blampied
Member
We live in Jersey. But we’re live board boating south of france and Spain for several years, a return home to Jersey for family reasons followed by Covid caused us to miss out on getting any sort of Brexit French resident visa.
A few days ago we bought a new boat (second hand but new to us) in Gibraltar.
Was expecting to bring it back through the french inland waterways (getting on in years we take our time) the 90 day Schengen limit is just not long enough to bring the boat back.
So we have been looking into getting a French 6 month visa.
looks good but all but impossible to get.
need an appointment to call at the french visa office in London to pay £80 take paperwork and passport
they keep the passport for up to 20 days
then another appointment is needed to collect the passport and visa 15 to 20 days later.
We’re from Jersey so for me and wife that’s 8 flights Jersey to London, London to Jersey, and again to get the passports visa back
a least a thousand pounds in flights alone or far more if we didn’t fly back home to jersey and stay up to 20 days in a London hotel. Then It’s possible but not ideal trying to fly back and forth to Jersey with photo I’d instead of your passport.
.There was an option to have the paperwork and passports courier back after the 20 days, but they have now stopped that service, but even if there was for us no passports for 20 days is no good, we need our passports to get back to Gib to work on the boat. For us the French visa looks to be stupidly costly and inconvenient.
A few days ago we bought a new boat (second hand but new to us) in Gibraltar.
Was expecting to bring it back through the french inland waterways (getting on in years we take our time) the 90 day Schengen limit is just not long enough to bring the boat back.
So we have been looking into getting a French 6 month visa.
looks good but all but impossible to get.
need an appointment to call at the french visa office in London to pay £80 take paperwork and passport
they keep the passport for up to 20 days
then another appointment is needed to collect the passport and visa 15 to 20 days later.
We’re from Jersey so for me and wife that’s 8 flights Jersey to London, London to Jersey, and again to get the passports visa back
a least a thousand pounds in flights alone or far more if we didn’t fly back home to jersey and stay up to 20 days in a London hotel. Then It’s possible but not ideal trying to fly back and forth to Jersey with photo I’d instead of your passport.
.There was an option to have the paperwork and passports courier back after the 20 days, but they have now stopped that service, but even if there was for us no passports for 20 days is no good, we need our passports to get back to Gib to work on the boat. For us the French visa looks to be stupidly costly and inconvenient.