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Whether it be a residence, entry or student visa you require, Explorer Publishing takes a look at the rules and regulations.
If you have the means to stay in France without working you may apply for a long-term visa (visa de long séjour) which will allow you to stay in France without working.
• Your children are French and you’ve lived in the country for at least five consecutive years.
Reprinted with permission of Explorer Publishing from Paris Complete Residents' Guide.
The article says "At the time of your third carte de séjour renewal you may apply for a 10 year carte de resident," but this is not the case. According to Article L314-8 of the "Code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile" approved in 2007, you can request the resident card after a minimum of 5 consecutive years in France. More info here: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do;jsessionid=DC294EBB14B2FC0B9214604AE0BD64B5.tpdjo09v_1?idArticle=LEGIARTI000006335105
According to my prefecture (Vaucluse), I only have the right to apply for a residency card after 5 renewals (i.e. - in my 6th year of having a renewable titre de sejour), not after just 3 years as mentioned in your article. Have the laws changed?
Just saw maryb211's reply. This is the information i was given as well.
do you think the law is still that after 10 years of renewed tittre de sejours, one has the right to a residency card as stated in the article? As i can't see anyone employing me here in France, and I'm not too sure what the advantage is to obtain a residency card over a carte de sejour, i suppose waiting 4 more years for the process to happen is not such a bad thing.
They don´t know what they´re saying.
Most South-American citizens can come to France without a Visa and stay 3 months.
Most North-Americans can come and stay 6 months.
The rules are the same for all countries in the European Union.
I have a question: I arrived in France in December 2010 and was holding a carte de séjour with Visteur status. I am the wife of a PhD student, and hence my stay here. Now I have started an MS programme at Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble, France. I went back to the Prefecture for my visa renewal. I explained my situation, gave then the relevant documents asking for a carte de séjour étudiant, but got one for a Visiteur again. Would any of you have any suggestions for me - how I can get a carte de séjour étudiant?
MELUN PERFECTURE: What a terribly run office..a disgrace to France's immigration system....people are standing on line at 5am in the morning for a 9am start time. People stand online, outside and cannot get in before they run out of numbers but the people have waited for hours before the announcement. People are saying they are going in for drivers license but in fact go in for Carte de Sejour. I have been there twice last week and got turned away both times before getting inside. I am trying to get my sixth or a 10 years so next week, I will be on line at 6am. This cannot be right. Immigrants come here by choice and are treated like dirt by the people who work there. The inefficiencies of this office need to be looked at. There has to be a better way. Oh, one person will show up at 6am or earlier and at 8:45, some 10 to 15 will show up saying the one guy was holding a spot for them. Try to stop them and you have a confrontation which gets ugly. The inmates are running the asylum.....What a disgrace.
The article says "At the time of your third carte de séjour renewal you may apply for a 10 year carte de resident," but this is not the case. According to Article L314-8 of the "Code de l'entrée et du séjour des étrangers et du droit d'asile" approved in 2007, you can request the resident card after a minimum of 5 consecutive years in France. More info here: http://www.legifrance.gouv.fr/affichCodeArticle.do;jsessionid=DC294EBB14B2FC0B9214604AE0BD64B5.tpdjo09v_1?idArticle=LEGIARTI000006335105
According to my prefecture (Vaucluse), I only have the right to apply for a residency card after 5 renewals (i.e. - in my 6th year of having a renewable titre de sejour), not after just 3 years as mentioned in your article. Have the laws changed?
Just saw maryb211's reply. This is the information i was given as well.
do you think the law is still that after 10 years of renewed tittre de sejours, one has the right to a residency card as stated in the article? As i can't see anyone employing me here in France, and I'm not too sure what the advantage is to obtain a residency card over a carte de sejour, i suppose waiting 4 more years for the process to happen is not such a bad thing.
They don´t know what they´re saying.
Most South-American citizens can come to France without a Visa and stay 3 months.
Most North-Americans can come and stay 6 months.
The rules are the same for all countries in the European Union.
I have a question: I arrived in France in December 2010 and was holding a carte de séjour with Visteur status. I am the wife of a PhD student, and hence my stay here. Now I have started an MS programme at Grenoble Graduate School of Business, Grenoble, France. I went back to the Prefecture for my visa renewal. I explained my situation, gave then the relevant documents asking for a carte de séjour étudiant, but got one for a Visiteur again. Would any of you have any suggestions for me - how I can get a carte de séjour étudiant?
MELUN PERFECTURE: What a terribly run office..a disgrace to France's immigration system....people are standing on line at 5am in the morning for a 9am start time. People stand online, outside and cannot get in before they run out of numbers but the people have waited for hours before the announcement. People are saying they are going in for drivers license but in fact go in for Carte de Sejour. I have been there twice last week and got turned away both times before getting inside. I am trying to get my sixth or a 10 years so next week, I will be on line at 6am. This cannot be right. Immigrants come here by choice and are treated like dirt by the people who work there. The inefficiencies of this office need to be looked at. There has to be a better way. Oh, one person will show up at 6am or earlier and at 8:45, some 10 to 15 will show up saying the one guy was holding a spot for them. Try to stop them and you have a confrontation which gets ugly. The inmates are running the asylum.....What a disgrace.
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