Hi folks,
I'm hoping you can give me a steer based on your experience or common sense. Disclaimer, Uk residents, I am an Irishman, living in Ireland, with an irish passport. Feel free to throw in your six pence worth but it might be best if you don't invest too much time advising me on what uk passport holders can expect. Thanks.
Myself and herself are booked to go to Paris on the 24th Feb for 5 nights. I am trying to figure out if we will be let in. We are both double vaxxed and boosted.
I got covid on Monday 7th and I'm still sick. I can apply for the covid recovery cert on Friday the 18th and were it just me traveling, this would be sufficient to get in to France. We will have to sign a declaration when we get to france:
SWORN UNDERTAKING TO COMPLY WITH RULES FOR ENTRY
INTO METROPOLITAN FRENCH TERRITORY
(From green list countries)
This statement shall be presented to the transport companies before boarding and to the border control authorities.
The measures applied to vaccinated adults are extended under the same conditions to their accompanying minors, whether vaccinated or not.
To be completed by the traveller:
I, the undersigned,
Mr/Mrs: ...
Born on:
Nationality:
Residing at:
Initial place of origin (city/country):
Final destination (city/country):
I hereby declare on my honour that I have not had any of the following symptoms during the last 48 hours:
• Fever or chills ;
• Cough or aggravation of my usual cough;
• Unusual fatigue;
• Unusual shortness of breath when I speak or make the slightest effort;
• Unusual muscle aches and/or pains;
• Unusual headaches;
• Loss of taste or smell;
• Unusual diarrhoea.
I hereby declare on my honour that I have no knowledge of having been in contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 during the last fourteen days prior to departure.
I hereby agree on my honour to take an antigen test or biological examination that may be conducted on arrival in metropolitan France (traveller aged above 12 years).
Done in ____________________, on ____ / ____ / 2021
Signature
So she will have to declare that she has been in contact with me and I've been sick. Can anyone tell me for certain if that will make the french refuse us entry? It does not state anywhere I've looked that this is grounds for refusal of entry. However, I cannot sign that form because one or both of us would have been in contact with a covid positive person in the previous 14 days. What happens if you don't sign the form? Do you get interviewed and tested?
Also, if she tests positive for covid in the next day (she is having a pcr test today as she has a new cough), she will not have a covid recovery cert in time to travel. I will have to put down on the declaration that I've been in contact with her. If you have had covid recently do you NEED a recovery cert to get in?
Can anyone put a bit of black and white on this for us please?! I'm finding it very opaque and the rules seem to be tied up with facilitating entry to people who are not vaccinated. This is fair enough but I'm not willing to turn up and just hope they will let us in and I'm a bit frustrated the rules are not clearer.
Or is another way of looking at this, we are both boosted and providing herself is over the covid before we go, then the worst that can happen is we are asked to do a covid test upon arrival? I know how bureaucratic the french can be so I think I've grounds to be wary.
I apologise for the long rambling post but I feel like shit, we've been planning this trip since November, we have both managed to avoid covid for two years and yet here we are.
Thanks for any light you can shine in this darkness
Owen.
I'm hoping you can give me a steer based on your experience or common sense. Disclaimer, Uk residents, I am an Irishman, living in Ireland, with an irish passport. Feel free to throw in your six pence worth but it might be best if you don't invest too much time advising me on what uk passport holders can expect. Thanks.
Myself and herself are booked to go to Paris on the 24th Feb for 5 nights. I am trying to figure out if we will be let in. We are both double vaxxed and boosted.
I got covid on Monday 7th and I'm still sick. I can apply for the covid recovery cert on Friday the 18th and were it just me traveling, this would be sufficient to get in to France. We will have to sign a declaration when we get to france:
SWORN UNDERTAKING TO COMPLY WITH RULES FOR ENTRY
INTO METROPOLITAN FRENCH TERRITORY
(From green list countries)
This statement shall be presented to the transport companies before boarding and to the border control authorities.
The measures applied to vaccinated adults are extended under the same conditions to their accompanying minors, whether vaccinated or not.
To be completed by the traveller:
I, the undersigned,
Mr/Mrs: ...
Born on:
Nationality:
Residing at:
Initial place of origin (city/country):
Final destination (city/country):
I hereby declare on my honour that I have not had any of the following symptoms during the last 48 hours:
• Fever or chills ;
• Cough or aggravation of my usual cough;
• Unusual fatigue;
• Unusual shortness of breath when I speak or make the slightest effort;
• Unusual muscle aches and/or pains;
• Unusual headaches;
• Loss of taste or smell;
• Unusual diarrhoea.
I hereby declare on my honour that I have no knowledge of having been in contact with a confirmed case of COVID-19 during the last fourteen days prior to departure.
I hereby agree on my honour to take an antigen test or biological examination that may be conducted on arrival in metropolitan France (traveller aged above 12 years).
Done in ____________________, on ____ / ____ / 2021
Signature
So she will have to declare that she has been in contact with me and I've been sick. Can anyone tell me for certain if that will make the french refuse us entry? It does not state anywhere I've looked that this is grounds for refusal of entry. However, I cannot sign that form because one or both of us would have been in contact with a covid positive person in the previous 14 days. What happens if you don't sign the form? Do you get interviewed and tested?
Also, if she tests positive for covid in the next day (she is having a pcr test today as she has a new cough), she will not have a covid recovery cert in time to travel. I will have to put down on the declaration that I've been in contact with her. If you have had covid recently do you NEED a recovery cert to get in?
Can anyone put a bit of black and white on this for us please?! I'm finding it very opaque and the rules seem to be tied up with facilitating entry to people who are not vaccinated. This is fair enough but I'm not willing to turn up and just hope they will let us in and I'm a bit frustrated the rules are not clearer.
Or is another way of looking at this, we are both boosted and providing herself is over the covid before we go, then the worst that can happen is we are asked to do a covid test upon arrival? I know how bureaucratic the french can be so I think I've grounds to be wary.
I apologise for the long rambling post but I feel like shit, we've been planning this trip since November, we have both managed to avoid covid for two years and yet here we are.
Thanks for any light you can shine in this darkness
Owen.