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Foreigner in France: Multi-annual residence card - ICT seconded employee
Verified 01 January 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
If you're a foreigner, no European and come to France (as an executive or expert) for a mission in a company of the group that employs you, you can request a residence card ICT posted employee. The card is valid for up to 3 years. If the duration of stay is more than 3 months and 1 year maximum, a long-stay visa valid as a residence permit (VL-TS) ICT posted employee enough.
What applies to you ?
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The multi-year residence card ICT posted employee allows you to stay in France to carry out a more than 1 year during a intercompany temporary transfer (Intra corporate transfer).
You are affected if you meet all of the following conditions:
- You foreigner (except European or Algerian),
- You have long-stay visa or VLS-TS ICT posted employee,
- You are coming to France for hold a senior management position or provide expertise,
- you have employment contract with the company that employs you abroad,
- You have seniority of at least 6 months in the group that employs you.
Warning
other rules apply if you are Algerian. If you European, you do not need a residence permit.
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You live abroad
You must apply to consular authorities in your country of residence.
Who shall I contact
You live in France
You must submit your application for a card within 2 months of the end date of your visa (or residence permit) with the prefecture (or sub-prefecture) of your home. Find out more on the Prefecture's website.
If your file is complete, you will receive a revived pending the prefecture's response.
- Long-stay visa or valid residence permit
- Passport (pages on marital status, validity dates, entry stamps and visas). Otherwise, other supporting documents (e.g. consular certificate, identity card, consular card).
- Proof of domicile less than 6 months
- 3 photos. If the request is made on the Internet: indicate the code of the e-photo (provided by the photographer or the approved cabin on the photo board).
- Form cerfa 15619 and documents requested in this form
- Contract of work in force concluded with the company that employs you outside France or any equivalent document in the law in force locally
- Proof of your seniority for at least 6 months in the company group: employer certificate and pay slips
- Entitlement of resources greater than or equal to €1,709.28 gross per month
- Proof that the company in which you are employed and the one in which your mission is carried out belong to the same group of companies
- Qualifications for executive or expert functions
- If regulated profession : evidence that you meet these conditions
- If you are performing a modelling activity: copy of the modelling agency licence
- If you are performing a live performance activity: Live Entertainment Contractor Licence
- If you are performing occasional live shows: copy of the prior declaration of intervention to the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs
- If necessary: mandate (if you use an agent to carry out your steps)
FYI
civil registration documents must be accompanied by their translation into French by a certified interpreter.
Acceptance or refusal to issue residence card
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Your request is accepted
If your application is accepted, you are summoned to the prefecture for the issue of the title.
Your request is denied
If the prefect has notified you of the refusal
The decision of the Prefect is yours notified by reasoned letter (explicit decision). Except where otherwise provided, such refusal shall be accompanied by obligation to leave French territory (OQTF) fixing the country where you will be returned.
You can form a litigation before the administrative tribunal (within 48 hours, 15 days or 30 days depending on the type of OQTF).
No reply from the Prefect on your request
If the prefecture did not respond after 4 months, it is an implicit refusal.
You can then train within 2 months of this refusal:
- One administrative appeal (ex gratia before the prefect and/or hierarchical remedy to the Minister of the Interior),
- And/or litigation before the administrative tribunal
Warning
if your receipt expires and you do not have a response from the prefecture, the processing time may be extended. In this case, you can get your receipt renewed. Find out more on your prefecture's website.
Card Discount
The card is given to you by the prefecture or sub-prefecture of your home (upon your arrival in France upon presentation of your visa if you have made your request abroad).
You have to pay €225 (sales tax €200 + stamp duty €25) by tax stamps.
The card shall be issued for a period equal to that of the mission (3 years maximum), to which the duration of the stay carried out with a long-stay visa or a VLS-TS is removed.
Example :
2 years maximum after 1 year of VLS-TS.
Card Request
You must submit your renewal application to the prefecture (or sub-prefecture( of your home, within 2 months before its end date.
If your file is complete, you will receive a revived pending the prefecture's response.
Who shall I contact
Who shall I contact
Warning
it is not possible to do the paperwork in some sub-prefectures. Find out more on your prefecture's website.
Documents to be provided
- Valid residence card
- Passport (pages on marital status, validity dates, entry stamps and visas). Otherwise, other supporting documents (e.g. consular certificate, identity card, consular card).
- Proof of domicile less than 6 months
- 3 photos. If the request is made on the Internet: indicate the code of the e-photo (provided by the photographer or the approved cabin on the photo board).
- Form cerfa 15619 and documents requested in this form
- Contract of work in force concluded with the company that employs you outside France or any equivalent document in the law in force locally
- Proof of your seniority for at least 6 months in the company group: employer certificate and pay slips
- Entitlement of resources greater than or equal to €1,709.28 gross per month
- Proof that the company in which you are employed and the one in which your mission is carried out belong to the same group of companies
- Qualifications for executive or expert functions
- If regulated profession : evidence that you meet these conditions
- If you are performing a modelling activity: copy of the modelling agency licence
- If you are performing a live performance activity: Live Entertainment Contractor Licence
- If you are performing occasional live shows: copy of the prior declaration of intervention to the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs
- If necessary: mandate (if you use an agent to carry out your steps)
Your family can benefit from the simplified procedure accompanying family ::
The accompanying family "includes the person you are married to and your minor children. The simplified procedure allows them to come to France for the duration of your stay, without doing the family reunification procedure.
They need to get long-stay visa at the French consulate of their country of residence.
This procedure is applicable even if your family arrives in France after you or if you get married after your arrival in France.
If your family members are already in France on long-stay visas, your spouse must apply for a residence card in the prefecture of his or her place of residence. Your minor children are exempt from the residence card until they reach the age of majority.
Documents to be provided
- Long-stay visa or valid residence permit
- Passport (pages on marital status, validity dates, entry stamps and visas). Otherwise, other supporting documents (e.g. consular certificate, identity card, consular card).
- Proof of domicile less than 6 months
- 3 photos. If the request is made on the Internet: indicate the code of the e-photo (provided by the photographer or the approved cabin on the photo board).
- Your spouse or parent's residence card (or identity card)
- Extract of marriage certificate with the most recent mention or extracts of birth certificate of children with parentage (documents corresponding to the situation at the time of application)
- Certificate of payment of stamp duty (to be handed over at the time of issue of the title)
Where to go?
Who shall I contact
Who shall I contact
Warning
it is not possible to do the paperwork in some sub-prefectures. Find out more on your prefecture's website.
Your spouse and your adult children receive a multi-year residence card ICT seconded employee (family).
The duration of this card is equal to the remaining period of validity of your stay. It entitles the holder to pursue any professional activity.
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles L421-26 to L421-29Conditions of Issuance
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles R421-38 to R421-50Request statement
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles L432-1 to L432-15Refusal and withdrawal of residence card
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles R*432-1 to R432-15Refusal and withdrawal of residence card
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles R433-1 to 433-6Renewal of the residence card
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Articles L436-1 to L436-10Taxes and stamp duty payable
- Code on the entry and residence of foreigners and the right of asylum: Annexe 10List of parts to be supplied: point 16
- Order of 1 April 2021 listing the documents to be provided for the purpose of obtaining a work authorisationDocuments completed by your employer
- Simplified procedure for accompanying familyMinistry of the Interior
- Welcome to France: personalised information for your installation in FranceBusiness