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Identity documents
Passport, ID card, driver's license: be ready in time to leave this summer!
Publié le 05 mars 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
Is your passport expiring soon? Are you going abroad and you need an international driving license? Be careful, some requests can take several months. In order to be ready in time to leave this summer, Service-Public.fr helps you with your administrative procedures.
Geolocate a town hall to process my request
Do you want to apply for or renew a passport and/or national identity card (CNI)? You can, first of all, geolocate a town hall near you on the website of the National Agency for Secure Titles (NSA).
The ANT also makes available a search engine to find an appointment as soon as possible.
Reminder
The location of the application does not depend on your place of residence: you can go to any town hall, provided that it is equipped with a “collection device”.
Pre-apply online
Before attending the appointment, you can pre-apply online for an identity card and/or passport on the portal France Titles of the ANT. The connection is made with your France Connect credentials.
The steps are as follows:
- Connect to your space.
- Click on “New Request”.
- Select the type of pre-requisition you want to perform.
- start your walk.
Careful, the subject of your pre-request will no longer be editable afterwards, be sure to choose the reason for it. Once the process is completed, you get a pre-application number that you will have to communicate in town hall at the time of the appointment.
FYI
The online pre-application of a passport or CNI is not mandatory, it just allows you to fill in upstream certain civil status information necessary for your file. Otherwise, it is always possible to fill out a form available only in town hall.
Go to town hall to finalize the request
Take meeting in town hall on the website France Titles:
- with your pre-request number, the city council officer finds your file online and you validate it together;
- the mayoral officer takes your fingerprints, either for the CNI or the passport (children under 12 years are not concerned);
- your application is then validated in town hall and you will receive a message to come and collect your identity card when it is ready.
Track the progress of editing my ID
Once your application has been validated in town hall, you will be given a 17-character number through which you can follow online the different stages of the production of your passport and/or national identity card.
Please note
A passport costs between 17 and 86 € depending on your age, you can check the cost using the dedicated simulator of Service-Public.fr.
My driving license abroad
Do you need an international driving license to drive abroad? If you are traveling in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, you do not need it. If you go to another country, the rules vary: either your French license is sufficient or you must have an international license.
Service-Public.fr tells you which rules to know: International driving license abroad.
FYI
The international license allows you to drive abroad the same category of vehicle as the one indicated on the national license. The international driving license is only valid with your French license.
How do I get an international license?
You must pre-apply online for the international permit via the portal France Titles. The following documents must then be sent by post to the address indicated at the end of the procedure:
- the online application certificate;
- a recent photo of identity less than 6 months old and in compliance with the standards;
- a pre-franked envelope with 2 stamps and a sticker of the Post “letter followed” labeled with your name, first name and desired address (recommended ones are not accepted).
These documents must be sent within 2 months from your online pre-request. After this period, your file is automatically rejected.
Please note
Files sent by post, without going through the online pre-application, cannot be processed and will be sent directly to you.
Warning
The current time limit for the examination of international driving licenses isapproximately 4 months from receipt of your mail. This period may change, but you should anticipate your requests as much as possible.
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