Administrative aspects and residence permit

You must have a residence permit that is valid for at least the duration of your studies.

An identity card is sufficient for European Union nationals as well as Icelandic, Norwegian and Swiss nationals. For all other nationalities, a long-stay visa is required for stays of more than three months.

To obtain a long-stay student visa, you must:

• Get a “Preregistration application” on our Website by clicking here.

• Return the copy of the official translation of your secondary school certificate (or a university diploma) by fax (+ 33 1 44 07 97 14), e-mail (scan of the diploma - ) or postal mail , to Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne, 47 rue des Ecoles, 75005 Paris, France (English, Spanish, German, or Portuguese diploma don’t need to be translate).

• We will send you a preregistration certificate so that you can apply for a visa from the French Consulate or Embassy in your home country.

• To facilitate administrative formalities, ensure that you come to France with an original copy of your birth certificate* translated into French by a certified translator. Translations are costly and the deadlines long.

• The same applies to nationals of Germany, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Spain, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxemburg, the Netherlands, Portugal, the United Kingdom or Sweden who can obtain their European social security card in their country of origin.

You can then enter France and register for the course you have chosen.

To help you to obtain the residence permit with a “student” visa, the Cours de Civilisation Française de la Sorbonne’s help service offers assistance with administrative formalities:

• Administrative assistance service (Préfecture, visa, etc.)
  Estrapade Center
  16 bis, rue de l’Estrapade - 75005 Paris
  Open from Monday to Wednesday from 9am to 12.30am and from 2pm to 4pm
  Tel.: +33 (0)1 44 07 55 92
  e-mail :

For any questions relating to visas and administrative formalities, you can also consult the French Foreign Ministry’s Web site.

Continue his studies in France

Although not mandatory, it is strongly advised by the diplomatic services to have a global project in France:

• Improvement in French language

• High school studies

Our orientation service can assist you in your choices and your application of pre-registration. The CCFS have signed agreements to facilitate projects in:

• Law, Political Science, Economics and Management, Master of Banking Law, Master of International Affairs: FACO (Faculty autonomous and co-managed)

• Art market, communication and multimedia publishing, mediation and cultural production: IESA (Graduate Institute of Arts)
  
  
  

* the birth certificate is very important for the students who would like to reside in France for a long time . One can need his birth certificate to subscribe to a sickness insurance, for example, but it is not needed to be registered in our courses.

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