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Brexit: new residency cards will be sent direct to your home

The launch of the official website for Britons to apply for residency cards has been delayed to October 1 to allow prefectures to deal with a backlog of applications from other third-country citizens whose cards expired during confinement.

Brexit residency card website: when it will open

France is to open a website in October for Britons already living here to apply for the new obligatory residency cards.

Brexit: "politicians must listen to businesses"

A good Brexit deal this year is key to the future of UK-France trade worth €100billion a year, says the president of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce and Industry.

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Brexit card site open in October: How to prove residency?

All Britons living in France before the end of the transition must apply for new “Brexit deal” cards to benefit from the Withdrawal Agreement.

Q&A: Your Brexit deal card queries

We answer below a selection of the many queries we have received about the new residency cards. Some details of the new system were not available on going to press and the site itself was not open, but it was due to launch at the beginning of July.

Ed Llewellyn: what the EU exit means for residents in France

Every month the British Ambassador to France, Ed Llewellyn, shares an insight into his role.

The Oxford professor hoping to save Britons’ EU rights

An Oxford professor who lives in France is due to receive a reply this month about his legal case which argued for all Britons born before Brexit, wherever they live, to maintain EU citizenship.

Brexit: second home-owners campaign for long stays

A campaign by holiday home-owners, campervan enthusiasts, and others who enjoy long visits to France is gaining support after lobbying MPs.

‘It’s looking very promising’ for Remain

Leading Remainer Professor AC Grayling was due to join British director David Wilkinson for a film screening and Q&A session in Dinard on September 28. Oliver Rowland spoke to them both a few days before the event

Cancel Brexit petition passes 3million signatures

UPDATE: Petition to revoke Article 50 and cancel Brexit has gathered more than 3million signatures

In Limbo Too goes on sale

A new not-for-profit book of testimonies of British people living in other EU countries about how Brexit is affecting their lives is now available.

Agreement reached on citizen rights after Brexit

Rights of 1million Britons living in EU27 countries, and 3million EU citizens in the UK guaranteed in breakthrough talks

New resolution on expat rights?

A new EU Parliament resolution, on expat rights, is likely to be debated during the session in Strasbourg from September 11 to 14.

Slow road to Brexit

I have just become a great-great-uncle and so welcome to the planet, baby Josephine! The birth was signalled by relatives in England as ‘7 lbs, 5 oz’. We should remind ourselves that Her Majesty’s government embarked well over 40 years ago upon a programme of metrication and subsequently allowed the process to run aground along the way.

Brexit talks

Brexit: new residency cards will be sent direct to your home

Brexit residency card website: when it will open

Brexit: "politicians must listen to businesses"

Brexit card site open in October: How to prove residency?

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