SFAX, Feb. 27, 2010 (TAP)-Applicants for travel visas to France can obtain them within 24 hours, said M. Pierre Ménat, Ambassador of France to Tunisia in a news conference held recently in Sfax.

Accordingly, inhabitants of the interior governorates will have to travel only once to the capital city to apply for a visa, he explained.

In the same vein, the French diplomat expressed his embassy‘s commitment to increasing the number of long-term visas, which is currently of 100 thousand a year, he specified.