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French 'carte de séjour' concerns
My husband and I recently received our récipissés for our applications for cartes de séjour .
Despite providing our marriage certificate with a translation and evidence of our date of arrival in France, our récipissés record us as as being célibataires and arriving 00/00/2014. Is this a bug and has it happened to others?
Susan Tandy, by email
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