France Identité app to be extended to all residency card holders
The system is only available for French citizens, but plans are in place to extend the service to everyone with a card
At present, France Identité is for French citizens only
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It is hoped that by the end of this year non-French people with a French residency card will be able to use the France Identité application – which should in turn allow them to also use the service FranceConnect+ where sites propose this.
France Identité is a way of proving your identity for official procedures and can also be used to store your carte Vitale health card and driving licence details digitally. At present it is only for French citizens.
As mentioned, it is also one way to sign into sites that ask for FranceConnect+, a version of the FranceConnect online sign-in service that is described as integrating an advanced electronic signature.
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One site that has caused frustration for users not able to access this is procedures.inpi.fr, for business formalities, which invites people to use either this or La Poste Identité Numérique – the latter only being available to French citizens or foreigners with the 10-year residency card. Information on the Inpi site however, currently states that key formalities may be undertaken by creating an Inpi Connect account on the site itself.
Meanwhile, if you use the standard FranceConnect buttons to sign into various official websites, we note that there is now an additional ‘partner’ organisation to choose from: TrustMeid.io.
You only need a smartphone for this (but you do also need to have been registered with French social security at some point via work and/or healthcare).
‘Mobile Connect et Moi’ (a service Orange phone users could access) is no longer listed as a partner.
