When your household stuff arrives in , it will have to clear customs - and for that, the customs clearing agent will need a copy of your port with your visa and proof you have arrived in . Until that point, your shipment will need to be stored (at a cost, of course). Depending on how you are shipping your belongings, you should ask the shipper (removals company usually) about storage facilities. (The ones at customs in tend to be super expensive if you don't have other arrangements made.) There may be a way the shipper can clear your stuff and store it in , but ask them what documents they will need for something like that.

 

Thank you. I suspected that would be the case but couldn’t find anything on the customs form or website to confirm.

 

I do not quite understand this-the OP says she has a" 1 year long stay visa" Does this mean that she only has a visa for a year which is not renewable ie Visa ST or does she have a Visa TS "renewable" at the Prefecture

 

Good point - the terminology on visas can be really confusing.

The VLST is the up to one year ONLY visa. Cannot be renewed from within .

VLS-TS is the "1 year +" visa that can be renewed for an actual card version of the carte de séjour (residence permit) a couple of months before the visa/titre de séjour expires.

 

One or two people on here have had a one year visa thinking they could renew it in and had to go back.I did not want the OP to go to the expense of shipping stuff/getting customs clearance etc only to have to take it back again. It may be worth the OP double checking the sticker in the port-VLST or VLTS