Convocation OFII?

Perhaps you should be grateful that you were given a rdv and hire a babysitter for one day? There is a reason that many of the French resent immigrants…

@hbataille

I don't know if this e-mail still works,  but it could be another way to make contact:

toulouse@ofii.fr

@hbataille

I have seen this response to a question just like yours on the site

https://demarchesadministratives.fr/que … et-absence :

Bonjour,

J'accuse réception de votre demande.

Vous devez envoyer un courrier en recommandé ou lettre suivie à l'OFII de Toulouse. Afin de leur signifier votre indisponibilité pour raison familiale.

Vous serez alors convoqué à une date ultérieure.

Je reste à votre disposition pour toutes questions,

Bien à  vous

@bentfamilymom thank you for the help and understanding.  I could think of a few better reasons that the french resent immigrants.  I'm an American living here for one year and my husband is french.  Our kids are bilingual and we have an immense love for french language and culture.  I don't think the French resent that kind of attitude.

I don't know how any of this relates to alleged French resentment of immigrants (a problem not unique to France by any means), but I do know that scheduling an appointment with a government office in France (or anywhere else, really)  is not the same as setting up a vaccination at Walgreens or booking a restaurant reservation. With any kind of government appointment -- especially a face-to-face interview like this -- you take what you get and work with it. They're just not set up to take into account anyone's personal situation, and they especially can't be expected to factor in things like the fact that on Wednesdays most kids are not in school or that someone may have only one car and have a lot of kids' activities to coordinate.

@chaslaw fair enough, I understand they can't factor in everyone's situation.  What I find incredible is the complete inability to contact someone.  And I was simply curious about the consequences for not coming.

@AARO health Merci beaucoup pour les infos.

@chaslaw

If you read the incomplete msg from Bentfamilymom, there is the antecedent for the resentment issue being raised.

If you read my msg, it indicates there IS allowance for people not being at the beck and call of the administration.

The bureaucratic interactions cannot be tailor-made, but there's no reason to excuse administrative arrogance.

There are two conflicting realities to take into account.

1) The administration has many ways to be consumer-friendly when it wants to. An excellent example is the history of cartes de sejour. Originally, people were treated as cattle, having to line up before dawn and wait hours. Then came the civilized reform of making appointments. The real change came with Covid. Instead of two appointments, which still required 2-hour waits, the deposition of renewal requests were moved on line and required no appointment for normal  cases, and picking up cards can now be done in 5 minutes without waiting. So, somehow, this possibility was waiting in the wings, but it took a health disaster to put it into place.

2) The bureaucracy is being deliberately starved of experienced personnel and budget, like the health system and other services.

@AARO health Those are very interesting observations, AARO. I well remember the cattle-at-dawn period, but I applied for my first carte de séjour back in 1976. It's great that things have progressed, although, as you imply, it's sad that it took a global health crisis to produce real change.

Governments are suffering all around the world as politicians spend less on services and more on everything from defense (sadly necessary) to pork-barrel projects for their own constituencies to corporate kick-backs to lining their own pockets. Sorry for my cynicism.

@hbataille

They don’t reply to phone calls email them to te them you cant make it and need to reschedule. That’s what we had to do. If you can, request an autmatic received and read receipt for your email.

@hbataille

Here’s the email address to advise you cant make it :

planification.toulouse@ofii.fr

Here’s what I wrote in my email on 8 June this year FYI. I requested received and read receipts.  I also had to verify my email address before it was made available to OFII staff.

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Bonjour Monsieur , Madame ,

J'ai reçu un e-mail avec une date de rendez-vous à l'OFII le 29 juin à 10h00 .

Je ne suis pas disponible pour ce rendez-vous .

Je serai disponible entre le :

mardi 18 juillet 2023 et le vendredi 25 août 2023

Je serai à Lyon avec un housesit pour soigner deux petits animaux aux dates fixés .

Serait-il possible de reporter ce rendez-vous à l'OFII à une date à laquelle je pourrai y assister s'il vous plait ?

J'ai aussi un rendez-vous chez le médecin le mercredi 28 juin à 15h45 , auquel je peux assister.

Cordialement,

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