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working holiday visa for france?

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jbear Joined: Feb 06 Points: 20 Posts: 5 Posted: 2006-02-07 13:27:00    heylo everybody! i need some help! been beating my head against a brick wall trying to get info on this one: i'm a US citizen living in the UK, and i wanna live in france for 3-6 months, but i need to work while i'm there. what do i do? i can't seem to find any info on a working holiday visa, so i don't know if it exists for france.. does it? do i have to have an employer lined up before i apply? and do i have to go back to the states to apply for it? basically, i need some advice. if you were me, what would you do? thank you! johanna Reply    Reply with quote    Contact jbear   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-02-07 20:20:00    Hi Johanna First of all welcome to the site. Do enjoy some of the photos and reports while you are seeking information. I know nothing about this except what I can glean from the Internet. However, http://www.anyworkanywhere.com/visas_fr.html lists three countries with which France has a working holidays agreement and it doesn't include the USA. I think you need to go to http://www.consulfrance-londres.org/ , get the English version and then the visa homepage. Look carefully and see whether any of the options on the left will answer your question. I think they may well not, in which case the 'contact us' site shows you how to contact the French Embassy by phone or e-mail. Cheers, David --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx   jbear Joined: Feb 06 Points: 20 Posts: 5 Posted: 2006-02-07 23:04:00    hey! thanks for your response! yeah, i've been to the french consulate in london website. as well as the french-USA website. i've contacted the UK consulate and two US consulates by email and received no response. you can't speak with anybody in the UK consulate, and it costs £1/minute to listen to a useless recording. i called the chicago based consulate, and they couldn't give me any advice, and i've also contacted the US embassy in paris and received no response. now i'm assuming that a working holiday must be out of the question since i've looked at that other page you mentioned. looks like its only offered to those specific countries they have agreements with. :( johanna Reply    Reply with quote    Contact jbear   davidx Premium account Joined: Dec 04 Points: 34719 Posts: 440 Posted: 2006-02-08 12:45:00    Yes, I'm afraid that's how I read it. --- Grieve not for that which you cannot do but rejoice in that which you can. Reply    Reply with quote    Contact davidx