French Cizitenship Questions
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French Cizitenship Questions
Good afternoon everybody.
I am nearing the 5 year mark living in France (April next year) and would like to apply for citizenship via naturalisation.
I've read through the requirements
Am I legally obliged to remain living in France during this period? I am thinking about going back to the UK for a year or two before coming back to France again to continue working. Would this be against the rules and would it hurt my application process?
As I understand it you apply, have the meeting and then wait for the result but there is not much information on the goverment website about the waiting part.
If anybody could help me with this that would be great!
I am nearing the 5 year mark living in France (April next year) and would like to apply for citizenship via naturalisation.
I've read through the requirements
- Display adequate language skills (I have a b2 DELF exam)
- Pay taxes for 5 years
- Employed 5 years (now self employed with my own EURL)
- etc
Am I legally obliged to remain living in France during this period? I am thinking about going back to the UK for a year or two before coming back to France again to continue working. Would this be against the rules and would it hurt my application process?
As I understand it you apply, have the meeting and then wait for the result but there is not much information on the goverment website about the waiting part.
If anybody could help me with this that would be great!
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
I don't know the answer.
But, bear in mind that naturalisation isn't automatic, the application isn't a box ticking process like a carte de sejour application is. They look at the application as a whole and try to get a clear picture of your situation and how committed and invested you are in France; and make their decision on that. So even if there is no rule as such that says you must not leave the country, they might feel that if you're not living there any more you aren't/weren't 100% invested in France. Which might not help your application.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Oh and make sure you get your CdS before next July. Once you've lived here for 5 years I believe you retain your residence rights as long as you're not away from France for longer than 5 years.
But, bear in mind that naturalisation isn't automatic, the application isn't a box ticking process like a carte de sejour application is. They look at the application as a whole and try to get a clear picture of your situation and how committed and invested you are in France; and make their decision on that. So even if there is no rule as such that says you must not leave the country, they might feel that if you're not living there any more you aren't/weren't 100% invested in France. Which might not help your application.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Oh and make sure you get your CdS before next July. Once you've lived here for 5 years I believe you retain your residence rights as long as you're not away from France for longer than 5 years.
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
Are you committed to "La Republique". Or does one foot remain in Angleterre ?
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
I don't know the answer.
But, bear in mind that naturalisation isn't automatic, the application isn't a box ticking process like a carte de sejour application is. They look at the application as a whole and try to get a clear picture of your situation and how committed and invested you are in France; and make their decision on that. So even if there is no rule as such that says you must not leave the country, they might feel that if you're not living there any more you aren't/weren't 100% invested in France. Which might not help your application.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Oh and make sure you get your CdS before next July. Once you've lived here for 5 years I believe you retain your residence rights as long as you're not away from France for longer than 5 years.
But, bear in mind that naturalisation isn't automatic, the application isn't a box ticking process like a carte de sejour application is. They look at the application as a whole and try to get a clear picture of your situation and how committed and invested you are in France; and make their decision on that. So even if there is no rule as such that says you must not leave the country, they might feel that if you're not living there any more you aren't/weren't 100% invested in France. Which might not help your application.
Welcome to the forum by the way.
Oh and make sure you get your CdS before next July. Once you've lived here for 5 years I believe you retain your residence rights as long as you're not away from France for longer than 5 years.
So do they kind of spy on you during the 18 month period to see what you're up to? It seems like an unnecessarily long period to wait for a response.
That is good news about being able to leave the country for up to five years, that would actually fit in with my plans of going back to the UK for a year or two if applying for citezenship will mean I'm stuck here for 18 months.
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
That doesn't mean that I don't love it here and couldn't spend many more years here again in the future.
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
Plus in any case, if you applied before you'd been here for 5 years then I imagine it's a provisional CdS?
I have to say your attitude to France seems strangely dismissive and hostile for a person who wants to become a French citizen.
If it's just freedom of movement you want then as said above, once you've lived here for 5 years and qualified for "permanent" residence rights, you can leave France for up to 5 years and then come back and you will still have the right to live and work here. And it costs nothing. Why go to the expense of applying for citizenship if you're not committed to France?
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Re: French Cizitenship Questions
Good afternoon everybody.
I am nearing the 5 year mark living in France (April next year) and would like to apply for citizenship via naturalisation.
I've read through the requirements
Am I legally obliged to remain living in France during this period? I am thinking about going back to the UK for a year or two before coming back to France again to continue working. Would this be against the rules and would it hurt my application process?
As I understand it you apply, have the meeting and then wait for the result but there is not much information on the goverment website about the waiting part.
If anybody could help me with this that would be great!
I am nearing the 5 year mark living in France (April next year) and would like to apply for citizenship via naturalisation.
I've read through the requirements
- Display adequate language skills (I have a b2 DELF exam)
- Pay taxes for 5 years
- Employed 5 years (now self employed with my own EURL)
- etc
Am I legally obliged to remain living in France during this period? I am thinking about going back to the UK for a year or two before coming back to France again to continue working. Would this be against the rules and would it hurt my application process?
As I understand it you apply, have the meeting and then wait for the result but there is not much information on the goverment website about the waiting part.
If anybody could help me with this that would be great!
Unfortunately EURLs didn't exist when I set up my SàRL last century, but from what I read, they are relatively similar. Have you got a Gérant or Accountant to look after your EURL if you left France "for a year or two"? There must be social charges to pay on your nominal salary, plus all the other Bureaucracy, taxes, etc... that go with such business structures. If not, and no paperwork/payments were made during that time, I suspect that red flags would go up in all the Administrations, and would reach the Préfecture.
I've no idea whether you'd be "allowed" to leave France for so long while waiting for your Citizenship, but you'd risk the Préfecture considering your application as "pas sérieuse"....
HTH