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» Can I visit France without a visa?

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Hanan ibrahim
Sat, 22 Aug 2015 20:57 EDT
visa
I have visa to france and I reserved a visit to
Paris but the visa will finish two days before my
Departure .Do i have to renew my visa ? If so
What documents are required and do i have
To go to interview and what should I do .
I look forward your replay .
Thank you
Hanan ibrahim
Mohamed Hussein
Wed, 12 Aug 2015 08:20 EDT
Visa Problem for Honeymooners! Please Help!
Dear Sirs,

I applied for the France Visa through the TLS Contact center in Cairo with reference number: M4956666.

My wife and I applied together as it is our Honeymoon! I received my passport with the Schengen Visa Stamp but my wife was rejected?!! Is there a reason for this?! It is a special moment for us! Please help us out!!

I think you dealt with our passports as two separate individual, though we are travelling together to Paris for our Honey moon!

Please answer me as soon as possible as this will disturb a lot of preparations that we have been doing over the past 8 months!

Please help!
mohamed.hussein@allianz.com.eg
01004647657
Randa Doss
Tue, 30 Jun 2015 16:16 EDT
Not using the VISA
I have taken the VISA to France with validity period from 1-06-2015 till 30-08-2015
Unfortunately, I 'll never be able to travel withing this period.
If I couldn't use this VISA at all.
and further on, I needed to apply for a new one, will there be another chance to take a New ?
Abdelhalim Zeid
Sun, 10 May 2015 10:21 EDT
They never consider
I have applied for a short business stay there. I have obtained all necessary papers, invitation from a very high-profile studio/marketing agency in Paris, a financial guarantee letter and a bank statement that shows that my income is very high. They asked to have an agreement but this was not the case because I am only a freelancer and I am there working with an Italian company but we will make the recordings of the video-game in the French studio. They said; so we need only the agreement from the Italian company!! I have bought an agreement from another very well know company in Italy, signed from the CEO and we have CC'd the French Studio and they also attached a letter giving all necessary details, ALL, the videogame's title, the duration, the talents name, why they need me there, everything, stamped a signed. They did not get back to us until Philippe the Studio's owner had to call them from France and they said I will be rejected because the contract is with an Italian agency! Dumb officials! you said just have the agreement from the Italian company with all invitations, guarantee letters, from the French company and then they refused in the day of the departure. They did not even give us a chance to find an alternative.

I will find a way not to let this through.

They have really harmed my business not ruined a vacation or any! They ruined my business! really!

Abdelhalim
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Sara
Tue, 24 Mar 2015 10:00 EDT
Visiting Paris with an Italian student visa
I'll travel from Cairo can I visit enter Paris with an Italian student visa(valid), I used to have schengen visa & it's valid till 2016 I obtained it from Italian consulate but now it's canceled because I've got student visa
Tomader Helmy
Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:47 EST
French Visa Shingen
need to obtain all the papers on line pls..............whats the web......
Doaa
Sun, 21 Dec 2014 09:10 EST
Visa refusla
Dear Sir/Ms.

My Name is Doaa Moustafa, and I have applied for a tourism visa me and my friends “Nevine, Miral and Mariam” to travel in the Christmas break from the 24th of December to the 29th of December to Paris. And the four of us got the same needed papers “Bank Statement, HR letter, Flight ticket, Hotel accommodation, Health insurance and the complete applications”. However, the three of my friends got their Visa Except Me, I got a refuse on the 16th November 2014 and I Don’t know Why. As we are working in the same place “British university in Egypt” and I have already Schengen as I went last year to Europe for tourism and I got a bank statement For my account and my father account with more than enough amount of money and more than 9 months transactions.

Me and my same friends went to Europe before for tourism, and I have travel a lot Spain,Italy,Mexico,Qatar,Malaysia and Indonesia.

Hence, I have tried to make an appeal I kept on calling to get some information and no one answered and I already went to the French consulate but they refused to let me in to state my case.

So kindly please help me out to know why I got a refusal and what is missing then and I can bring any needed papers to get a visa. As if I didn’t get it will loose my flight ticket, accommodation and my vacation as well and I will be so depressed that I wont be able to travel with my friends.

Gently find the attached files for my passport “Doaa Moustafa Ragab Abouzeid” my last Schengen visa and the Visas, passports of my 3 friends “Nevine Essam, Miral Mohamed and Mariam Hasseb”

Thank you for your time and I will deeply appreciate your advice and cooperation.
Email: Doaa.Mustafa51@hotmail.com

Mobile:01004604270
BahaaElDin Ismail ElGeddawi
Tue, 2 Dec 2014 15:39 EST
Urgently Gentle Reminder Visa File number (484314 and 484317
Dear Sir,

Further to my file number in the above subject, please be informed that I applied for a tourism visa with my wife but it was not issued for us as the purpose of visit is not clear although:

Me and my wife had the Schengen visa before to Germany; in addition, my wife holds the United States visa and travelled in 2011.

I work in a senior position with my father as he is a main owner of a privately owned factory for metallic products with around 50 million Egyptian pounds of trading annually; (HR letter are attached with the visa documents applied). My wife works as an assistant to Financial Manager in the same business (HR letter is also submitted along with the necessary visa documents applied).

I applied for a tourism vacation with my wife for two weeks only and all required documents were accurate and provided to TLS. We found it a good opportunity to spend our annual vacation in one of the most beautiful countries in the world after a long exhaustive year.

I am living avery good, happy and stable life with my family (wife and one daughter) in Egypt and I own villa in Sheikh Zayed city (6th October). Please note that we will be leaving our only2 years and 6 months daughter with her grandparents during this small vacation period so that we can have some serenity, revive the marriage bonds, enjoy the festive season at this time of the year and go shopping in the second largest city in France.

Hotel was already booked in Marseille which will end up losing cost (1000 LE) to cancel the reservation; check-in was targeted December 2nd. Although it looks like small account but the reservation should be reflecting our aspiration to have this vacation.

It would be my honor and pleasure to have a meetingwith you sir or any representative to understand why the visa was not issued and review all the documents in the file together in order to resolve the issue as it is the first time in my life to apply for a visa and don't get it.





Please Note: Any other required documents can be provided immediately upon request, like daughter's identity or my father's factory certificate of trade or tax card.


Thank you for your time and kind understanding.

I will appreciate to contact me at ayaallam91@hotmail.com or 01001661003
Waled Moh.
Fri, 28 Nov 2014 16:14 EST
Visa Refusal although we got it before from the same embassy
WE (Me & My Wife) have been rejected on 23.11.2014 while we did submit all required documents , I am a multinational company (Marketing Eng.) employee since 2011 , I provide bank statement for 2 banks for last 6 months (Stamped) , HR letter (stamped) , hotel reservation confirmation, Airline tickets from my travel agent , insurance certificate. (All the required documents which is reliable 100%) & the rejection mentioned that the papers we have presented is not reliable(Item No.8 in Rejection form).
We have been applied for the Schengen visa from the french embassy in 2012 & we travelled to Paris and we come back .
I read a lot of articles from the EU law & according to the interpretation of EU Law Article (41) Right to good administration: Every person has the right to be heard before any individual measure which would affect him or her adversely is taken – (the decision to refuse a visa is taken). So I have the right to be heard, I should have been called for an interview since we only went to TLScontact and gave them our files. A reply will be appreciated.
waled_20@hotmail.com
Baheya El Sherif
Wed, 8 Oct 2014 10:47 EDT
transit a Paris
Je partirai le 14 October 2014 du Caire a Miami via France, le depart du caire a 6:35 a.m , j arrive a Paris 11:20 et je repars le lendemain 15 October 2014 a 10:00 pour Miami. Je n'ai pas obtenu un schengen visa, est ce que c'est permis de rester a l'aéroport ces quelques heures d'attente. Merci

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