France "Passport Talent" visa - validity

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You have recieved a Long stay visa valid as residence permit Visa de long séjour valant Titre de séjour or VLS-TS.

This is specific to France, where the actual visa on your passport is legally equivalent to a residence permit that would be on a separate card in other countries.

But, as it is a residence permit de facto, you can enter any Schengen country to transit or, even have a short visit to other Schengen states, provided you stay in the 90/180 clock (the clock doesn't run while you're in France, only in other states)

Campus-France (the official agency that deals with foreign students) states :

  • travel freely in all the countries of the Schengen Area;
  • work 964 hours per year, i.e. 20 hours per week, to supplement their financial resources;
  • use the VISALE, the free security deposit service for students,
  • receive a rental subsidy from the CAF, the family allowance fund (caisse d'allocations familiales), extend their stay beyond the period of validity of the issued residence permit.

Note, you MUST validate your visa online once in France

If you don't :

Holders of a multiple-entry VLS-TS student visa (VLS-TS "étudiant" à entrées multiples) are entitled to travel outside of France and in the entire world whenever they wish. Please be aware, however, that you must have validated your visa to travel outside of France beyond the three months following your arrival in France.  

  • During the first three months after your arrival in France, you are authorised to travel freely outside of France and in the entire world with your visa, even if you have not validated it.
  • After these three months, however, if you have not validated your visa and you travel outside of France, you will be required to apply for a new visa to return to France.

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The situation with D visas is that you have different rights in the country which issued it and the rest of the Schengen countries.

In the country which issued it (the one in the “valid for” field, France in your case), you can:

  • Stay as long as you want within the validity period of the visa (no 90/180 limitation)
  • Work (within the rules of the specific visa)

You can still visit the other Schengen countries, but then the usual rules of a C visa apply:

  • 90 days max and 90/180 rule (counting only the days in Schengen outside of France)
  • You can’t work

So you can transit through another country (or several) on your way to/from France, you can visit friends and family or take a holiday for a short period of time in other Schengen countries, but you can’t use that visa to live and work in a different country, only France.

And yes, you must leave before the end of validity of the visa. However, that visa is only a "temporary" visa, if you are supposed to stay one year or more they only grant this short visa, and once you're in France you are supposed to ask for "carte de séjour" (residency permit) which will last longer and allow you to stay longer.

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