The Chilean ace was given extra time off following the World Cup and did not join the Gunners squad on their whistle stop tour to New York.
Boss Arsene Wenger was hoping to get the chance to finally work with his £35m man today when his squad land in Austria for four days of training.
But Sanchez will instead go to Paris to sort out his visa.
He will train on his own at the Gunners' Hertfordshire training base before the rest of his new team-mates return on Thursday.
German World Cup winners Lukas Podolski, Mesut Ozil and Per Mertesacker will not return until August 11 - the day after the Community Shield clash with Manchester City.
Wenger said: "I am looking forward to integrating Sanchez into the squad but I don't think Sanchez will come to Austria because he has to go to Paris to get a visa.
"So he will only go to London Colney on Tuesday and we come back from Austria on Thursday so he will work in London.
"Alex Oxlade Chamberlin didn't come to New York. We haven't done a lot of training in the last two days so I wanted him to stay back and work with the fitness coaches."
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