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Want to bring your spouse and children to France? Family reunification requires 18 months of residence, income at minimum wage level and suitable housing. OFII file, deadlines and appeals.

Tunisian nationals in France follow their own rules under a 1988 agreement: the employee permit, a list of occupations, a ten-year card after three years and a stay after graduation. What the agreement covers, and what the CESEDA still governs.

Suffering violence and worried about your right to stay? The residence permit for domestic violence victims protects you: protection order, residence card, renewal, resident card and support.

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.

After four months without an answer, an implicit refusal arises. How to count the deadlines, ask for the reasons, choose between an administrative appeal, the court and urgent relief, and what the ANEF rulings change.

Separation or divorce: what happens to your permit as the spouse of a French national? Shared life, renewal, resident card, withdrawal and the exceptions for violence or a French child.

Residence permit fees in France rose sharply on 1 May 2026: €350 for a first card, €250 for a renewal. Rates by permit, exemptions, how to buy the electronic tax stamp and how to get a refund.

Moroccan nationals in France follow a 1987 agreement for the employee permit, with a ten-year card after three years. For everything else the CESEDA applies: students, talent, family and status changes.

A student to talent permit switch spares you the work authorisation and can open up to four years of stay. Qualified employee, EU Blue Card, business creation, researcher: the conditions and the 2026 salary thresholds.

Your fixed-term contract becomes permanent? The move from temporary worker to employee requires a new work authorisation. It then opens the multi-year card, with its own conditions.

Leaving your job to start a company? An employee to entrepreneur status change requires the right permit: entrepreneur card, talent card, viability, minimum wage and timing.

Married to a French national, PACS partner, parent of a French child, or settled in France for years? The switch to a private and family life permit follows precise conditions, with or without a long-stay visa.

Want to launch your own business when your studies end? A student to entrepreneur status change goes through the \"entrepreneur / liberal profession\" card: a viable project, income at minimum wage level, an official opinion and the right documents.

A residence permit status change lets you move from one ground of stay to another without leaving France. Filing window, ANEF, extension certificate, processing times, the most common switches and appeals after a refusal.

Master's degree in hand and still looking for a job, or planning a business? The job search permit gives you one year in France. Eligible degrees, work allowed, the switch to employee or entrepreneur, and the return within four years.

An expired residence permit changes everything the next morning, for work, family benefits and health cover. What still protects you, how to catch up within six months and how to avoid a removal order.

Residence permit renewal starts four months before expiry. The filing window, ANEF or prefecture, the documents, the 2026 fees, late filing and the silence of the administration: the full picture.

A residence permit refusal runs on a deadline of two months, or one month where a removal order comes with it. How to read the decision, the usual grounds, internal review, the court claim and legal aid.

An OQTF appeal runs on very short deadlines, from one month down to 48 hours. The grounds the prefecture relies on, the 2026 deadlines, how to file, what an appeal suspends and what the judge reviews.

A residence permit receipt proves your right to stay while the prefecture decides, and the ANEF certificates do not all carry the same effects. Who gets what, how long it lasts, working, benefits and travelling.

Holding a card does not end your duties. Residence permit obligations cover changes of address, the republican commitment contract, identity checks, replacement cards, absences abroad and the limits on working.

The civic exam has been required since 1 January 2026 for a first multi-year card, a first resident card and naturalisation. Who has to sit it, the format, where to register, the price, exemptions and what happens if you fail.

Prefecture delays leave applicants waiting for months, sometimes losing a job in the process. What four months of silence means, the certificate that keeps you lawful, and five remedies from a written reminder to the judge.

A student status change follows a strict calendar, and a signed contract is not enough to work full time. Which permit to aim for, the work authorisation, the labour market test, when to file, the fees and the costly mistakes.

The ten-year resident card changes daily life, but its conditions tightened on 1 January 2026. Five years of lawful stay, income at minimum wage level, level B1, the civic exam, cards granted as of right, fees and how you can lose it.

Exceptional leave to remain is the usual route to regularisation, granted case by case. The 2025 circular, the shortage-occupation permit until 31 December 2026, the evidence to gather, the cost and the risk of a removal order.