Hello Forum, My wife has applied for her first titre de séjour in France. She now went back to her home country. She applied for a return visa and successfully obtained. Now her récépissé is expired. She is planning to come to France after she get the message from préfecture. Will that be an...

Hello everyone, I am a PhD student in France trying to renew my VLS–TS (visa de long séjour valant titre de séjour) scientifique-chercheur. I went to the prefecture twice. Initially I was told I needed to return with birth certificate translated into French. The second time my documents were...

Hello everyone! I've just recently moved to Paris for my studies and the French system has been so new and different for me. I've been to 3 different prefectures and after weeks of "I don't speak english" (along with a really bi***y face) I finally understood that I have to go on monday and...

Hi, I'm living in Dijon France and in the process of trying to renew my carte de sejour. I went to the prefecture in February with my file for renewal, which they accepted, (after hours in the waiting room and several days of needing to come back early enough to get a ticket for the wait) and...

Hi forum, I am an american citizen who started living and working in France three months ago. I came on the three-month long stay visa and applied for my carte de sejour. I received my recepisse de demande de carte de sejour just today from the prefecture but people at my work are concerned...