This past weekend, I was on a simple Schengen to Non-Schengen connection through CDG back to to the U.S. To preface this, I have a US passport but also have residency in said Schengen country. In fact, I have no French residency or any papiers for France - this was a simple Schengen to Non-Schengen connection through CDG. At border control to exit Europe (between Terminal 2F and 2E), I was summarily denied due to the new motif imperieux regulation! She refused to let me through, saying that because I was a resident in the Schengen area, I could not exit France for a non-EU country due to the new law (even though I am not a French citizen or resident!). I was quite flabbergasted but had no choice but to go back and contact an AF agent. Unfortunately the AF agent wasn't too knowledgeable either and told me I had no choice but to reclaim my checked bag and head either back to my resident Schengen country or I guess I could stay in France?? (!). So I purchased a ticket back to my resident Schengen country and then another ticket from there to the US (since we have no such exit controls there).

Delta CDG was apparently waiting for me to show for the CDG-JFK flight and texted/called me incessantly. When I told them of the whole story, they said they would check and get back to me. An hour later, the wonderful DL agent came back and said they had talked to border police and that I should not have had an issue (and that the police was wrong). Delta then rebooked me on a later AF CDG-JFK flight, and then escorted me through AF check in and through immigration control...However they said they had to rush as the police supervisor was going home for the day soon! The latter part has me wondering what the real story is with simple transfers at CDG for non-EU nationals but an EU/Schengen (not France) resident since it appears that a policy does not seem to be widely understood or known by the actual working border police agents? As an FYI, I had the right Covid PCR test papers, had a valid US passport which would allow me US entry....I don't think France has the authority to tell a non-French citizen/resident they cannot leave CDG (technically at that point, I was in the transfer zone, and I had not actually entered France!).

Well, chalk it up to another unpleasant CDG transfer experience I guess!