Application for residence card: what proof of residence?
Verified 12 November 2019 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
If you are applying for a residence card, you must provide proof of residence dating back less than 3 months. The document to produce depends on your situation.
You must provide one of the following:
- Electricity or gas, water, landline or internet access bill
- Lease
- Rent receipt
- Housing tax
FYI
a secure proof of residence (including 2D-Doc barcode ) cannot be refused.
You must provide the following 2 documents:
- Attestation of your hotelier
- Last month invoice
You must provide the following documents:
- Attestation of your host dated and signed
- Copy of identity card or residence card
- Proof of domicile in his name (deed of ownership or statement of housing tax or copy of the lease or invoice of electricity, gas, water, fixed telephone or Internet access)
FYI
a secure proof of residence (including 2D-Doc barcode ) cannot be refused.
- Code on the entry and residence of aliens and the right to asylum: Articles R313-1 to R313-5Proof of domicile: Article R313-1 5°
- Code of Public-Administration Relations: Articles R113-5 to R113-9
- Order of 27 September 2013 on the security of documents proving the domicile by means of an electronic device to guarantee its authenticity2D-doc device