Here are the steps the passport renewal process:
Step 1 - Know if you need to buy an electronic stamp
In most cases, especially if your passport has expired or is expiring soon, you will need to provide a "Français de l'foreigner" electronic stamp by an amount of €96. You have to buy this stamp on the internet:
Buy an electronic stamp "Français de l'foreigner" online
In this case, your passport will be valid 10 years from the time of its issue.
Warning
You don't buy an electronic stamp if you are in one of the following situations and agree that the new passport will keep the same expiry date as the old one:
- There are only one or two empty pages left on your current passport
- You change your last name (for example, spouse)
- You changed your address
- You renew your passport to correct an error made by the administration
Step 2 - Prepare the documents and information needed to make the online pre-request
In any case
You must provide:
- Your Consular Registration Number (Numic) in the French Register established outside France
- The e-mail address communicated to the Register of French outside France
- One french-standard photo and less than 6 months old
- A copy of your current passport (double page where your identity photo and signature are)
- Proof of domicile less than one month ago
If you have your own accommodation, the document must contain your first and last name. This is one of the following documents:
- Landline or Mobile Invoice
- Electricity, gas or water bill
- Rent receipt (from a social agency or real estate agency)
- Tax Notice or No Tax Certificate
- Housing insurance certificate or invoice
If you live with a relative, you must attach the following 3 documents:
- One of the above vouchers on behalf of the host
- An ID of the person who is hosting you
- A signed letter from the host certifying that you have been living at their home stably or for more than 3 months (a letter template is available)
Other information or documents are needed depending on your situation:
- If you need to buy an electronic stamp, the number of your stamp
- If you renew your passport to correct an administrative error and you renew your passport free of charge, an affidavit in which you present the administrative error (an attestation model is available)
- If you renew your passport because its pages are exhausted and you renew your passport free of charge, copy all the pages of the passport into a single file, with the page numbers clearly visible (optional, you can send it later by mail)
- If one or more valid visas require you to keep your current passport, a copy of one of those visas
- If you change your last name, proof of change of last name
The proof to provide depends on where your username comes from.
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That's your father's or your mother's name
You must provide a birth certificate (full copy or extract with filiation) showing the names of the 2 parents.
It's your husband's or wife's name
You must provide
- or one birth certificate to your name (extract or full copy) of less than 3 months mentioning the marriage,
- or a full copy of the marriage certificate less than 3 months old.
If the widow or widow prefix is added
You must provide a death certificate.
In addition, you must provide
- or one birth certificate to your name (extract or full copy) of less than 3 months mentioning the marriage,
- or a full copy of the marriage certificate less than 3 months old.
Step 3 - Pre-apply for a passport renewal on the Internet
You must use FranceConnect+ via your La Poste digital identity.
Pre-application for a passport renewal in Canada or Portugal
FYI
If you cannot connect with FranceConnect+, you must go to the consulate to renew your passport on site.
Step 4 - Receive the consulate's response to your pre-request
You're getting an answer by email at the address you declared when you registered with the French Register abroad.
The email presents the list of documents which you must mail to the consulate, the postal address the consulate, as well as the information you will need to have a remote video-conference interview with a consular officer.
Step 5 - Buy 2 pre-paid envelopes and send the documents by mail
Envelopes
You must buy 2 pre-paid envelopes from a private carrier.
You should consult your consulate's website to find out the carrier and the type of envelope to buy.
You must
- send one of the envelopes to the consulate with your documents (the consulate will use it to send you your new passport)
- and use the other envelope to send the first envelope and your documents to the consulate.
Collect and print your documents
- Your original photo ID on photo paper
- Copy of the documents presented in the email reply to your pre-request
Send items to consulate
You must send the mail to the mailing address indicated in the reply to your pre-request.
Step 6 - Be invited to choose the appointment by videoconference with a consular officer
Once the consulate has received and verified your mail, you will be contacted by email to schedule an appointment. The email will invite you to log in to your personal area Service-Public.fr. You will have access to a link where you can choose the day and time slot for the appointment.
The meeting will be held by videoconference.
Contact the consulate by e-mail with your first name, surname and date of birth.
Step 7 - Join the videoconference with the Consular Officer
During the interview, the consular officer checks your file with you.
You will need to show your passport to the agent.
The duration of the maintenance is estimated to be approximately 20 minutes.
Contact the consulate by email.
Step 8 - Receive the receipt from the consulate
Following the meeting by videoconference, the consulate will send you a receipt in your personal area Service-Public.fr. You are notified by email and must download the document entitled Receipt of your passport application in your personal area Service-Public.fr.
FYI
The deadline for receipt depends on the location and period of your request.
If the consulate accepts the passport application, your passport will be manufactured and sent to you.
While waiting for the receipt of the passport, you can follow its manufacture and its dispatch. You must go to the website of theANTS: titleContent and enter and validate the application number on the receipt:
Track your passport application
Step 9 - Receive passport
You will receive your new passport in a secure envelope (in the envelope you purchased and sent with your documents). The passport is handed to you in person.
Inquire with the carrier. He will tell you how to proceed (2nd pass, withdrawal in a post office...).
Step 10 - Activate your new passport
Confirm receipt of the passport on the internet
In a maximum of 40 days once you have received your passport, you must log in to the ANTS website:
Acknowledge receipt of passport
You must enter the security number which is indicated on the receipt that you have downloaded your personal space Service-Public.fr.
Send the old passport by post within 40 days (unless you keep it, because it contains a visa still valid)
You need to buy a prepaid envelope (same as those used when sending your documents to the consulate).
In a maximum of 40 days after receiving your new passport, you must place your old passport in the envelope and send it to your consulate.
Warning
If the consulate has not received your old passport within this period, your new passport will be deactivated. You won't be able to use it anymore.
