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.