Residence card (any carte de séjour) tax stamps on a first issue at the standard rate
350 EUR
- In force or effective
- since 1 May 2026
- Official source
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- Service-Public: taxes sur les titres de séjour We read this page on .
- Note
- Total of the taxe and the droit de timbre paid in tax stamps on the first issue of a carte de séjour temporaire, pluriannuelle or de résident, since 1 May 2026. The official pages do not agree on whether the card requested at the end of a VLS-TS is priced as a first issue or as a renewal: the employee fiche (F15898) prices it as a first issue, the student fiche (F2231) at the reduced renewal total, and the visitor fiche (F302) names the VLS-TS in both its first-issue and renewal steps. Check the fiche for the status before quoting one amount.
Official wording
le montant de ce timbre fiscal est de 350
Wording recorded from the source page. Accents and punctuation may be simplified. Source: Service-Public: taxes sur les titres de séjour.
France Navigator, by EasyFranceNow, applies this figure to your own situation in its First-Month Command Center, Relocation Budget Estimator, Visa Matcher and VLS-TS Validation Tracker.
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