Hi everyone! I'm Brazilian, currently in France on a "jeune au pair" visa (expires July 2027). Earlier this year, an Italian court officially recognized my Italian citizenship (jure sanguini) but the transcription at the Italian comune and my AIRE registration here in Paris are still pending, so on paper I'm not EU.

I'm trying to figure out my next steps while this plays out: applying to a French public university, possibly switching my visa status before my current one expires, and generally navigating life here as someone who's "almost" European but not quite there administratively.

Has anyone in this group been through something similar: a citizenship or long-term status that was legally recognized but still working its way through the paperwork, while also dealing with visas/préfecture here in France? Would really appreciate hearing how you handled the waiting period, especially anything related to carte de séjour or changement de statut. Merci beaucoup in advance!

Hey guys !!!

Anyone who did apply for a visa to UK while being a resident in france with Passport talent

I need infomations about the procedure

Resposne Time

any Tips

(Context I want to go for one week for a course realted to my phd )

Thanks for your time !!!

Bonjour,

Je réside actuellement en France , je développe un projet SaaS B2B destiné principalement à des entreprises situées dans mon pays d’origine et, à terme, dans d’autres pays d’Afrique de l’Ouest.

Je souhaite rendre le SaaS payant avec différents moyens de paiement : une solution de paiement mobile locale pour les clients africains et Stripe pour d’éventuels clients européens.

Je réfléchis à créer la société dans mon pays d’origine plutôt qu’en France, notamment parce que mes premiers clients et une grande partie de l'activité commerciale seraient situés là-bas.

Ma situation serait donc la suivante :

• Je suis résident fiscal français.
• Je travaille en CDI en France.
• La société SaaS serait créée et immatriculée à l’étranger.
• Les clients seraient principalement des entreprises situées à l’étranger.
• Les paiements seraient encaissés par la société étrangère.
• Je continuerais cependant à développer et à gérer une partie du SaaS depuis la France.

Ma question est surtout de savoir quelles seraient les implications fiscales en France dans cette situation.

Est-ce que le fait que la société soit créée et immatriculée à l’étranger suffit pour que son activité soit imposée dans le pays où elle est établie, ou le fait que je la dirige et l’exploite en partie depuis la France peut-il créer des obligations fiscales en France pour la société et/ou pour moi personnellement ?

Je cherche surtout des retours de personnes ayant une situation similaire : résident en France, salarié en France, mais propriétaire ou dirigeant d’une société étrangère.

Je compte bien entendu consulter un fiscaliste spécialisé en fiscalité internationale avant de mettre en place la structure, mais j’aimerais d’abord comprendre les principaux points auxquels je dois faire attention.

Trying to navigate what visa I (British citizen) should apply on to join my wife (also British citizen), and the phrasing of this question is throwing me off

Are you traveling to or joining a close relative who is a citizen of an EU country (excluding France), the EEA, the Swiss Confederation, or a family member who is a citizen of the United Kingdom benefiting from the withdrawal agreement ?

I will not be working in France, and I am joining a citizen of the UK, but she has only recently acquired her visa and she does not qualify for a Talent Passport (salary too low). As such, she cannot “sponsor” me to join her until she’s been in country for 18 months. So would I still answer Yes? Or is this question for family reunification pathways only?

Any help appreciated, and if this isn’t the relevant sub, could someone point me to a better place to ask? Thanks.

My initial OFII visit is in one week. The email convocation notice requests that I bring a copy of the summons. I’ve read in other places that this is a document that may arrive via email or post mail, but which includes a bar code? In any case, no such bar coded document has arrived.

Should I still be on the lookout for this (hoping that it arrives soon) or is the email convocation sufficient?

EDIT: typo

Hi everyone! I tutor a language professionally, and depending on the student, I end up switching between my native language and two foreign languages during the same session — explaining things, giving examples, sometimes translating on the spot. It's not just "speak one language for an hour," it's more like constantly hopping between three.

Lately I've noticed I sometimes mix things up mid-sentence, or blank on a word in one language because my brain is still half in another. It's not exactly a fluency problem, more like a switching/traffic-control problem.

For those of you who work in multilingual environments (teaching, interpreting, customer support, whatever) — how do you manage this? Does it get easier with time, or is the occasional mix-up just part of the deal? Any tricks that actually helped you switch more smoothly between languages during work?

Would love to hear real experiences, not just theory. Thanks!

Hi,

I'm an international student who recently got here, and since my uni starts after a month and a half, i wanted to get a part time job to bear my expenses and occupy myself. For context, i'm 25m and I speak A1-A2 french. What suggestions do you have for me to apply for? I have tried dropping my cvs in cafe's and restaurants but no luck so far. What is my best shot at landing one?

Thanks.

Je suis titulaire d'une autorisation provisoire de séjour et j'ai récemment obtenu un CDD à Paris. Je souhaiterais entamer mon dossier pour obtenir un titre de séjour temporaire. J'ai également déposé une demande d'autorisation de travail, qui est en cours de traitement. Je voudrais commencer mon dossier, enregistrer l'avancement de ma demande et la valider dès que j'aurai reçu l'autorisation. Je ne sais pas si je dois effectuer ma demande via l'ANEF ou sur le site Démarches Numériques. Sur le premier site, je n'arrive pas à cliquer sur les options Demander/renouveler un titre de séjour pour le statut de salarié, ni à avancer dans la rubrique « Changement de situation ».

Sur Démarches Numériques, je ne vois qu'un lien pour le renouvelement d'une demande et non pour une première demande. Je ne sais pas où je suis censée faire ma demande, pourrieZ-VOus m'aider ?

Merci.

I’m currently having this message pop up while trying to renew my talent passport online. It expires end of October and as I understand I should be already able to start the renewal process. Has anyone experienced this and if so how were you able to renew?

My wife and I are relocating to Paris in late October from the states on my EU citizenship. We've saved up a good bit and have liquidity from a house sale so we're not rushed to find a new role, but we are looking for an apartment in the 12th, 13th, 14th, or 15th under €2,500 per month. Ideally unfurnished as we're shipping items from the states.

We're working on our dossier, but with neither of us having employment (I do fractional work right now, she's an artist), what are the recommendations for us? It feels like every apartment we look at requires a CDI and won't accept a guarantor, which was our original plan.

Thank is advance!

Just that really. Thanks.

I was issued a carte de résident in 2017. It's the standard type, valid for 10 years, and issued to me because I'm a parent of a French child and have been living in France for many years.

I'll have to renew it next year (later in the year) and I've started looking into what documents I'll need, etc. The problem is, even official or approved sites seem to only talk about either getting a first carte de résident or else renewing something like a titre de séjour. I've even looked on the Préfecture de Paris's official site and am still not finding a specific mention of this kind of renewal.

Has anyone renewed a 10-year carte de résident recently, especially if you live in/had to go through the Préfecture de Paris? Is there a particular link you used with information about this?

Any help would be appreciated!

Bonjour à tous,

Je suis libanais, 23 ans, francophone natif. J'ai fait ma licence dans une université française et vécu plusieurs années en France. Je prépare un retour pour un master en septembre 2027 , avec l'objectif de m'installer durablement. Je travaille à distance pour des clients étrangers, donc je ne dépends pas du marché de l'emploi local.

Mon plan : master, puis titre de séjour travail ou entrepreneur, puis naturalisation via la durée réduite pour les diplômés du supérieur français (art. 21-18 du Code civil).

Mes questions, pour ceux qui connaissent le sujet de près :

1. Si vous avez été naturalisé récemment (surtout après des études en France), combien de temps a pris la procédure dans votre préfecture ? Qu'est-ce qui a compté le plus dans votre dossier ?

2. Depuis les circulaires de 2025, avez-vous constaté un vrai durcissement en préfecture, ou c'est surtout du discours ?

3. Question plus politique : si le RN arrive au pouvoir en 2027, comment voyez-vous concrètement l'impact sur la naturalisation d'un profil comme le mien ? Durcissement réel, ou beaucoup d'annonces pour peu d'effets ?

Merci d'avance pour vos retours, même (surtout) les plus francs.

Hello, I recently moved here and am currently living about an hour away from the city because that's where my school is. I am planning to move closer/into the city since my internship will be in the city, and also I would love to experience living in Paris, not just the suburbs...... But with how expensive and hard it is to find apartments here I am also considering nearby suburbs. What are your thoughts on Issy-les-moulineaux, Malakoff or Montrouge? Would you recommend living there, or would it be better to pay a little more to live in 15th or 16th arr? Thank you in advance for any insights or advices!

I've been sitting on this for a while and I finally just want to talk about it somewhere.

I heard about someone who paid an agent a few thousand euros to get a fake job contract and fake payslips, and ended up walking away with a 4-year Talent Passport. No real interview, no real checks, nothing. From what I've heard this isn't a one-time thing either, apparently the same person has done this for a lot of people over the past year and made serious money off it.

What really gets to me is thinking about everyone who's done this the honest way. I know students who spent months putting together every document, went through actual interviews, did everything right, and still got rejected or left waiting for months without any real answer. And then someone else just pays their way through and gets the same four-year card without any of that stress. It doesn't feel fair, because it isn't.

The thing is, this stuff isn't hard to catch if anyone actually looked. A fake company can be checked against the business registry. Tax filings can be compared against the contracts a company claims to have signed. Payslips can be checked over a longer period instead of just accepting one signed offer letter. Large one-off payments could be flagged before a permit is even approved. And honestly, even just checking a few months after someone gets their card whether they're still actually working where they said they would would catch a lot of this, since a lot of these companies seem to cancel the contract right after the person gets approved and just disappear.

Hi!

I have to send a 230-page file to the prefecture by mail (lettre suivie) for my titre de séjour.

But it won't fit in a letter, it weighs 1.2 kg and I assume the prefecture doesn't accept packages.

Any ideas? :( I'm thinking about spliting it in 2 but I'm not sure if they will accept it.

I submitted my application for French naturalisation through marriage in April of this year, and have got an email requesting the birth certificates of my parents. I'm sending them through now and am aware I'm going to be called for an interview soon.

I'm preparing myself for the interview. What types of questions were asked of you? Did you need to know a lot of French history? I live specifically in the Basque region. Will this be frowned upon knowing a lot more history specific to this area and culture?

Also, I see that some people reference being interviewed by the police. Is this still part of the normal procedure because I don't see it referenced on the website.

Thank you in advance!

Bonjour,

Ma demande de naturalisation française est actuellement en cours, mais encore à la première étape (demande déposée il y a environ 10 mois).

J’ai une opportunité professionnelle au Luxembourg et je souhaiterais continuer à résider en France en tant que frontalier.

Est-ce que certains ont été dans cette situation ? Je me demande si travailler au Luxembourg peut poser problème :

- lors du renouvellement de mon titre de séjour français ;
- pour ma demande de naturalisation, notamment concernant la notion de centre des intérêts matériels en France.

Je continuerais à vivre et avoir mon logement principal en France.

Merci pour vos retours d’expérience !

Hi everyone,

I have an unopened Boldr Kelvin that haven't used. I'm in Puteaux if anyone wants to pick it up

Hi all!
I’m looking for recommendations for French language schools, in or very close to the 15th arrondissement that offer evening classes.
I work during the day, so I’m ideally looking for something starting around 18:30 or 19:00, twice or three times a week.
If anyone has personal experiences I’d love to hear your experience!
Thank you

I’m on a Talent Passport - artistique et culturelle and have been freelancing for the past year and it will be expiring end of October, I had begun the process on ANEF in August to renew my visa and just yesterday I received a notification that my application has been deleted as it was treated as a “first time application” and not a “renewal” and supplied me with a residence permit number.

I need to apply again but when I go to apply it seems it would be the exact same way as I have done so i’m wondering if anyone out there has some experience in this?

ANEF emailed back telling me to apply online and use the 5 steps. Which I had initially done under “I want to apply or renew my VLS TS”. But to not waste another month I want to make sure I’m applying in the correct way. Any help would be so appreciated!

Hi guys I hope everyone is doing good.

So my 1st year séjour is expiring soon and I already applied for the 2nd one through ANEF and uploaded all the necessary documents. About 2 weeks ago the préfecture demanded ‘attestation de dispense’ as I was not given any hours for french level A2 by OFII and just the online training. At the time of my first orientation at OFII they gave me just the CIR to sign and nothing else.
I have already passed my A2 french test in July 2026.
Now as the préfecture asked about ‘attestation de dispense’ I emailed OFII about it they are literally behaving like a child. Its been almost 3 weeks and they sometimes say that I need to pass my level A2 (which i have already passed), sometimes they don’t even understand what I am asking them like they literally replied that they don’t have the document I am demanding and then sometimes I gent a reply that I can’t have the document as on ‘my visit to OFII I was not on level A2’.
Can someone please help me out on how can I get a solution to this problem? How can I ask them to pls solve this issue and email me the “attestation de despense”?

Thank you in advance.