Visa to France - 0: Necessary documents

After being accepted to the LCT Erasmus Mundus Master, it came the time to apply for a French Visa. 

That means, doing more bureaucracy.

And, oh, is French bureaucracy a big monster!

Note: Having a scholarship made everything easier.

Steps of the visa application

Applying for a French visa has two steps.

1. Campus France application
2. Embassy appointment    
   

 I'll be explaining about the specific steps in later posts, here I'll resume all the documents necessary.

Documents to have ready

Some of these come from the general documents for applying to Master's

1. Passport scan (of course) 
2. Full passport photocopy (Even the blank pages)
   
3. Bachelor's degree with Apostille
4. Course transcripts with Apostille
5. Proof of language proficiency (only English in my case)
   
6. Curriculum Vitae / resume
7. Scholarship Letter from EU
8. Acceptance Letter from French University

 

Documents that appear along the way

 The explanation of this documents will appear in the following posts related to getting the French Visa.

1. Campus France certificate (from the end of the Campus France step)
2. Visa request Form (from the middle of the Embassy appointment step)
3. A document that certifies housing in France (to be explained in a future post)
4. Embassy appointment confirmation (for entering the French embassy)
5. Code for picking up the passport (given at the end of the Embassy appointment)
   

Of course, these are the documents that I needed in my particular situation of being a student in 2021, the requirements may change in the future.