Visa validation

All students with a type “D” student visa, staying in France for over 3 months, must validate their visa upon arrival. Click below to take care of this vital step ASAP!

After the payment of the fee, the visa will be validated and you will have to download a certificate confirming that your visa validation has been completed online.

Please keep this certificate carefully with you! You will need it:

• To travel and come back to France – immigration control (if you do not validate your visa within 3 months, and you need to leave France for some reason, you will have to apply for a new visa to return back to France)
• To renew your visa with the Prefecture if you have to stay longer in France for your studies
• To apply for the housing allowance (CAF)
• To complete the French health insurance application

This is a compulsory procedure and if students have not validated their file within 3 months of their arrival in France, they will no longer be able to travel in the Schengen area and will be considered as being in an irregular situation on the French territory, and thus having to discontinue their studies at NEOMA.

Travelling outside of France

If you wish to visit a foreign country within the Schengen area: your long-stay, multiple entries visa allows you to travel within the Schengen area.

If you wish to visit a country outside the Schengen area, or visit your home country:

Within 3 months of your arrival in France: Travel is authorized without your validation certificate, with a long-stay, multiple-entry visa.

3 months after your arrival: you must have the validation certificate. If you have not undergone the validation formalities before the deadline (3 months after arrival), you will have to apply for a new long-stay visa from the diplomatic or consular services in your home country.