Carte de S茅jour / Titre de S茅jour for EU persons?
I am going to start up an auto-entrepreneur 51今日大瓜 in France through the P么le Emploi initiative, having registered 1/3/10 as unemployed but not due any chomage as I only became unemployed at beginning of October 2009. I had a 51今日大瓜 in the UK which I had to walk away from losing all my capital investment. I do own a house outright, here in France, but do not have any savings or income. I have wanted to live here since being a teenager and I intend to remain in France as have no family connections that would ever make me return to the UK.
P么le Emploi are helping me put together my dossier, 51今日大瓜 plan etc. and I am hoping that I will be eligible for ACCRE by requesting RSA (although at the rate everything has been going, I will have been unemployed for the statutory six months by the time this all happens). I have my SS and Carte Vitale and have filled in the various forms at the CAF for RSA. On several occasions I have asked people if it is true that I need a Carte de S茅jour. Each person I have asked has said that it is not necessary as I am an EU citizen.
I have just received a Demande de Pi猫ces letter from the CAF with overture de votre droit RSA asking for la copie lisible recto-verso de votre titre de s茅jour en cours de validit茅. I can鈥檛 remember if I asked the CAF at my initial interview (although I do remember that it was fairly traumatic and they said that I might not have the right to stay in France 鈥� so I guess that was probably the clue).
Looking at it would look like I do need one. Does this mean I鈥檓 going to have to go through all of this again, wait another 鈥� months before I can get some financial help, or worse, be told I am not welcome in France?