A 4-year residence, renewable.
The Talent card is multi-year from day one — up to four years, renewable while the business remains real and you meet the conditions. No annual renewal anxiety.
Source Art. L. 421-16 · CESEDA
France · Talent Passport
Residence in France for up to 4 Years — Through Your Own Company
Build your own French company and live there on the Talent Passport (porteur de projet) — a residence card of up to four years. We prepare the whole dossier the Ministry reads in one direction; the authorities decide.
from €10,000
We reply within one business day
Independent immigration advisers — not a government service, not affiliated with any consulate. Our service fees do not include consular fees.
The Talent Passport for project holders (porteur de projet) is how a non-EU founder builds a real company in France and lives there on a multi-year residence card. It is not a shortcut and not a shelf company: France now weighs whether your project is real and serious before the visa is ever considered. That review is exactly what our dossier is structured around.
What we hand over
A dossier the Ministry’s reviewer can read as one coherent case. The pages below are from a real file we prepared — every name and identifier redacted.
The concept, the market position, and the founder’s case — the one story the whole file tells.
Real European and French demand, sized and sourced — not a generic template a reviewer has seen before.
A three-year forecast an accountant will sign — numbers that reconcile with the plan, line by line.
Pages from a real dossier we prepared — brand and personal data removed.
● The certificate · redacted
The DRIEETS certificate recognising a business-creation project as “real and serious” — the decisive step before a Talent Passport. Names and identifiers are covered with opaque plaques; the recognition wording is not.
Eligibility check
Find out whether this route fits you.
Not legal advice — a practical filter for citizenship, income, family and timing. A couple of minutes, no sign-up.
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What is your citizenship?
What you get
One application. Four things that change your life in Europe.
Every claim below is verifiable against the source texts. This is what the Talent Passport route actually grants when the project convinces.
Your family comes with you.
Your spouse and minor children receive the related Talent family card (passeport talent « famille ») for the same duration — simplified, without classic family reunification. Your spouse has full work rights.
Source Service-Public.gouv.fr · F16922
Your own business, your EU base.
You don’t join an employer — you build your own French company around the work you already do: consulting, agency, services, product. France becomes the legal home of your professional life in Europe.
Source Décret n° 2025-539 · 13 June 2025
Renewals, then a longer-term card.
Every Talent card is renewable — and we stay on for the renewals, not just the first filing. After five years of continuous, documented residence you may apply for a ten-year resident card. This route builds exactly the record those longer-term options rest on.
Source Subject to conditions — confirmed with our lawyer
The route asks one hard thing in return: a project France finds real and serious. That part — is our work.
Regulatory context · 2025
Three reasons the Business Creator route is the credible path right now.
Three shifts in 2025 reshaped how non-EU founders should think about France residence. Each is verifiable; together they make the case for a serious dossier.
The three 2025 shifts — expand
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The visitor route is for the genuinely non-working.
The visitor status carries a commitment: no professional activity in France for a French employer. How remote work for an employer abroad fits this line was clarified in June 2026 — see the visitor route. For founders who want to actively build and run a business in France, the Talent Passport is the credible structure.
Source Art. L. 426-20 · CESEDA
MoI written answer · June 2026
MoI written answer · June 2026
02
France has no digital-nomad visa — and none is announced.
Policy discussions in 2023 and 2024 did not produce a remote-work visa, and the government has not signalled one is forthcoming. For non-EU founders who want to live and work in France legally, the Talent Passport route remains the credible structure.
Source Service-Public.gouv.fr · F16922
03
Economic immigration is contracting. Talent isn’t.
Total first economic permits fell 12.6% in 2025 to ~51,190. Talent permits, by contrast, grew 4.2%. US first permits across all categories rose 14.3% to about 15,000 — one of the few growing legal on-ramps for English-speaking founders.
Source DGEF · 27 January 2026
Provisional release
Provisional release
Who this is for
Three founder profiles where this route works.
We work with serious operators, not lifestyle movers. If your situation differs in shape but not in seriousness, the eligibility check can confirm fit.
01 · The American strategy consultant
Solo or two-person practice, US clients, looking for an EU base without losing the book.
Mid-career independent advising US companies on strategy, growth, product, or technology. Revenue is real and largely portable; relocation is about lifestyle, family, and a stable European address. The Talent Passport route lets the same activity continue inside a French legal structure rather than disappearing under visitor-visa ambiguity.
02 · The British agency owner
Owner-operator of a small service business, relocating self and key family to France.
Established agency or studio (5–15 people, or pre-Brexit consulting shop) with a defensible portfolio and client list. Wants France for family reasons, market reasons, or both. Often relocating self plus spouse with career ambitions — making the Talent family card work rights a decisive factor.
03 · The Canadian fractional operator
Senior independent serving multiple companies on retainer, ready to anchor in Europe.
Former operator now working as fractional CFO, CTO, COO, or senior advisor across three to six clients. Has institutional credibility, fee income at executive levels, and no employer dependency. France becomes the legal anchor for a European-facing professional life.
If none of these matches but you think it should, the short eligibility check gives a direct answer — no sign-up.
Take the check →Pricing
Full support for a serious founder project — at a fixed fee agreed upfront.
Every dossier we have filed so far has been approved. If the authority refuses, we re-file at no extra fee.
Consultation
First consultation is free (15–30 min). A paid in-depth case review follows, credited in full against your package if you proceed.
Included (Route 1)
Eligibility & route review · business plan · founder presentation · market study · accountant-signed financial forecast · document checklist & dossier structure · 2 revision rounds · final readiness review.
We provide, quoted separately
Company registration · French legal address (domiciliation) · capital-deposit coordination — priced on top, not bundled.
Your own external costs
Government, visa & prefecture fees · the €30,000 capital (stays yours, inside your company) · notary · sworn translations · ongoing accounting.
If the diagnostic shows your case is weak, we say so and you keep the readiness notes. We do not sell dossiers to poor-fit applicants. Payment: 50% at signing · 40% before translations · 10% on the favourable opinion.
Independent private consultancy — not affiliated with any government and not a law firm. This is a fixed fee for dossier preparation and coordination. The €30,000 project capital stays yours, inside your company. Government, visa and prefecture fees are paid separately, directly to the state. The Ministry, consulate and prefecture alone decide the outcome.
Sworn translations and apostilles are billed separately, per document.
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Client words
People we have guided through — in their words.
I want to thank the whole Solvient Immigration team. They work skilfully and smoothly — they guided me by the hand all the way to the residence permit; it was never daunting, and at times even fun.
The Solvient Immigration team has deep expertise in the Talent Passport. What I valued most was the workflow — every question resolved on time, always reachable, consistently high-quality work. They wrote a business plan I will genuinely use, kept to every deadline, and the case was approved on the first submission in 13 days. Highly recommended.
Your team
Who prepares your file
Behind them, a local bench — a lawyer for legal review, a chartered accountant, and sworn translators.
Meet the full team →The step most applicants underestimate
Before the visa, the Ministry of Economy decides whether your project is real. They do not explain refusals.
In June 2025, France formalised a procedural step that had been operating informally for years. Before any business-creator visa application can move forward, the Ministry of Economy now issues a mandatory opinion — favourable or unfavourable — on whether the project is real, serious, and economically coherent. The opinion is grounded in Article R. 421-33 of the French immigration code.
The opinion is binary. Unfavourable opinions are not accompanied by reasoned explanations. The applicant learns that the project did not pass, but not why. Reconstructing a viable dossier without that signal typically costs the applicant 6 to 12 months and a second submission.
This is where the dossier work matters. A weak business plan, an internally inconsistent financial forecast, a market study that does not engage with French demand, a founder profile that does not match the proposed activity — any of these will fail the viability test. None will be cited as the cause.
Our work is to pre-empt that rejection logic before filing. We build the business plan, market analysis, accountant-signed financial forecast, and founder presentation so that the reviewer can read the file in one direction: real activity, real investment, real demand, real applicant. The visa decision belongs to the authorities. Our job is to answer every question the reviewer will ask on the business case.
“Is this file ready to stand up to the viability review?”
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Business plan — coherent and France-specific
Activity, market, and founder profile tell one story
✓
Market study — engages real French demand
Not a generic template; sourced and local
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Financial forecast — internally consistent, accountant-signed
Numbers reconcile with the plan
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Proof of funds — one document still missing
€30,000 capacity needs a current statement — from you
● Surfaced before filing, not after refusal We find the gap. You close it.
Fig. 2 — how we read a file the way the Ministry’s reviewer will
Get in touch
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FAQ
Answers in the words you searched.
Can you promise a visa?
No. Only the French authorities decide. We prepare a serious, coherent business dossier and identify the risks before filing, so the business case answers the questions reviewers actually ask.
Is this legal advice?
No. We prepare business-dossier materials. Immigration legal advice or representation requires a qualified lawyer — we bring ours in for the legal questions and flag them for you.
Do I need a tech startup?
Not necessarily. A credible consulting, agency or service business can be suitable if your background, investment and business plan support the project.
Is the €30,000 investment part of your fee?
No. It is your own capital, it stays inside your company, and it is separate from our fee. You must be able to justify the funding for the project.
Can you open the company for me?
Yes — company registration and your French legal address are services we provide, quoted separately on top of the dossier package. Government fees and notary charges are your own costs.
Why include an accountant-signed financial forecast?
Because the financial plan has to read as credible and internally consistent. We include the accountant-signed forecast in the core package to strengthen the dossier against the viability review.
Can my spouse work in France?
Yes — under the Talent family card the spouse has full access to the labour market for the duration of the card. We flag family-specific legal questions for lawyer review.
How long does the whole process take?
Dossier preparation is typically 4–6 weeks from an idea. End-to-end — viability opinion, visa, arrival, prefecture — usually lands at 4–6 months. Authority timelines are theirs, not ours.
What if I am not eligible yet?
We tell you, in writing, with the specific blockers. Some founders return later with funding or evidence in place; some routes — in France or Spain — fit better, and we point honestly.
Start here
Check your eligibility and talk through your project.
Take the short check and book a free consultation. If your case fits, we move to the dossier build.
- Step 01 Eligibility check
- Step 02 Free consultation
- Step 03 Dossier build
- Step 04 Visa & residence card