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Renewing a work permit
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If you hold a specific work permit
Your renewal application must be submitted in the two months before your work permit expires.
The following supporting documents must be enclosed with the renewal application:
- Form Cerfa no. 15186*02 in four copies. Please see the explanatory notes.
- An excerpt of the annual social security return (DADS) or employer’s electronic report (DSN) concerning the employee or their last three pay slips.
- Where employment levels may constitute grounds for rejection, evidence of efforts made to find a candidate already in the French labor market.
- Where applicable, a new fixed-term or permanent employment contract or an amendment to an existing contract.
- Where applicable, when the duration of the initial assignment is extended, an amendment to the fixed-term employment contract within the limits laid down in the French Labor Code.
If you hold a VLS-TS or residence permit authorizing paid employment
Your renewal application must be submitted to the Préfecture (office of the Prefect, the local representative of national government) in your place of residence in the two months before it expires.
Conditions for the renewal of these residence documents equivalent to work permits are set out in the Residence permits section.
Visa, staying, working
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Work permit
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Visa
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Residence-permit
- Recruiting a foreign employee: cost for the employer
- Highly skilled employees: “Talent Passport – European Union Blue Card”
- Graduates – “Talent Passport – Qualified employee”
- French Tech Visa for Founders
- ‘Talent Passport –Employee of a young innovative company’ (JEI)
- Talent Passport : new business
- Talent Passport – innovative business project
- Fact sheet : Employees hired by a French company
- French Tech Visa for Employees
- Fact sheet : run a company in France
- Employees transferred within a group: ‘Talent Passport – Employee on assignment’
- Launch your startup in France
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Investors
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Company directors
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Startup founders
- French Tech Visa for Founders
- Talent Passport : new business
- Talent Passport – innovative business project
- Fact sheet : run a company in France
- Launch your startup in France
- Temporary residence permit ‘Entrepreneur/independent professional’
- Resident card
- Residence certificate for “Non-salaried professions”
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Employees
- Recruiting a foreign employee: cost for the employer
- Highly skilled employees: “Talent Passport – European Union Blue Card”
- Graduates – “Talent Passport – Qualified employee”
- ‘Talent Passport –Employee of a young innovative company’ (JEI)
- Fact sheet : Employees hired by a French company
- French Tech Visa for Employees
- Employees transferred within a group: ‘Talent Passport – Employee on assignment’
- Resident card
- Temporary residence permit marked “Temporary worker”
- International service provider
- Intra-corporate transferees (ICT) : seconded employees
- Temporary residence permit marked “Employee”
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Accompanying family
What to do if your employment situation changes
If the reason for your stay in France changes (e.g. from paid employment to starting up your own business), a change of status procedure may be initiated in the two months before the residence permit expires authorizing the foreign national to work in France.
Helpful tip: Some status do not allow the length of stay to be extended once the assignment has been completed (for example, posted employees must leave France once their assignment is completed).