UK passport holders visiting France as tourists or private visitors (staying with family or friends) for a period of less than 90 days do not at present require a visa.
However, they are required to have the following documentation and they may be required to show all or some of it on entry into France.
A valid passport issued less than 10 years before and valid for at least 3 months after the envisaged departure date;
Proof of accommodation covering the whole duration of the stay (hotel reservation and/or certificate of staying with a relative validated in the town hall (Attestation d'accueil));
Sufficient financial means. The means of subsistence shall be assessed according to the duration and purpose of the stay and by reference to the average prices for accommodation and food in the Member States;
Your return ticket or the financial means to acquire one at the envisaged return date;
You must have an insurance certificate covering all medical and hospital expenses for which you may be liable for the duration of your stay in France, as well as medical repatriation costs and expenses in the event of death.
With regard to 'sufficient funds' the following levels apply
If you are staying in a hotel, you will need to provide a hotel booking as well as a minimum amount per day of stay
65 euros per day of stay in the case of presentation of a hotel booking;
120 euros per day in the case of non-presentation of a hotel booking;
In the case of a partial hotel booking: 65 euros per day for the period covered by the booking and 120 euros per day for the remainder of the stay.
If you are hosted by an individual, you must provide a certificate (Attestation d'accueil) of staying with a relative validated in the town hall at the request of the person who invited you (note: at the border crossing you must also prove that you have, in addition to this certificate, a minimum amount per day of stay - this minimum amount is €32.50 per day).
Callistemon
I can remember being stuck for hours on a coach at the border between Spain and Gibraltar, where we'd intended to go just for the day.
Can't remember now what was going on, it was 1996
The border between Spain and Gibraltar is always hit and miss before, during and after membership of EU.
Sometimes we walked/drove straight through other times we have waited an hour or more.
I can remember being stuck for hours on a coach at the border between Spain and Gibraltar, where we'd intended to go just for the day.
Can't remember now what was going on, it was 1996
As UK is now on red list, the question no longer applies.
Stories of a girl here and there being badly treated always catch the media's attention, precisely because it isn't a good look. Apparently one naughty French girl having been refused entry to the UK for a 2 month "stage" (course) gained entry second time round by saying she was attending "meetings"!
The story of the Italian girl being imprisoned a couple of weeks ago certainly was all over the Italian media, got a paragraph in one or two papers here, but wasn’t a good look. If all Brits living in France have half a dozen friends and relatives that’s a lot of people who might be travelling. I can remember travelling through Germany pre EU and being held on a hot coach for several hours on the border , getting passports checked, searched etc. This must be the first time in history that we’ve signed a treaty to make things worse.
Elvis58
No, l will stay in this country and support our businesses first and foremost.Cannot for the life of me envisage going abroad ever again.
Why ever again ?
No not a u-turn Growstuff (and certainly not disarray). The "sufficient resources" bit has always been there and there is some evidence fron the Ministry of the Interior now that it may be sufficient. We need clarification and to be certain that border control will accept it, which I am sure we will get.
As nobody can come at the moment except in a dire emergency we have a bit of time.
We had hoped to get to England to see our family soon, but that isn't going to happen.
Elvis58
No, l will stay in this country and support our businesses first and foremost.Cannot for the life of me envisage going abroad ever again.
Well, that's fine, but what if you have family living abroad?
No, l will stay in this country and support our businesses first and foremost.Cannot for the life of me envisage going abroad ever again.
accueil (typo)
Are they in disarray?
Mamie
It now looks as if the attestation d'acceuil to stay in a private home might not be needed if you have proof of income to give you 120€ a day for the duration of your stay. It is not clear yet and until we have clarification from the French and British Embassies it can neither be confirmed or denied.
The information in the OP is taken from the regulations for third country nationals and is correct.
It does not apply to Australians etc because they have visas and British visitors are not required to have visas.
This rule about the change in status to third country nationals since Brexit. It has not been dreamt up to annoy the British.
Do you have any source that the French government has done a U-turn on the "attestation d'acceueil"?
This is still on the French Interior Ministry's website:
www.demarches.interieur.gouv.fr/particuliers/attestation-accueil
Or family who live there.
It’s so good to have info from posters who actually live in France, isn’t it ?
Bovvered?
Moi?
Why shouldn't I 'bother'. We often holiday in France, and have many friends and family who live there or have second-homes- and they introduced us to Connexion. Read on line- full of great info. Why would it bother you, more to the point?
Mawbe, Connexion was certainly around when I lived in France 20 or so years ago. It used to be a bit like a useful idiots' guide (in English) to living in the country and had lots of adverts for translators, builders and removal companies. Many friends still rely on it for their information but I would agree, its accuracy made need checking.
My DH was a fan as he didn't read French.
Never having heard of Connexion, I googled it and was interested to learn the following:
The Connexion French News and Views in English
French daily news headlines and information for residents, second homeowners and visitors in France.
Not forming part of its target readership I wonder what its value is, particularly if the veracity of its pronouncements is so suspect.
A bit like some of the online version of some tabloids perhaps?
Wonder why you bother with it Kali2.
I think it was Mamie who does live in France who said “I will have to see it somewhere other than The Connexion before I believe it! “
you also now have to quarantine for 10 days!
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Me neither Callistemon sometimes packets of salt are needed on GN.
Which is why I wrote that... as said above by lemongrove, holiday makers will vote with their feet, especially as the UK's reputation has taken a real hit recently, and stories about EU visitors being arrested and incarcerated at border, have gone round the Internet and the EU Press.
Is that fake news too, though?
I never trust anything I read on GN or other social media without checking.
This thread is proof of that.
lemongrove says ''As others say, there are so many other countries all wanting to welcome back British tourists, that any country that makes things too difficult will lose out, as holiday makers vote with their feet.''
not sure how well you have been following this thread, but the information given in the OP, which was all over the Internet and Connexion newspaper and site, seems to have been innacurate. In the meantime, the UK (well Ms PP) has decided to actually do this for EU visitors. Which is why I wrote that... as said above by lemongrove, holiday makers will vote with their feet, especially as the UK's reputation has taken a real hit recently, and stories about EU visitors being arrested and incarcerated at border, have gone round the Internet and the EU Press.
MerylStreep
Paperbackwriter
You quote one incident. I can’t count how many trips I made to the France, Holland, Belgium, Italy, Spain, before we went into the EEC
Me too, without any problems.
What LePen lovers Welshwife ? I haven’t seen any mention of her or her Party on this thread, so why say it I wonder.
It seems that visitors from the UK who are staying with family in France are affected more than tourists staying in hotels.
Someone’s not heard of the “hostile environment”.
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