Here Also very informative and useful for travelers and business people is the website of the French Visa Center. And many tourists and travelers prefer to go there. Getting to it is very easy. Coming out of the subway, go down Marksistskaya street. Do you have left hand There will be a shopping center, a cafe "Yolki-Palki".
The Visa Application Center is located at:
st. Marxist
house number 3,
Embedding #2
Metro Marksistskaya.
It is only 500 meters from the metro station to the porch of the visa center. On the way to it, you will come across insurance agents who vying with each other offer to take out insurance for a foreign trip. At the entrance, the security guard will look at your electronic registration. And if you did not make an appointment on the site, then just show your passport.
The center has two halls. And even if you come without an appointment, you will wait no more than half an hour in a live queue.
All documents, of course, must be completed in advance. The questionnaire can be downloaded from the official website. You can also find examples of filling out the questionnaire in French and in Russian.
The cost of services of the visa center of France quite acceptable. It is definitely cheaper to apply yourself than to use the services of an agency. The cost of a Schengen visa for citizens of Russia is 35 or 70 euro.
Opening hours of the visa application center of France from Monday to Friday from 9 am to 4 pm. Documents are issued from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. daily, except weekends. There are also weekends holidays, which you can learn about directly on the site itself. They are few, but they exist. And this is important for those who come to Moscow only for one day. Well, the working hours are standard for most Moscow organizations.
The embassy itself is located at a different address. There you can also get a list of documents required for obtaining a visa, you can sign up for submission of documents and track your passport from the visa application center to the embassy and back.
Reception of citizens is also open in some cities of Russia. For example.
St. Petersburg, st. Bolshaya Raznochinnaya, 16/7, shopping center "Chkalovsky", 3rd floor (entrance from Chkalovsky pr.). The Visa Application Center is open at this new address from 09:00 to 16:00.
Yekaterinburg, st. Kuibysheva 44, 2nd floor, business hotel "Panorama" (entrance from Belinsky street). Opening hours from 9 am to 4 pm. And the issuance and acceptance of documents takes place at this time from Monday to Friday.
At the Visa Application Center in Kazan it was also planned to serve customers opening a visa to France. But, but according to the information of the end of 2012, there is nothing yet.
In addition, there are no visa centers (namely France) in such large cities as Novosibirsk, Krasnodar, Rostov, Chelyabinsk, Odessa, Donetsk. You need to go and submit your dossier to the visa application center of France, to which you belong geographically.
Visa center in Kyiv in Ukraine:
Kyiv, st. Frunze 60 (Zavodskaya st. 8),
(Nearest metro station: "Tarasa Shevchenko"
Reception of documents and issuance of passports 8:30 - 15:30 from Monday to Friday
Embassy of France in Russia
Bolshaya Yakimanka, 45, Moscow, 115127, Russia
Metro station "Oktyabrskaya"
Tel. (00 7 495) 937-1500
Fax (00 7 495) 937-14-30
Visa Section of the Consulate General of France in Moscow
119049, Moscow, Kazansky lane, 10
Metro station "Oktyabrskaya" (radial).
Fax: (00 7 495) 937 15 06
Check the official website of the embassy for any changes
You can also download the list there. required documents to apply for a visa. When forming a package of documents, among other things, you must show copies of tickets or reservations for them. Those who are going to travel with a child must have permission to leave from both parents. If the parent is one, of course.
Visa Center Address: st. Prospekt Mira, 64, 3rd floor (metro station "Prospekt Mira").
Reception hours of the France Visa Application Center (excluding public holidays):
- submission: from Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 16:00;
- pickup: Monday to Friday from 09:00 to 18:00;
- no pre-registration required without fail;
- If you still want to sign up, please follow the link.
- electronic queue;
- inside the Visa Application Center it is forbidden to talk on mobile phone. When you sign in, put your device into silent mode. Familiarize yourself with the Visa Application Centre.
It's important to know
The French consulate is quite loyal to the citizens of the Russian Federation and in order to increase the country's tourist attractiveness, it often issues multiple-entry visas even during the initial application. This does not mean that multiple long-term visas issued to all applicants. If you have had visas to France in the last 3 years, then you have a very good chance of getting a new visa for up to 5 years. Of course, the result depends solely on the decision of the visa officer on an individual basis. According to the Consul General of France, in 65% of requests, applicants are issued multiple-entry visas, of which 20% are visas for 5 years. France is one of the most popular Schengen countries.
According to information from the French Consulate, applicants who have previously taken biometrics at any other consulate (except the French one) are advised to retake biometrics. This is due to a large number of technical errors due to poor-quality biometric data taken earlier.
In addition, all applicants who have any stamps after VIS in their passport (for example, VIS 0, VIS FP), necessary re-pass the biometrics procedure to obtain a French Schengen visa.
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Visa cost
Valid from 11.08.2017
35 euro- consular fee
- The consular fee is not charged for children under 6 years of age.
- The paid consular fee is non-refundable, regardless of the results of the consideration of the visa request.
29.5 euros– Service fee of the France Visa Application Centre:
- Payment is made in rubles at the internal exchange rate on the day of payment (in cash, as well as with Visa and MasterCard cards).
Terms of consideration
The standard term for consideration of a visa request is 4 -5 workers days. The consideration period can be up to 30 calendar days (extremely rare; possibly in relation to applicants who have previously been “noted” for violations visa regime or legislation).
Express consideration of a visa request when submitted through the Visa Application Center is not provided. However, if you submit documents 3 days (or less) before the trip, then you will be charged a double consular fee - 70 euro. At the same time, such submission will not be considered “express”, and the Visa Application Center will definitely not guarantee the timely return of the passport. If you require an expedited visa application, please contact Consular section of the embassy.
Submission procedure
About how not to prepare for applying for a visa, as well as about the most common causes refusal you can read in detail.
Documents are accepted on the basis of the requirements of the Consulate General of France in Moscow.
An application for a visa can be submitted no earlier than 3 months before the intended date of departure.
Please read the following information before recording.
For applicants who require biometrics:
- The applicant must personally come to the submission of documents and undergo biometrics.
- Applicants between the ages of 12 and 18 must submit documents in the presence of a parent or official representative (guardian).
For applicants exempt from undergoing biometrics:
- The applicant can submit documents in person or through a proxy. A trustee can be a family member, relative, secretary, travel agent, etc.
- When submitting documents through a third party, you must provide the original (copy) of the power of attorney signed by the applicant.
- The power of attorney must contain the full name and passport details of the authorized person and the applicant
Applicants can use the power of attorney form provided by VFS. The form can be downloaded from the link.
To download a sample power of attorney for filing for an adult, please.
To download a sample power of attorney to file for a minor, please.
- Documents for a long-term visa are accepted strictly by appointment. Consultation on a set of documents is also carried out strictly by appointment. You can make an appointment by calling the call center.
Applicants wishing to apply for a visa directly to Consulate-General France in Moscow, must make an appointment by calling the call center.
To register for the submission of documents for a short-term visa at the Moscow Exhibition Center, please follow the link.
For the convenience of applicants, the Visa Application Center provides additional services, such as: submission of documents in the VIP hall, registration of an insurance policy, courier delivery finished documents, photocopying documents and a photo booth.
Please read the Holidays and Weekends and Security Rules before visiting the Visa Application Centre.