Metock case and Singh - return to the UK & residence Car

tebee wrote:Where are you looking for houses and what are you looking for ?

There is ones available in this area ( Brittany) from €350-450 a month for smallish, OK but not luxurious houses - I rent out some of them !

You might get asked a few months in advance as you don't have a job or a french guarantor but a full year is unlikely.

Thanks for that because I needed to.travel frequently between London and France, we wanted to stay somewhere of commutable distance .... Which is why we looked into the suburbs of Paris.

Ah well, if you look in expensive places, you find expensive solutions.

I'm lucky, I run my business on the internet, so can work where housing is cheap. I fact I spend part of the year in Brittany and Part in Thailand !

SRAQAI wrote:

Directive/2004/38/EC wrote:Have you contacted Solvit?

Also, did they refuse you in writing because of your lack of a long term lease? What exactly did they say?

Well she was very excited when I showed her my British passport, seemed nice, until I showed her my husband's passport. I showed her a print out in French detailing our right and husbands under eu laws etc.... Blank face. She said this is fine but we need to have a place to live, with evidence before applying for a non eu spouse of eu citizen carte de sejour. I considered informing SOLVIT, but considering my terrible experience with them over the last two years, nothing would have been done to help us, I can almost 99.9% gaurantees that. UK solvit are not interested in standing up to rights of UK citizens and their spouses in eu.

We have left France now.... After spending more then £3000 in short and other expenses... accommodation and other expenses. I would strongly advise people NOT to go to France under this Directive. Especially if you look like a Muslim (I hate to say this, but my headscarf didn't help matters)

Contacting Solvit can help. And complaining can help. You did neither of those in this situation.

Sorry it did not work out for you.

SRAQAI wrote:

frei wrote:Congrats Sraqai, I guess you are trying to settle in Paris? Or a suburb close to it? It might be so, why don't you try renting in a smaller town? Rental agreements are easy to secure and the market are always less competitive .

We have tried everything. Anyone who is interested in renting to us, want us to either pay a years rent in advance or freeze €20,000 in a french acct

Hi, I know exactly what you mean, My family and I arrived in France over a week ago and have decided to try Holland and Germany as the French just dont want to help, and my French is useless, just what I remember from school.

Hi all, sorry about late response, just been really busy.

Directive: I've complained left right and centre, problem is, that complaining doesn't help the situation there and then. It takes time for resolution, until then we cannot do anything. We can't afford to sit and twiddle thumbs in a Parisian hotel, without a residency permit for my husband so he can work, until the commission or solvit or anyone else.decides to.address our complaints. Solvit alone takes minimum 10 weeks. I'm in self employment, but at the moment because its a start up its not really bringing us in much money and we need an income to live!!! Can't waste away money sitting in Paris waiting for these European institutional airheads to get back to me.

Tebee: I needed to commute to London twice a week and its easier to do from Paris.

Kikijon: I wouldnt wish France on anyone. On returning from Paris, and coming across French in London, I questionned them. They all said that this was why they were in the UK because they find it hard to find a place to live in their own country. If this is the case for French, what chance do we have?

Frie: I'm back in London now. Hubby back in pakistan. Back to square one