All Chinese participants should have received by email a scanned invitation letter. The original document was posted the same day by normal mail. We hope that will be enough for your administration to authorize your January trip to Marseilles.

From the French government side, this letter is the only requested document: no accommodation certificate has to be presented, since the Local Committee commits itself to pay for your housing and living expenses during the workshop.

APPLICATION IN BEIJING:

For visa application with private passport:

Please note that the French Embassy in China has recently decided to set up a new procedure: to apply for a visa, you have to get an appointment by signing in on https://cn.visasfrance.org/login.php?redir=/index.php&l=en This website is also available in Chinese.

After you have registered on visasfrance, please send us an email. In your message, please specify your name, passport number and type and the reference number provided to you by the visasfrance web site.

We need this information in order to help speeding up the visa procedure at the French embassy.

APPLICATION IN SHANGHAI AND OTHER AREAS:

You'll find all details on the embassy webpage: http://www.ambafrance-cn.org/?lang=zh.

More precisely on http://www.ambafrance-cn.org/spip.php?rubrique108&lang=zh

For applications in Shanghai, please carefully read this part: http://www.ambafrance-cn.org/spip.php?rubrique373&lang=zh

For visa application with public affair passport:

In this case, the application will go through the Chinese administration. Please ask them to give you the application registration number given by the French Consulate. Email it to us together with your name, passport number, and passport type.

Should you need further information, please do not hesitate to contact us.