The Talent Passport, prepared and filed by a lawyer of the Paris Bar. One lawyer handles the business plan, the company and the immigration file, in English, from the first call to your arrival in France. Your spouse and children are covered.
Sintes Dingamgoto — Lawyer, member of the Paris and Chad Bars · 79 rue d'Amsterdam, Paris 8
Setting up in France as a foreign entrepreneur is harder than it should be, and rarely because of the project itself. The rules are spread across the Immigration Code, company law, banking practice and consular procedure; they change often; and almost nothing is explained in one place, in plain language, to the person who actually has to decide. Most founders we meet have already spent months collecting partial answers, each one correct in isolation and misleading when put together.
The firm was built on that observation. We chose to concentrate on one thing: making the opportunities French law offers to foreign entrepreneurs legible, then turning them into a file that is accepted. That means knowing which of the three Talent Passport routes fits a given profile, which permit applies when a founder buys rather than creates, what the DRIEETS examiner is really looking for in a business plan, and in what order the steps must be taken so that none of them blocks the next.
It also means solving the practical problems that stand between a founder abroad and a French company — such as depositing the share capital when no French bank will open an account before you arrive, a point on which the Paris Bar's escrow mechanism offers a lawful and well-established answer.
The first call tells you which route, if any, fits your profile. If none does, we say so.
Eligibility opinion, articles of association, business plan, submission letter: each step produces something that is yours.
So that the articles, the forecast and the application tell exactly the same story to the administration.
The « talent — porteur de projet » permit (Article L. 421-16 of the French Immigration Code) gives a founder and their family a residence permit of up to four years, issued from the first application. It opens three doors. Choosing the right one from the outset decides most of what follows.
You create a company in France. A master's-level degree or five years of comparable experience, a real and serious project, and €30,000 of funding deposited in France. The route most founders use.
Your project is recognised as innovative by the Ministry of the Economy. No degree condition, no €30,000 threshold, a specific recognition procedure. Read more →
At least €300,000 invested in tangible or intangible assets, personally or through a company you run or hold at least 30% of, with jobs created or preserved within four years.
Buying an existing business or shares does not qualify under any of the three routes: the right permit is then the one-year « entrepreneur / profession libérale » permit (Article L. 421-5 CESEDA). Buying a business in France →
Lawyer, member of the Paris and Chad Bars. My practice covers business law and the establishment of foreign founders in France. I work in French and in English, and I handle each file personally, from the first call to the filing and beyond.
Everything you send me is covered by professional secrecy under French law — a duty that binds lawyers and that consultancies and relocation agencies are not subject to.
Short, sourced articles written by the lawyer who files the applications. In English, with the articles of law cited.
163 nationalities, the Algerian exception, the UK after Brexit.
Who qualifies, who vouches for you, what the Ministry checks.
Forms, capital, registration and the bank-account question, in order.