You are a foreign scientist (researcher, teacher, post-PhD, PhD student with a contract of employment) and you are planing to work in France for more than 1 month. Your country doesn’t make part of the European Union or belongs to the new entering countries*.

The Université de Bordeaux Mobility Centre is your interlocutor for :

• entry procedures on the French territory
• administrative and practical steps

Please take attention : the mobility centre is not responsible for PhD students who have no contract of employment. They need a « student » visa.

The entry procedure on the French territory comprises 2 main steps :

• Obtaining a scientific visa
• Obtaining a residence permit (carte de séjour)

Note : if you stay less than 3 months, you will only need your visa. If you stay more than 3 months, you will have to ask for a scientific residence permit / carte de séjour scientifique.

Procedure for obtaining a scientific « carte de séjour »

Essential documents required to deliver a visa

We want you and your family to have the nicest stay possible, so the mobility centre will be helpful for your settling in Bordeaux and for everyday life :

• finding an accommodation
• applying for social security and social benefits
• opening a bank account in Bordeaux
• finding a day nursery or a school for your children
• helping your spouse or husband to search an employment
• improving your French by taking lessons
• …

Accommodation demand