Immigration

[andrewducker]

Leaving asylum to one side for a moment as a special case:
[Poll #1558346]

Comments

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

They keep telling me that because I didn't do a year in the French army in my 20s that I'm fucked.

[andrewducker]

Good Lord. Did they even ask you to?

I hadn't realised that France used to have military service.

Ok, yes, that sucks.

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

When I was about 23 or so they sent me a letter saying I'd have to do a year in their military service before I was 25 or lose all French rights.

I checked with a lawyer who told me that if I joined the French military the American government could prosecute me for serving in a foreign army.

[seph-hazard.livejournal.com]

*head/desk*

My god, that's stupid.

[momentsmusicaux.livejournal.com]

Yes but military service has been abolished since!

It was still in force when I would have been eligible (I see you're 5 years older than me), but I got around it by not living in France. I had to get my uni to sign a piece of paper saying I was studying in London. Then there was some deal about how for the next x years (10?) I'd not be able to live in France for more than a few months a year without being liable for it.

I don't know which 10 years you were in France but there should be room to wangle surely?

[bart-calendar.livejournal.com]

I've been in France since I was 31.