French Territories: SCA Indicator {#sca-ind-french-terr}
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**Effective date:**April 12, 2024  
**Processor:** `Visa Platform Connect`  
**Regions:**CEMEA, LAC, and Europe regions  
**Services:**Authorization request and response  
**Feature**  
As of April 12, 2024, changes are being made to support the migration of these seven French territories from the LAC and CEMEA regions to the Europe region:

* Guadeloupe (Country code 312 GP) from Region LAC to Region Europe 3
* French Guiana (Guyana 254 GF) from Region LAC 5 to Region Europe 3
* Martinique from Region LAC (474 MQ) to Region Europe 3
* Saint‐Martin (French Part) from Region LAC (663 MF) to Region Europe 3
* Saint‐Barthélemy (652 BL) from Region LAC to Region Europe 3
* Réunion from Region CEMEA (638 RE) to Region Europe 3
* Mayotte from Region CEMEA (175 YT) to Region Europe 3

**Acquirers**  
Acquirers based in the French territories that are moving to the Europe region must support strong customer authentication (SCA)-related fields that correspond to this data in the TC 33 capture file:

* Record: CP07 TCR9
* EU Processing Position: 1--9, 29--140
* Field: EU Processing

**Merchants**  
Merchants transacting in the listed countries must include the SCA indicator in the transaction request. They must also be prepared to receive the SCA validation results in the transaction response.