Prior to Brexit, France's visa workers in the UK only had to deal with requests from British residents of non-British, non-EU nationalities, such as for example, a Chinese person living in London who wants to spend a year in France. They now process applications from all Bri...
France is part of the Schengen Area, the zone of 26 European countries which operate an ‘open borders’ policy. As there are no internal border controls between these countries, this means that a ‘French’ visa is essentially a ‘Schengen Visa’ granting you entrance to ...
After lodging your visa application online, you will then be asked to make an appointment for an interview at a centre in London, Manchester or Edinburgh. These are run by a company calledTLS Contact, which is contracted by the French government to handle visa applications from the UK. Both ...
Once TLS have submitted your application to the consulate and a decision has been reached, you need to return to the TLS office to pick up your passport, which will (hopefully) have a visa stamp in it. Alternatively, TLS operate a courier service. It is possible, after you have made you...