How to get "titre de séjour"
A short introduction based on my experience for the "titre de séjour scientifique" (scientist residency permit/card)
For the PhD registered in UPMC (Paris VI), if you live in region of Massy, Palaiseau, Orsay, etc, you should ask for a residency card (titre de sejour) at the Sous-Prefecture de Palaiseau, an organisation equivalent to the police in charge of the immigration in some countries.
For demanding the residency card, you have two choices: 1, carte de séjour d'étudiant (student residency card), 2, carte de séjour scientifique (scientist resident card).
For the first choice, you should firstly go the sous-prefecture de Palaiseau to get the forms. Just go to the general reception desk (not the immigration bureau, too many people), they have forms. You prepare all the necessary documents (passport, financial resource certificat, photos, last year transcripts, ....photocopies), put them in a big envelop, and sent them by mail to the sous-prefecture. Later on, you have nothing to do, but wait!!! They will send you a reception about one week to one month after they receive your doucments. Then wait another one to six months to get your récépissé. And at least about two to three months to get your official resident card. With this kind of residency card, you have only the right to work 30% full time job. So you have to go the DDTEFP at EVRY to ask for a 100% full time job authorization (authorisation de travail).
For the second choice, you should contact firstly M. Julia FRANKE in UPMC, Jussieu Campus. Go to see her with your Ph.D contract. She will ask for a 'convention d'accueil' at the prefecture de Paris. It will take you about one month. At the same time, you should ask Mme. Franke to "prendre un rendez-vous" at the sous-préfecture de Palaiseau par email (to the email adress : etrangers-palaiseau@essonne.pref.gouv.fr). It will takes you about 2 months to hear their response to fix a date. You prepare others documents (photo, passport, contrat, photocopies, etc), and wait about one month, you go to the sous-prefecutre de Palaiseau and hand in all your documents. At that day, they will give your a recepisse. You wait about another three months, they will send you a 'convocation' for another meeting date. At that day, you can go and get your official residency card. So totally it will take you 6 months.
Important remarks :
For the PhD registered in UPMC (Paris VI), if you live in region of Massy, Palaiseau, Orsay, etc, you should ask for a residency card (titre de sejour) at the Sous-Prefecture de Palaiseau, an organisation equivalent to the police in charge of the immigration in some countries.
For demanding the residency card, you have two choices: 1, carte de séjour d'étudiant (student residency card), 2, carte de séjour scientifique (scientist resident card).
For the first choice, you should firstly go the sous-prefecture de Palaiseau to get the forms. Just go to the general reception desk (not the immigration bureau, too many people), they have forms. You prepare all the necessary documents (passport, financial resource certificat, photos, last year transcripts, ....photocopies), put them in a big envelop, and sent them by mail to the sous-prefecture. Later on, you have nothing to do, but wait!!! They will send you a reception about one week to one month after they receive your doucments. Then wait another one to six months to get your récépissé. And at least about two to three months to get your official resident card. With this kind of residency card, you have only the right to work 30% full time job. So you have to go the DDTEFP at EVRY to ask for a 100% full time job authorization (authorisation de travail).
For the second choice, you should contact firstly M. Julia FRANKE in UPMC, Jussieu Campus. Go to see her with your Ph.D contract. She will ask for a 'convention d'accueil' at the prefecture de Paris. It will take you about one month. At the same time, you should ask Mme. Franke to "prendre un rendez-vous" at the sous-préfecture de Palaiseau par email (to the email adress : etrangers-palaiseau@essonne.pref.gouv.fr). It will takes you about 2 months to hear their response to fix a date. You prepare others documents (photo, passport, contrat, photocopies, etc), and wait about one month, you go to the sous-prefecutre de Palaiseau and hand in all your documents. At that day, they will give your a recepisse. You wait about another three months, they will send you a 'convocation' for another meeting date. At that day, you can go and get your official residency card. So totally it will take you 6 months.
Important remarks :
- For the scientist residency card, you can ask a card for more than one year as long as your contract, e.g. 3 years for a Ph.D. So don't forget to ask it when you hand in your documents. They won't do it automatically!!!
- If your old residency card or recepisse already expired, do not wait in the queue at 4 o'clock in the morning at the prefecture de Palaiseau!!! They will do nothing for you, in general. In this case, more intelligently, you can go the prefecture at the noon, and wait in the queue for the "pre-accueil" window, they can check your document on the computer, and do some necessaries for you, if you are lucky. In this case, you only need to wait about two to three hours.
- If your recepisse is expired and you received the "convocation", but the date is in more than one months, you can buy the fiscal stamps, directly go to the sous-prefecture, and wait in the line of the "pre-accueil" window. They can deliver your residency card in advance, if it is ready.
- If you really have trouble, send a mail to science accueil. They will help you.
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Bonus : A interesting witness written by an American post-doc in CNRS, John Lain. His "extrodinary" experience for demanding a 'titre de séjour' took him about 8 months. However, for me, it is no surprising! It makes some of us, foreigne students or researchers laughing, because it is exactly how the French administration treats us.
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