#EAEF2611724AFrance expands online fee payment and refund rules to temporary passport applications
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This amendment adds temporary passport applications to the list of cases covered by France’s online system for paying and getting refunds of the chancery fee. In practical terms, people and agencies handling temporary passport requests can now use the same digital payment and refund process already used for other covered applications. The change is a small administrative update, but it affects consular and passport processing workflows. It takes effect on 1 May 2026, so teams handling passport services should make sure their systems and instructions reflect the updated list.
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Key Changes
- Temporary passport applications are added to the list of cases eligible for online chancery fee payment and refunds.
- The change becomes effective on 1 May 2026.
- No other substantive rules are changed in this short amendment.
Obligations
What this law requires
From 1 May 2026, entities handling administrative fee payment/refund processes must include requests for issuance of a temporary passport in the scope of the dematerialized (online) chancery-fee payment and refund procedure.
From 1 May 2026, entities processing applications for a temporary passport must include that request in the online system for payment and refund of the chancery fee (droit de chancellerie) under the amended list of covered cases.
The amended arrêté must be published in the Journal officiel de la République française.
Systems, procedures, and user instructions for dematerialized chancery-fee processing must be updated to reflect that temporary passport applications are now covered.