Visa Centers of France in Moscow

Paris is considered the most on Earth, so in love with all over the world are trying to get into this wonderful city at least once and admire the beauty of the Eiffel Tower or a French state refers to special demands and severity to its visa policy. In order for Russian tourists to visit this European country, you need to get a Schengen visa, submitting documents for its design to France's visa centers at their place of registration.

Where can I make a French visa?

Many people who have never encountered the procedure for getting a pass to enter the Schengen zone, do not know where you initially need to go and where to start. First, it is necessary to collect all the necessary documents and, posting, to attribute them to the specialized visa centers of France, located in Russia in the amount of eighteen pieces. Each region and registered in it have their own authorized by the French state to help Russian citizens in the design of a Schengen visa.

For residents of the capital, there are two ways to obtain permission to enter this European country. They can contact the following institutions: Embassy of France, and choose an optimal option for yourself.

Advantages and disadvantages

One of the consulate minuses is that the reception needs to be recorded in several months and to submit documents personally. But if you make a French visa in this way, then you will not need to carry extra spending on the mediator. And you can also get documents to my wife either a husband, presenting a power of attorney written by hand.

France's visa centers in Moscow have several advantages. First, the undoubted advantage is that it is not necessary to stand in large queues, a maximum of ten minutes. For consultation in the company you can go at least every day and receive answers to exciting questions. And also, if you need to make copies of any documents, then the visa centers of France specifically for the convenience of its customers have provided copy machines or a computer with a printer to print something from removable media. Another advantage of this institution can be considered that it is possible to place the delivery of a passport by a courier, having previously coordinated this procedure.

The only minus of this company is the need for additional costs of paying the services of the center acting as an intermediary.

Required documents: List

The first thing to be done before contacting the visa centers of France to download the questionnaire from the consulate of the French state and fill it. This can be done in electronic form.

Then collect all the necessary documents, such as:

• medical insurance;
• plane tickets to both ends;
• hotel reservation if there is an invitation to France;
• or studies;
• passport and copies of a civil passport;
• it is also no need to forget about discharge from the bank confirming financial consistency with an indication of any amount, since the Consulate of the French Republic does not specify the necessary amount of income, which will be enough to travel to the country;
• photo in the number of two pieces, they must have a blue background and size 3.5x4.5 centimeters.

If documents are submitted for a visa only for themselves, then in the case of any inconsistencies or problems with a photo, the visa centers of France make it possible to read inside their institution during a visit. But if the visa pass is drawn up on close relatives, it will be more appropriate to take a flash drive with snapshots made in the photoabeel to correct the comments to the photos. However, since September 2015, a decree was published that the applicant should initially appear independently for the passage of the biometric procedure, and then all the necessary and missing documents can bring relatives according to the prescribed power of attorney.

Before a visit to the center it is better to pre-sign up by phone or online.

Application of a juvenile visa

In the event that children are going to travel with one of the parents, then the other, which does not participate in this trip, will need a document confirming the consent to the removal of a child from Russia.

If the journey is going to make the whole family in full, then in this case the visa period on a minor member will strictly correspond to the timing of the trip specified in the questionnaire. It can be extended if you bring a notarized permission from both parents for a longer period of visa.

If visa pass is obtained for multiple travels in a short time, without providing power of attorney from both parents, the visa to the child will be issued only for the first trip.

Contact details of institutions

The visa procedure is better to pass by contacting the official visa centers of France in Moscow. The addresses they look like this: the prospect of the world, house 64, the third floor, or the embassy, \u200b\u200blocated on the street Big Yakimanke, house 45.

You can apply a visit to the office of the authorized French Republic of the Intermediary Company, pre-postponed by phone numbers: +7 (495) 504-37-05 or +7 (499) 681-13-60. Her work time is every day from 9:00 to 16:00, except for weekends.

To the French Embassy, \u200b\u200bthe record is maintained at the following telephone number: +7 (495) 937-15-00.