Famous European Company, CAPAGO task with providing international outsourcing and technology services to government and diplomatic missions, has issued a press release informing Sierra Leone about the decision of the French Embassy in Guinea and Sierra Leone to opening a Satellite French Visa Application Center in Freetown.
The Press release Pointed out that starting from the 19th April 2022, the Schengen Visa application center will open bi-monthly, every first and third week of the month.
The release further reveals that the French Consulate in Guinea is in Charge of handling Schengen Visa Applications for travellers residing in Guinea and Sierra Leone. Capago has been appointed as the official representative for the consulate in Guinea and Sierra Leone and has opened a visa application center in Conakry 2019. Untill now , the travellers from Sierra Leone had to travel to Guinea to apply for their Visa.
In recent times, the French Consulate has approached Capago to offer a solution for processing Visa applications Freetown in order to facilitate access to their service to the travelers .The use of the official French mobile biometric system Capago is now able to open the Freetown Visa Application as a Satellite branch of Capago Guinea.
The press release concluded that that travellers from Sierra can now apply from Freetown and receive the outcome of their application within two weeks.