkey joins the EU next week not to mention the total collapse of the Euro and EU over the next 18 months.[/quote] Your advice re Cartes de Sejour is way off the mark and is likely to confuse readers.

[quote user="isitlunchtime"]My advice. Don’t fill out any forms yet. That site was set up to deal with ‘no deal’. There will be a withdrawal deal which will possibly produce a eu response for U.K. citizens in Europe (as opposed to a purely French route). So dashing to fill out the French form may result in having to start again. There’s no rush and I’d suggest letting the dust settle. There will be acres of advice......c I have friends who tried to get a carte de séjour - just frustrating and unnecessary. There will be a clear way forward. The French were surprisingly quick, but a pan eu diktat , as we all know, is sometimes the most beneficial! All the best for 2020[/quote] My advice is do it. It’s straightforward and will register you in the system.

France does use what three words but just not for delivery addresses. It has a perfectly good system already.

I’m fairly sure that you will have to pay the registration fee again, just as you would if the car was changing ownership. Presumably when you re-registered the car in the U.K. the DVLA will have informed the French authorities and its will have been de-registered here.

Most communes are proud of their appearance so I can understand why they might not be too happy about an untidy, unkempt, unloved parcel of land within their boundaries. They can ask you to dismantle or repair buildings that are considered to be in bad condition and possibly a danger to others.

I was thinking similar things about you ALBF.

I know the area well, very well having lived around Krefeld, Düsseldorf and Heinsberg for over 26 years. The feedback I got from the first ‘Brexit’ meeting here was that it was really a waste of time. I think the British Embassy staff in Paris feel that they have to be doing something.

[quote user="Cathar Tours"]"I hadn't even heard of them before. Mind you down here it would probably be in Montpellier or Marseille which I couldn't get to on my mobility scooter" The nearest to me is Dusseldorf which is an hour and a half drive away. There have been two and they tend to start at around six which seeing as I normally finish between five and six is not a lot of use to me. The last one was in October and I was away in the US doing some trials so I wouldn't have gone anyway.[/quote] An hour and a half drive? Less than 40 km on the Autobahn? It’s also a very straightforward rail trip. There have been two BEOM in the theatre in my fairly small town. I know that the first was a sell out (free tickets but you had to use an Internet booking system) but the feedback was pretty negative, at the time they couldn’t add anything new to what the local British population already knew. The most recent was about a month or so ago and I have heard nothing about that from anyone, real or online. I can’t imagine that any groundbreaking news was shared then either.