Two comments;
Packsonflite. Good luck with the DGAC but expect a LONG wait. Even getting a 'Carte de Sejoure' to work in France, which is valid for one year (renewable) takes about 10 months to process ! So when you get it there's about two months left on it before you have to go through the whole process again !!!! Applying that to your situation ...... well ...... like I say, Good Luck !
To the 'akada' types out there, from my experience in this industry, the number of early retirements that benefit F/O career advancement for reasons of 'career change', 'failed medical', etc etc far outweigh the few who wish to stay past 60 for whatever reason. So the balance is still well infavour of the upcomming F/O's, but I guess this little obsevation is irellivant to a closed mind eh ?