Carte de séjour
French residency permit
Required for stays over 90 days in any 180. Apply at the prefecture for your destination département. We time the move so your goods arrive after your appointment is confirmed.
Northolt → France
Removals to France, sorted.
Door-to-door from Northolt to Paris, Provence, the Dordogne, Brittany, and the Côte d'Azur. Carte de séjour and customs paperwork all sorted, in one place.
The corridor
France, the route we run most often.
France is the route we run most often. Northolt to a Channel boat is straightforward — what shapes a move is the destination side. Which Provençal villages have unsealed access roads, which Parisian arrondissements need a permit chain through the mairie, which Dordogne stone houses sit a kilometre down an unmade lane. We have built up the contacts for all of it.
After the Channel, the move becomes paperwork. France runs on the carte de séjour, the avis d'imposition, and the right form filed in the right order. We file EORI and ToR1 at the UK end, douanes paperwork at the entry point. The bilingual destination coordinator handles the gardien, the syndic, the regional courier — calls you should not have to make in your second language on delivery day.
What's included
The whole France move, on one quote.
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Door-to-door collection from your UB-postcode address
Surveyor across Northolt, Greenford, South Ruislip, Yeading, Perivale. Same crew loads in Northolt and meets the destination team at the French frontier.
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Bilingual French coordinator
Native French-speaking. Handles gardiens, syndics, regional couriers. Calls a household should not have to make in their second language.
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EORI and ToR1 filing
Both filed on your behalf with HMRC. Free; we sort the EORI application if you do not already have one.
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French douanes paperwork
Bilingual customs inventory and entry-point declaration — sorted at the French frontier, not your doorstep.
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Goods-in-transit cover
All-risks underwritten cover from Northolt depot to French keys.
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Storage either side
Indoor depot in Northolt; partner depots in Lille, Lyon, Marseille for flex on either end.
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Custom packing for fragile items
Pianos, art, glass, library books, wine — itemised at survey and packed accordingly.
Routes & cities
Where we go in France.
- Paris
The 75 to 78 départements. Permit-restricted zones in the centre — the Marais, the Quais, parts of the 1st and 4th. We coordinate the parking-permit chain with the mairie.
- Provence
Aix, Avignon, the Lubéron villages. Stone steps, narrow lanes, the occasional crane lift for a piano.
- Dordogne
Périgord stone houses, rural drop-points. We carry our own generator and ramps.
- Brittany
Saint-Malo, Rennes, Vannes. Where the schedule favours it, the Portsmouth or Plymouth ferry replaces the Dover crossing.
- Côte d'Azur
Nice, Cannes, Antibes. Gated developments; concierge clearance handled by the destination team.
Paperwork glossary
What you'll need.
EORI number
UK Economic Operator Registration
Free from HMRC for any UK-EU goods movement. We file the application if you do not already have one.
ToR1 declaration
Transfer of Residence relief
Most household goods owned more than six months move duty-free. Filed by us at the UK end.
Avis d'imposition
French tax notice
Some long-let landlords ask to see one. New arrivals will not have one yet — speak to a French notaire on substitute documentation.
Bilingual customs inventory
Inventory document
Itemised list with values, in English and French. Prepared from the surveyor's notes.
On price
A surveyor visits your Northolt-area property in person before any figure goes on paper. The written quote is one number: transit, customs, insurance, door-to-door handling. The variables are volume, distance, access at both ends, and whether the dates allow consolidated routing.
France FAQs
Questions, answered.
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Depends on the route, volume, and customs queue. The quote includes a likely window. Dover crossing from Northolt is the shortest leg; Provence and Côte d'Azur add the southern French stretch beyond it.
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No — that is yours to file at the prefecture. What we do is time the move so your goods arrive after your appointment is confirmed. No point delivering boxes to a property you are not yet free to occupy.
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Most household goods owned more than six months qualify for the EU's transfer-of-residence relief and move duty-free. We file the ToR1 with HMRC and the French equivalent on your behalf.
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Common in old village centres. We transfer to a smaller delivery vehicle on the village outskirts and finish the last mile by transit van. We flag the staging plan at survey.
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Yes. Indoor partner depots in Lille, Lyon, Marseille. Flexible duration; charged separately.
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Yes. Pianos travel in dedicated cradles with specialist movers; art ships in custom crates with art-grade wrapping. Both itemised in the quote.
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The bilingual destination coordinator. They brief the gardien — or syndic, regional courier — on access timing.
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Yes. Where the schedule favours it — Saint-Malo, Rennes, Vannes especially — the western ferry replaces the Dover crossing.
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Rarely happens because we file directly. If a query is raised, the destination coordinator handles it with the douanes officer. The lorry waits; you stay informed.