France will issue around 70,000 visas completely online to athletes, journalists, and delegations for the Olympic and Paralympic games.
France will issue around 70,000 visas completely online to athletes, journalists, and delegations for the Olympic and Paralympic games.
Since Monday, January 1, 2024, France has started operating a new system called the “Olympic Consulate” which will be processing applications of 15,000 international athletes, 9,000 journalists and delegations of foreign countries participating in the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games, SchengenVisaInfo.com reports.
The system has been established in a bid of the French authorities to prevent the applications for the Olympics from getting mixed up with the flood of files currently being processed at French visa centres abroad.
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Applications will be filed and processed via the France-Visas platform completely online, which makes France the first EU country to process visas online, in line with the EU Schengen visa digitalisation plans adopted by the Parliament last October.
At the same time, these 70,000 people will not have their visas affixed to their passports, but will have them integrated directly into their accreditation cards.
The Olympic and Paralympic Games in France are set to be held from July 26 to August 11 and from August 28 to September 8, 2024, respectively. The country expects around 1.5 million spectators from all over the world to attend the games.
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