Julian
Lawyer · Toulouse, France
- 117 cases handled
- 39+ years in practice
- Speaks: English, Spanish, German, French
- Law with Honours, Liverpool University
Free tool · France
France Visa Requirements: Do You Qualify?
Check whether your income or savings meet France's requirements for Visitor long-stay visa (visiteur) for your whole family.
How it works
Using the checker
- Enter who moves with you: the adults besides you (a spouse or partner, dependent parents) and the children.
- Enter your monthly income before tax and the savings you can show.
- Each route shows the amount it asks of your household and whether your figures meet it — by income, or by savings where the rules accept them.
The routes and how the amounts are worked out
- Visitor long-stay visa (visiteur) — Living in France on your own means without working (retirees, people of independent means). Your own resources of at least the net minimum wage (SMIC, €1,477.93 a month since June 2026), with a promise not to work. Each adult applies with their own resources (counted here for every adult); savings, pensions or a guarantor's support are accepted in practice. One year, renewable. France has no digital nomad visa.
- Talent passport — investor — A direct economic investment in France, personally or through a company you run or own 30% of. €300,000 in the fixed assets of a French business, creating or keeping jobs within 4 years A card of up to 4 years; the family gets a talent passport family card.
Money is not the only requirement
Every route also asks for health insurance, a clean criminal record and documents proving the income, translated and legalised where required. A lawyer checks the whole file before you apply and helps with the residence permit after arrival.
1Your details
Spouse or partner, dependent parents
Salary, pension, rents, remote work
Money in the bank you can show
2Your result
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Your figures meet it
Visitor long-stay visa (visiteur)
Living in France on your own means without working (retirees, people of independent means)
- Income needed for your household
- €2,956 / month
- Or savings of
- €35,470
Your own resources of at least the net minimum wage (SMIC, €1,477.93 a month since June 2026), with a promise not to work.
Each adult applies with their own resources (counted here for every adult); savings, pensions or a guarantor's support are accepted in practice. One year, renewable. France has no digital nomad visa.
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Depends on the investment
Talent passport — investor
A direct economic investment in France, personally or through a company you run or own 30% of
- Investment
- €300,000 in the fixed assets of a French business, creating or keeping jobs within 4 years
A card of up to 4 years; the family gets a talent passport family card.
Lawyers for the Talent passport — investor →
An estimate for planning, not legal or tax advice. Figures checked 26 Oct 2026. Sources: Service-public — SMIC 2026, Préfecture des Alpes-Maritimes — visitor card.
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