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Dematerialized procedure

French citizens living in Portugal and Canada can now renew their passports online

Publié le 06 mars 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

Adult French citizens residing in Canada and Portugal may, under conditions, from 1^er March 2024, have their passport renewed dematerialistically on Service-Public.fr. The modalities of this experiment were specified in an order published on February 28, 2024 in the Official Journal.

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If you reside in Canada or Portugal, you can now apply to renew your passport at Service-Public.frSo you don't have to go to the embassy or consulate. To do this, you need to:

have received your current passport when you were at least 18 years old (the reference date used is the date of issue of the passport);
have a passport that has been valid or expired for less than 5 years;
be registered in the Register of French outside France.

You cannot use this procedure if it is:

a renewal for loss or theft;
a renewal for a change of name or surname;
an application for a second passport.

Please note

this experiment lasts for one year, ending on february 28, 2025. At the latest, three months before this deadline, a committee will carry out an evaluation of this experiment, which aims to facilitate the administrative procedures of foreigners nationals; indeed, travel to embassies and consulates, necessary to renew one's passport, can be lengthy and costly. The possibility of extending the scheme to other countries will then be examined.

How is this paperless process going?

To obtain your passport through the paperless process, here are the main steps:

you must go to Service-Public.fr and connect using FranceConnect+ (in other words, your La Poste digital identity);
in most cases, especially if your passport has expired, you will need to provide a €96 "Français de l'foreigner" electronic stamp (you will need to buy it on stamps.impots.gouv.fr);
you must provide a digital version of various documents, including a copy of the double page of your current passport containing your photo ID and signature, proof of residence less than one month old and a photo ID that meets French standards less than 6 months old;
in addition, you must also send by post to the consulate your photo identity photo, as well as the copy of the documents indicated in the reply email to your passport renewal pre-request (the postal address of the consulate is specified in the reply email);
once the consulate has received and verified the items in your file, you are prompted to set a date for a videoconference appointment with a consular officer. During this interview, he checks your file with you and you must present your current passport. This interview takes about 20 minutes.

You will receive your new passport in a secure envelope and it will be delivered to you in person. Then, within a maximum of 40 days after receiving your new ID, you must mail your old passport to the consulate (unless you are told that you can keep it because it contains a visa still valid). If the consulate has not received your old ID by this date, your new passport is deactivated.