Carte Visiteur

Staying in France without working to raise your children? The right residence permit for a stay at home parent depends on your family: visitor card, spouse of a French national, family reunification or parent of a French child.

A job offer while you live in France on a visitor card? A visitor to employee status change remains possible, but it goes through a work authorisation, a sometimes reluctant prefecture and a strict calendar.

You live in France on a visitor card or visa and want to go back to studying? A visitor to student status change sometimes happens at the prefecture, sometimes at the consulate. Here is how to tell which one awaits you.

A business project while you live in France on a visitor card? A visitor to entrepreneur status change requires a viable activity, income at least equal to the minimum wage and a precise order, with no early micro-business.