EU long-term resident card (foreigner in France for 5 years)

You must have stayed at least 5 years in France with one or more of the following residence permits:

• Long-stay visa as residence permit
• Temporary residence permit visitor
• Temporary/multi-annual residence card private and family life (excluding subsidiary protection, filing of complaints for certain offenses and testimony in criminal proceedings)
• Temporary/multi-annual residence card salaried worker
• Temporary/multi-annual residence card entrepreneur/professional
• Multi-annual residence permit talent passport (off-mission)
• Resident card.

Your stay in France must have been uninterrupted. However, some absences are allowed (maximum absence of 6 consecutive months for a total absence of 10 months) and are taken into account in the calculation of the 5 years.

If you have a European Blue Card, for at least 2 years in France, you can apply for an EU long-term resident card, provided you have regularly stayed in France or in another country of the European Union (EU) before that period for at least 3 years with one of the following residence cards:

• European Blue Card
• National residence card issued to foreigners in highly skilled jobs
• Researcher's residence permit
• Residence permit issued to foreigners enjoying refugee status or subsidiary protection.

The stay in the EU must have been uninterrupted. However, periods of absence over 5 years are allowed. They must not last more than 12 consecutive months and exceed 18 months in total over the 5-year period.

You must have stable, sufficient and regular resources to support yourself.

Your revenues must be at least Smic: titleContent (€1,801.80 monthly gross). All your own resources are taken into account.

The following family benefits and allowances are excluded: Paje, family allowances, family supplement, housing allowance, AEEH, BSO, ARS, PJPA, RSA, SSA.

The means test shall not apply to persons who collect Disabled Adult Allowance (DAA) or supplementary invalidity allowance (Asi).

This condition shall be assessed in particular with regard to the following:

• Your commitment to respect the principles governing the French Republic (document provided by the prefecture to be signed)
• Effective compliance with these principles
• Your sufficient knowledge of french.

To assess your integration, the prefect asks the mayor of your municipality of residence for an opinion.

This condition shall be assessed in particular with regard to the following:

• Your commitment to respect the principles governing the French Republic (document provided by the prefecture to be signed)
• Effective compliance with these principles.

To assess your integration, the prefect asks the mayor of your municipality of residence for an opinion.

Conditions

Your credit card long-term resident - EU must not be out of date. The card is out of date if you are in one of the following situations:

• You have resided outside the territory of the Member States of the European Union for a period of more than 3 consecutive years
• You have resided outside France for 6 consecutive years
• You have acquired the long-term resident status in another european country.

Approach

You must submit your card application on the Internet as soon as possible 4 months and at the latest 2 months before the expiry of your residence document (visa, VLS-TS or permit):

Apply online for a residence permit, a change of situation, a travel document, an application for ANEF naturalization

If you submit your application after the deadline, except in cases of force majeure or presentation of a valid visa, you will have to pay, in addition to the cost of the card, a visa fee for regularization of the €180.

Documents to be provided:

• Valid EU long-term resident card
• Full copy of birth certificate with the most recent entries

• Passport (pages concerning civil status, validity dates, entry stamps and visas)
  or consular attestation with photo
  or photo ID
  or consular card with photo
  or certificate of nationality under 6 months with photo

• Proof of domicile less than 6 months old

• If you are married: marriage certificate (full copy or extract with parentage) + declaration of non-polygamy if you are a national of a State which authorizes it

• Signed copy of a commitment to respect the principles of the Republic

• e-photo : enter the code of the e-photo (provided by the photographer or the approved cabin on the photo board). If you don't have an e-photo yet, you can locate a digital photo and signature service.

• Proof of payment of stamp duty (to be delivered at the time of delivery of the security)

• Declaration on the honor of no polygamy in France if you are married and are a national of a country that allows it

• Honor certificate stating that you do not have:
  
  • Stayed more than 3 consecutive years outside the EU or more than 6 consecutive years outside France
  • Obtained long-term resident status from another EU country.

Cost

€225 (stamp duty of €25 + tax €200) to be paid by tax stamps. Proof of payment of stamp duty is requested when the card is handed over to the prefecture or sub-prefecture (depending on the place of deposit).

You can apply for permanent resident card.

The decision of the prefect is yours notified by reasoned letter (explicit decision). Except in exceptional circumstances, such refusal shall be accompanied by a obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) setting the country to which you will be returned.

You can form a litigation before the administrative court (within 48 hours, 15 days or 30 days depending on the type of OQTF). You don't have to have a lawyer.

If the prefecture hasn't responded after 4 months, it's an implicit refusal.

You can then train within 2 months from such refusal :

• One administrative appeal (ex gratia appeal before the prefect and/or hierarchical remedy to the Minister of the Interior)
• And/or a litigation before the administrative court. You don't have to have a lawyer.