Provins for the Day!

Bruxelles Ma Belle

Musée de la Reddition

Musée de la Reddition 12 Rue Franklin Roosevelt Reims, France

Monopole Hotel

Reims
a city in the Alsace - Champagne - Ardenne - Lorraine region in France

Plaza Premium Lounge

Landing in Hong Kong on my way to Paris and dreading my 10 hour layover, I decided to book a private resting area at the Plaza Premium Lounge.

Here are some photos 

Long Stay Student Visa for France

While doing my research about moving to France to study, I have scoured the internet forums and blogs for tips and tricks regarding French student visa applications for Philippine passport holders and to no avail did I find anything helpful, if at all. So, after finally getting mine, I thought I'd share to you what you need to be a step closer to getting that elusive Schengen visa.

Just to be clear, this post will cover the requirements and procedures to apply for a Long Stay Student Visa for France for Philippine passport holders. This is basically based on my experience while processing and getting the visa by myself. I did not go through any agencies. This is a DIY visa application.

Here I have collated all my references in applying for my visa with links to their respective sources.

For your official reference on tourist and other visas, please head on over to the Embassy of France in Manila website located here.

Again, this post will only cover Long Stay Student Visas for France for Philippine passport holders.

I'm assuming you've already secured yourself a spot in the school that you applied for and you're now on your next step which is applying for your student visa.

If you're still shopping around for schools, I won't be of very much help on how to start. I actually found my school when I was there in Paris the other year. Though, you can try the Campus France Manille website located here to help you with your search. They also have a Facebook Page located here.

Campus France Philippines offers free educational consultation services to everyone who wants to know how they can pursue higher education in France. You may click here for more information.

For more information on Campus France or to set an appointment with the Philippine representative for Campus France:

manille@campusfrance.org

(02) 857 6900

http://www.philippines.campusfrance.org/.

Consultation is by appointment only.

My Visa Interview at the US Embassy in Manila

This is a repost from my old site. The original post is located here, but I've decided to migrate some of my posts to this new site instead.

"Every alien shall be presumed to be an immigrant until he establishes to the satisfaction of the officer, at the time of the application for a visa . . . that he is entitled to nonimmigrant status . . .”

So anyway ... I don't know if it's really difficult for people to get a U.S visa or if it was just luck but it went breezily for me.

I flew in from Cebu at 4:45am, checked into my hotel to leave my phone, went to the embassy at 5:45, barely sunrise.

Paid 700 (the meter was 500 something, the rest was tip) for the cab from the airport, to the hotel as he waited for me to check in then to the embassy.

Was one of the firsts in line.

My interview was kind of like conversing with your friend about your travel plans.

As soon as I approached the window, the interviewer greeted me with a very charming good morning