Renewal of visa

One year has passed...
The day has come for us to go renew my visa expiring end March
I was to make the online appointment about 4 months before my visa expired
and ended up with the appointment a day before we fly
Hoping that all will be fine and our plans will not be affected

So, we are to go the the police headquarter 
long before, i had read online about this scary procedures
If you miss any documents,
If you forget to photocopy any document, etc etcs
the typical french administration will require you to take another appointment..
The infamous queue where people start queuing up at 6am even
if their appointment is at 830am....

Anyway, we prepared the documents from January
and based on the list of required documents,
it seemed that husband didnt need to provide anything except his ID

Our appointment was 9am
we arrived at 840am and there was a long queue just to get in
Lucky the security checks was fast and we were in about 10mins time
Thereafter, we were asked to go to area F
and we see a long queue of people, so we took a waiting number
we had 034 and current no was 008
After about 10mins of wait, we realised we were to go the room beside
and not followed this queue
which is to collect the visa
well, we will need to this when we come to collect in few months

In the room, we had a new waiting number 015
and current no was 010
After about 10mins, it was our turn!
We start giving our required documents and photocopies..
all was fine till:

Electricity bills
We printed the wrong electricity bills
France has the 3months old rule
and we printed the one for January 2014!!
I guess both of us were blur thinking is still 2014
lucky, husband has a copy of letter sent by the electricity company
he accidently left in his bag when he opened the mailbox a day ago
although it was not actually the correct document
but we submit it
well, they actually have a photocopy machine

Bank statements
The list didnt state what kind of bank document was required
so we only had the contract of our joint account
and the joint account statement of December 2014
Apparently they require the monthly statement for the past 12 months!

Husband's documents
Not written in the list, they request for husband's:
- Income tax reciept
- emplyment letter
- Payslips
which we never prepared...

By then, we are thinking that we will be coming back for another appointment
the staff collect whatever we have and asked us to take a seat
they will send all the documents to the office to verify
and later, she will let us know whether the documents will be accepted
or another documents will be required

so, we end up waiting for about an hour
when we returned to the staff
she just returned me an extra photo i gave
asked me to sign on 2 documents
sticking my photos on the documents
with no expression or words
and after, I received my temporary visa till June!
My visa will be ready in mid april for collection...
and she had us a collection paper which states the amount to pay on that day...

and thats it!
I officially got my visa renewed!
Husband and i were complaining a little
like the last 10 mins were like suspense
because after waiting for 1 hour, the staff didnt event say whether it was alright
or we need to come back with more documents
till the last 30s

But i was telling husband that it probably worked because im holding SG passport
I think if im holding a another passport and short of so much documents
that cant prove we have a proper salary
We surely need to return again
In any case, all is done!!


-last blog post from paris before my flight-