APPLICATION or RENEWAL
OF RESIDENCE PERMIT Student in Moselle department
WARNING !!! Due to the health crisis of Covid-19, for your safety and that of the International relations staff in charge of accompanying international students, a new procedure is in place for submitting resident permit application
You are an international student You are enrolling or continuing your studies in France during the 2020/2021 academic year; You must apply for your first resident permit or renew your previous resident permit.
You currently have : o A ‘D’- long term student visa WITH the following indication : “Titre de séjour à solliciter à votre arrivée en France o A resident permit valid for at least five years, granted by a country member of the European Union and with the indication RLD-UE; o A ‘C’ - short term entrance examination visa « Concours », and you’ve succeeded the examination test for which the visa was granted; o A ‘D’- long term visa for a minor « Mineur scolarisé » studying in France; o Long Stay Visa valid as a Residence Permit (VLS-TS); o A resident permit.
1. Send your scanned documents by E-MAIL, (see list of documents to provide) for approval to the International relations office at : drie-scan-ts-metz@univ-lorraine.fr
. If you don’t have a scan; you can download a free application on your smartphone . Make sure that the scanned documents are legible and in pdf format
. Check that your contact details (e-mail address and mobile phone number) are correctly and clearly written . Send your file ONLY ONCE: all files will be processed as they come. You will automatically receive an acknowledgement of receipt.
2. The International relations office will reach you by email either : a - to ask you to send other or missing documents b - to inform you that your file is complete and to allow you to post it at the following address:
Préfecture de la Moselle DII/BAS/Accueil BP 71014 57034 Metz Cedex 1
3. The Prefecture de Moselle will then contact you directly for next steps.
Check the e-mail address you gave in your file regularly.
For further information : [email protected]
The office ‘Accueil International of Université de Lorraine’ has computer tools designed to manage the residence permit application files. The collected data (civil status, type of visa…) are reserved for the use of the appropriate services and can only be communicated to the following recipient: Préfecture de Meurthe-et-Moselle. The data will be stored during the period of validity of the residence permit issued by the Préfecture and during the process of its renewal. In accordance with the Articles 39 and following of the law n° 78-17 dated 6 January 1978 modified, concerning data processing, files and freedom, any person concerned by the process can be communicated or, if need be, modify or delete data relating to them by contacting [email protected]
2. Make sure that all 1. Check that all documents are present documents are in order before scanning them
Documents to provide for students resident permit* Your e-mail address and telephone number written legibly on plain paper (typed if possible) 1 2 identity photographs under biometrics norm on a light grey background, with your first and last 2 names on the back, in a small envelope Full birth certificate, original written in French or accompanied by its translation by an approved translator 3 (only for 1st resident permit applicants) If married and if in France with children, a marriage certificate and extracts, birth certificate with filiation 4
Photocopies of all pages of your passport, except empty pages 5 Copy of visa validation certificate (only for 1st resident permit applicants) 6 For Visa C (Concours): • Attestation of success in entrance examination or Certificate of prior admission 7 • Proof of visa for THIS exam Photocopy of the previous resident permit (titre de séjour) if renewal 8 School certificates: • 2020/2021 (or pre-enrolment 2020/2021 for submission of the file) 9 • 2019/2020 if you were already a student in France • 2018/2019 if you were already a student in France Proof of real and serious nature of studies: • Transcript of notes 10 • Certificate of attendance Valid Social Security certificate (to be handed in at the latest when picking-up the new resident) 11 Proof of accommodation LESS than 6 months old:
• Student’s residence certificate OR House Bill OR Recent rental lease
• Certificate of hotel accommodation + the month’s bill ou • Electricity or gas or fixed-line phone or Internet or water bill ou 12 ou • In case of accommodation with a third party: o A dated and signed certificate of accommodation o Copy of the identity card or residence permit of the person providing accommodation. Warning : the address must be updated on the residence permit. o Electricity or gas or fixed-line phone or Internet or water bill OR housing tax A proof of financial resources of at least 615€ per month: • A grant certificate for the 2020/2021 ou • A bank certificate of regular money transfer for 2020/2021 ou • A bank certificate of sufficient credit balance ou • A dated and signed certificate in French of commitment of payment by a guarantor + the guaran- tor’s 3 latest pay slips OR pension certificate or commercial register + tax notice + a copy of the ou guarantor’s identity • Your last 3 pay slips if you have a job In case of resident permit renewal WITHOUT passing to the next grade or/and you change your curriculum: A copy of the last year’s course transcripts 14 A motivation letter explaining the grade repetition and/or you change of curriculum Medical certificate (in case of grade repetition due de health problems) If you enroll for a short course university diploma (DU) or in a private school A certificate delivered by the education institution or the school indicating the diploma prepared and its 15 correspondence to a national diploma; A detailed program of the course and the number of compulsory hours of attendance.
+ Tax stamp: proof of payment of the tax on the residence permit and of the stamp duty (75€): to produce + when the residence permit is issued.
Warning :
* Documents must be translated into French by a sworn translator if they are written in another language - Amounts must be indicated in euros if these documents are in another currency. - INCOMPLETE files will not be processed by the Prefecture, if additional documents are requested, please provide them quickly, otherwise your file will remain pending. - Article L. 311-13 of the code of entry and stay of foreigners : the renewal of a resident permit applied for after the expiry of the previous resident permit gives rise, except in cases of force majeure or presentation of a valid visa, to the payment of a regularisation fee of 180 €.