{"id":289816,"date":"2025-07-25T05:53:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:53:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289816\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T05:53:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T05:53:11","slug":"understanding-brexit-withdrawal-agreement-card-renewals-and-expiry-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/289816\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding Brexit Withdrawal Agreement Card Renewals and Expiry in France"},"content":{"rendered":"

Difference between applying for a card \u2018duplicate\u2019 with a new address, and renewing a card<\/p>\n

\n You do not have to wait until the expiry date to renew
\n Ivan Marc \/ Shutterstock\n <\/p>\n

We have received several queries relating to \u2018renewals\u2019 of Brexit Withdrawal Agreement (WA) cards.<\/p>\n

One reader reports that he and his wife have five-year WA cards, with expiry dates in summer 2026 and December 2025, respectively.<\/p>\n

Having recently moved to Haut-Rhin, they enquired about renewing the cards, but were told it was not possible until nearer to the cards\u2019 expiry dates.<\/p>\n

Firstly, there is a difference between applying for a card \u2018duplicate\u2019 with a new address, and renewing a card because it is coming up to its expiry date within two to three months.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The former can be done at the Interior Ministry\u2019s Anef website, but is unnecessary if a card has less than a year to run before expiry. In the case of WA cards, the latter still has to be done at prefectures.<\/p>\n

Read more: We do not need Brexit Withdrawal Agreement card to visit France – so how can we cancel it?<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u2018Permanent stay\u2019 card<\/p>\n

However, legally, it is not necessary to wait until the expiry date approaches to swap a five-year card for a 10-year \u2018permanent stay\u2019 card, as the right to this arises after five years of stable residency.\u00a0<\/p>\n

A centralised online system for upgrading to a 10-year card is hoped for in due course, which may simplify and standardise this.<\/p>\n

The reader also stated he was worried about language tests: we must stress that no one with a WA should be required to prove language skills to stay in France.<\/p>\n

Another five-year cardholder, who enquired to his prefecture about obtaining the 10-year card, reports being told \u201cune carte de 10 ans vous sera d\u00e9livr\u00e9e automatiquement au renouvellement de votre titre de s\u00e9jour actuel\u201d.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He read this as meaning it will be sent to him when the previous card expires.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The meaning is rather that when someone applies to renew an expiring card, they will be issued the 10-year version without additional formalities<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Difference between applying for a card \u2018duplicate\u2019 with a new address, and renewing a card You do not…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":289817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-289816","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114912323571688332","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=289816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/289817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=289816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=289816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=289816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}