Visa Information
It is imperative that authors and attendees allow sufficient time to obtain visas.
Participants from EU nations and from USA, Canada, Australia and New Zealand do not need a visa to enter France. Several NON-EU citizens will need a visa. We strongly recommend you to check the official website of the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs for updated and detailed information regarding entrance visas and permits of stay in France.
We recommend you also to contact the French embassy or consulate nearest to you. If an entry visa is required, please allow sufficient time for this procedure. Upon entering France and the Schengen Area, even if you have a visa, border authorities are authorised once again to check the documents required for issuance of the visa.
Invitation letters
Conference attendees who require a visa will typically need an invitation letter from the General Chair. Kindly email your request to us, using the subject “Visa Invitation Letter Request”.
To expedite the process, please provide as many of the following pieces of information as possible in your request:
- your full name as it will appear on the letter, date of birth, nationality, passport number, and institute
- an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (CV) that includes, if applicable, a list of publications
- a brief statement explaining your interests in the conference
- a list of any recent IACR conferences you have attended and/or a reference in the crypto community who has attended past IACR conferences
We hope that you will be able to attend PQCrypto 2026 and help us make the conference a great success.