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Post by molehunter on May 24, 2022 9:46:33 GMT 1
I recently did a quick trip back to the UK in a RHD drive car with French plates.
At the port the (French) Customs were checking for any travelers with a CdS and a UK registered car. (I was checked both going in and out of France.)
Looks like the days of driving in France for years with UK plates, no MOT and no insurance are numbered.
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Post by hal on May 24, 2022 11:21:34 GMT 1
I wish!
Not down here. Still many old Transit vans and knackered Nissan SUVs on Y plates barely held together going around without a care in the world!
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Post by beejay on May 24, 2022 15:46:36 GMT 1
I recently did a quick trip back to the UK in a RHD drive car with French plates.
At the port the Customs were checking for any travelers with a CdS and a UK registered car. (I was checked both going in and out of France.)
Looks like the days of driving in France for years with UK plates, no MOT and no insurance are numbered.
UK or French customs?
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Post by Aardvark on May 24, 2022 16:39:05 GMT 1
They've been turning a blind eye here in Brittany for many years. Let's hope they get caught, but only likely if they go through a customs check. I haven't been stopped once in 21 years, mostly in RHD vehicles but on French plates with proper paperwork.
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Post by landmannnn on May 24, 2022 20:30:46 GMT 1
The UK DVLA (or whatever they are called) are particularly fussy, far more so than the French. For example you can't drive a French registered car if you are a UK resident.
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Post by hal on May 24, 2022 22:55:33 GMT 1
That is a Europe wide rule - a resident of a country cannot drive a foreign car in the country of residence. A French person is not permitted to drive a brexitland car in France.
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Post by pcpa on May 24, 2022 23:20:36 GMT 1
I recently did a quick trip back to the UK in a RHD drive car with French plates.
At the port the Customs were checking for any travelers with a CdS and a UK registered car. (I was checked both going in and out of France.)
Looks like the days of driving in France for years with UK plates, no MOT and no insurance are numbered. You may have been checked in both directions and asked if you had a carte de séjour but that does not infer they are targetting UK reg vehicles driven by CDS holders, indeed how would they know to stop them?
They ask the same questions to anyone with a UK passport regardless of what they are driving including passengers, its so they know whether to stamp the passport or not.
On my last trip they didn't ask so I didn't produce the CDS, some on here reckon they will come to take me away in 6 months!
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 6:34:07 GMT 1
Keep the answers short do not tell them you still hear voices and keep taking the meds and you should not get taken away. ☺
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Post by pcpa on May 25, 2022 11:54:48 GMT 1
Normally you blame your eye for your wrong answers or I did not read the thread before I answered. I can now fully understand why Vic used to say you posted nonsense. As for your latest French border control's if a brit does not get their passport stamped they could end up like the brit who got refused entry to Spain via Gibraltar as she did not bother to get it stamped on her last exit from Spain. You need to get out more get a boy friend or girlfriend. You might think it's funny stalking but it gets boring whether it's I'm a racist or cannot spell maybe you could move in with ibis. ☺ Try and avoid anything I post.
You make it a challenge to comply with your demand.
It is funny looking back that you spoke of stalking
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Post by beejay on May 25, 2022 14:18:58 GMT 1
Has the highlighted post been removed? Somebody got out of bed the wrong side this morning. However, pcpa is correct.
Entry into Spain from France by a Brit with/without CDS is different to them entering France from the UK when a passport is not stamped for a CDS holder.
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Post by hal on May 25, 2022 14:36:05 GMT 1
A good point.
I have a French CdS and French car. I drive into Spain from France regularly. I should get my passport stamped, but the border is never manned.
If I were stopped in Spain, in my French car and carrying my CdS, but an unstamped British passport - what is the penalty? what if I said there was no one at the border to stamp the passport? Indeed, would anyone care I wonder?
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2022 16:51:27 GMT 1
Has the highlighted post been removed? Somebody got out of bed the wrong side this morning. However, pcpa is correct. Entry into Spain from France by a Brit with/without CDS is different to them entering France from the UK when a passport is not stamped for a CDS holder. The post has not been removed chancer or whatever name he uses said when he came back into France the customs officers were just chatting away in there office or something similar to that and had no interest on the cars coming into France. I pointed out to him that if a British passport holder does not get their passport stamped when entering the EU they can have problems, see link below. This British woman tried to get into Spain from Gib but she did not have the exit stamp from her last visit to Spain she got refused entry. www.nationalworld.com/lifestyle/travel/uk-travel-british-woman-denied-entry-to-spain-due-to-post-brexit-passport-stamp-rule-3441413
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Post by another on May 25, 2022 19:10:56 GMT 1
A good point. I have a French CdS and French car. I drive into Spain from France regularly. I should get my passport stamped, but the border is never manned. If I were stopped in Spain, in my French car and carrying my CdS, but an unstamped British passport - what is the penalty? what if I said there was no one at the border to stamp the passport? Indeed, would anyone care I wonder? As a French resident you do not require a passport stamp either to enter Spain or exit, nor any other EU country. The Gibralter incident is a total red herring as the woman was a tourist.
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Post by hal on May 25, 2022 22:47:17 GMT 1
I guess the key to what you say is 'French resident', yes?
I was under the impression that the only place in the EU I could come and go is France.
Hotels in Spain have never queried my unstamped passport (nor asked for proof of French residency outside a contact address) so I just assumed no one really cared!
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Post by cernunnos on May 26, 2022 8:20:16 GMT 1
Voyager dans l'espace Schengen avec une carte de séjour française sans passeport est possible pour les ressortissants de la Suisse ou d'un État membre de l'Espace économique européen. Pour les citoyens des autres pays, la présentation d'un passeport est toujours obligatoire.
Traveling in the Schengen area with a French residence permit without a passport is possible for nationals of Switzerland or of a member state of the European Economic Area. For citizens of other countries, the presentation of a passport is always mandatory.
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