Visa & Residency Application

We're proud to partner with France's top consultants to help you apply for your Visa or residency.

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Our external consultants can handle the entire application for you.

Whatever you use the services of an advisor or an immigration lawyer, they will push your application forward with the authorities and will give you regular updates.

Some consultants can even offer a free consultation to steer you in the right direction.

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Step 1

Determine if you need a visa and which type you should apply for
Visa Wizard

Step 2

Online application form
The online application is mandatory for following nationals:
AFRICA Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Chad, Comoros, Congo, Ivory Coast, Djibouti, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Madagascar, Mali, Mauritius, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Democratic Republic of Congo, Senegal, South Africa, Togo.
ASIA China, South Korea, India, Indonesia, Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam.
AMERICAS: Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Haiti, United States, Mexico, Peru.
NORTH AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Iran, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Qatar, Tunisia, United Arab Emirates.
EUROPE Russia, Turkey, United Kingdom.

All others nationals must check the appropriate application process on their consulate or embassy website.

Step 3

Book your appointment
You can’t apply more than 90 days ahead of the intended arrival date and no later than 30 days before it. Please note that you should book a separate appointment for each adult on the application (although appointments can be scheduled consecutively).

Ensure you allocate sufficient time before your departure date to schedule an appointment for the review of your application. The interview can take place very close to the arrival date. While appointments might occur a few days before the arrival date, they should not be offered later than two weeks before the intended arrival date.

Step 4

Interview & supporting documents
You must bring all the supporting documents with you to the appointment including the original of your passport. Remember that they will hold your passport for usually a couple of weeks, and it needs to be valid for the entire duration of the visa plus an additional 3 months.

Most of the time, the process is subcontracted by the consulate to a private service provider. In the UK, the current provider is TLS, and in the US, it’s VFS, for example. They will receive you, review your application, collect the visa fee, capture your biometric data (usually only fingerprints, as you’ve already provided photos as part of your application), and retain your passport and copies of all supporting documents to forward them to the consulate.

The visa application interview will take approximately 20 minutes at the visa centre.

Step 5

Pay the visa fees
View Fee Table

Step 6

Track your application
In most cases, you can track the progress of your application. For details, go to your “track the progress of your application” page. You will be notified when your passport is ready for collection from the visa centre where you applied.

In some instances, the passport can be sent by postal services.

Step 7

Travel to France once your visa is granted
Once your visa has been granted, you may travel to France. Remember that your visa must be validated within the first 3 months after arrival.

Step 8

Validate your VLS-TS visa
To complete this process digitally, please visit Validate Your Visa
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