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Resident permit for skills and talents

This permit has been created for the Chinese citizens with capability to develop their special skills into full play or the ones with competent preeminence to promote the mutual economic development between FRANCE and CHINA. The candidates are supposed to provide the detailed projects in order to get such permit.

This permit prefers some fully-developed and competent scholars and personals in the fields of economy, culture, sports, science, intellectual or charity etc. The basic requirements includes : the bachelor degree with three-year working experiences, the master degree with one-year working experiences or the doctor degree.

We prefer the candidates to provide the related forcible materials concerning the introduction on their professional programs to get this permit for the smooth examination and endorsement by the French Ambassador.

The documents that should be prepared includes : (in duplicate)

1. Self-recommendation letter presenting in details on the professional program and elaborating what the mutual benefits lie in for FRANCE and CHINA. The professional program should be one of the following three options:

    Industrial, commercial or craft (entrepreneur) in this case, investments' volumes cannot be less than 300,000 €uros or create equally at least more than two job positions( including the candidates).
    The freelance ( prestigeous authors, translators, high-level sportsmen, artists, etc ...)
    The senior employees: (high-income getters)
2. Details from the candidate: personal adress, telephone number, and e-mail.

3. Resume.

4. The highest school records and related documents with notarization that can prove the competence of the candidates to carry out the planned programs.

5. The tax rolls paid by the candidates in their residence countries.

6. The innocence-prove certificates drew up by the residence countries the candidates settle down for three years.

7. If the above projects concern the senior employees, they need to hand on the complementary documents as followed:
    (a) The letters proved by French company to classify the reasons of employing the candidates and the details about the positions they get.

    (b) Working Contract ( the concerned CERFA excel of the working position can be downloaded on http://www.travail-solidarite.gouv.fr/formulaires/55.html). The job category in the working contract is supposed to accord with the candidate's qualification, experiences, specialized fields and diplomas.
The candidates who are qualified with the above requirements can submit the documents directly to the General French Consulate in Shanghai to apply for talent resident permit. This kind of visa belongs to long stay visa. The Consulate will offer the receipt to prove the acceptance of the application.

The candidates can go through on the website of French Visa Application Center or dial 33303600 to make the appointment (9:00 to 17:00 Mon to Fri).

The procedures in the process of applying for the talents resident permit visa:

    1. Fees for application: equate to 99 €uros ( in line with the floating currency rate, and the Consulate will not accept Euros)
    2. Fill up three Long-Stay visa application forms completely and sign the names
    3. Six identity photos with clear background (33mm x 44mm)
    4. Notarial birth certificate. If necessary, marriage notarial certificate and the notarial birth certificate of the candidates' spouses and children.
    5. The original passport and the first five pages of passport copies, all the pages with visa stamps and all the ones with seals.
    6. Hukou original and copies of all the details in it.
    7. The resident permit issued by government of Shanghai, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang.
    8. Bank deposit original and copy.
    9. Bank statement original and copy.
    10. Booking flight ticket copy
    11. Schengen medical reimbursement insurance original and copy.
Suppose the candidates family wants to apply for such kind of visa : they need to provide other documents as following: 
  • Marriage certificate original, copy and translation 
  • Family relationship notariazation of the children and accredited by Waiban if it's necessary. 
  • Bank deposit original and copy if it's necessary.
The family members with this permit needn't apply for Family Regroup visa. They will get the certificate entitled "private and family life" and they can work in France.

If it is necessary, we will ask to the candidate to give a presentation on the details of his program and project, and after that the Consulate will put forward the evaluation.

It will take 1 month to examinate the documents in the whole procedures.

Once the French Consulate approves the application, the visa with 3-month validity will be offered.
  • The issued letter of "talent resident permit". 
  • The sample letter signed by the candidate with the date to guarantee that after he gets the permit he will finally go back to his own country.
After arriving in France, the permit holder must go to the local police station to apply for the resident permit. Before getting 3-year valid "talent resident permit", the candidate has 6 months to handle the medical attestation proved by ANAEM.

ATTENTION:
  • Two sets of documents require the originals. All the materials in Chinese need the translation in French or English.
  • Incomplete documents will be rejected/refused.
  • The Embassy will not guarantee the every success of the visa application even if the complete documents are provided.
  • The rights of asking other information and materials are reserved by the Embassy.
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