This is a very important question about my French student visa...?

Question

Has anyone else had this happen to them? I am studying abroad next semester in Paris on January 11, 2008. I recently got my student visa at the French Consulate. For some reason, on my visa it says valid from FEB 11, - Aug 11, 2008. I don't know if this is a typo, or if it is supposed to be like that. I didn't think a consulate could be so incompetent to mess up the dates so I'm still confused. I tried calling them but no one is answering. Thanks!!!

Answer 1

Simply return to the consulate and have them re-issue the visa - no reason to call.  Just be certain to tell them how incompetent you think they are.  Seriously, the burden is on the visa applicant to be certain that all of the visa information is correct at the time of delivery - clerical errors are a part of reality in every imaginable kind of administrative operation, so don't be too shocked.  You still have plenty of time.

Answer 2

Well still i'd say ur lucky ! u've got the visa man !! after knowing my story u'd definately feel at least a little better ..

I applied to the french embassy in August 2007 for a student visa, for the October 2007 session after getting admission in one of the best french polytechnique institutes .. i was very happy .. but that was it to my happiness ..

first they screwed me too much with a load of visa requirements and some stupid extra requirements , such as, they wudn't accept my application unless i rent an appartment near the university .. so i've paid 400 euros non-refundable for an appartment which i have never even seen, how hard it was to find the appartment is a whole different story ..

Then i had to wait 6 hours straight on the same chair before my interview and when my interview eventually took place, the embassy was totally empty and i was the first applicant to enter the embassy that day, with no.1 on the list of rendez-vous ..

That's too bad u might think .. although i have mentioned just a few things here .. and well u might also think that,  OK never mind, he's in france now and really busy in his studies and perhaps he shud be forgetting all the maltreatment of the french embassy .. but wait !!!!

it's January 2008 .. and it's been 5 months that i've been waiting for their answer to my visa application ...

Feeling better ????