What is a proof of application for a residence card?
Verified 20 January 2022 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
When you apply for a residence card online, you receive a provisional document called certificate. This document allows you to work in some cases.
The dematerialized certificate is a provisional document that is issued to you during a 1re application for or renewal of a residence card made online.
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Certificate of submission of application for a residence card
When you apply for a residence permit by online service, you will immediately receive a paperless online deposit certificate.
This certificate is not a temporary residence document. It does not justify the regularity of your stay.
Certificate of extension of the processing of the application for a residence card
If you submit a complete application for a residence card within the time limit imposed by the regulations, you will receive, via the online service, a certificate of extension of investigation.
This certificate is a temporary residence document which proves that your stay is regular.
Certificate of decision in favor of the application for a residence card
When the prefecture (or sub-prefecture) takes a favorable decision following your request, it will give you a certificate of favorable decision, via the online service.
This certificate is a temporary residence document which proves that your stay is regular.
The online deposit certificate is not a temporary residence document. It has no validity period.
Certificates of extension of the examination of the application for a residence card and of a decision in favor of the application for a residence card are valid for a maximum of 3 months.
They are renewed by the prefecture (or sub-prefecture) until a decision has been taken on the application for a residence card.
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Certificate of submission of application for a residence card
This attestation does not allow you to work.
Certificate of extension of the processing of the application for a residence card
1st application for a residence card
Temporary residence permit
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re request for one of the following cards:
- "Employee"
- Temporary worker"
- Private and family life" issued to the parent of a French child
- Job search and company creation
- "Private and family life" issued to the spouse of a French national
- "Private and family life" issued to foreigners born in France who justify having resided for at least 8 years continuously and followed, after the age of 10, a school of at least 5 years in a French school
- "Private and family life" issued in the context of family reunification
- "Private and family life" issued abroad that has been entrusted to the child welfare service at the latest on the day of his 16 years
- "Private and family life" issued to a foreigner who lodges a complaint against a person whom he accuses of having committed against him facts constituting the offenses of trafficking in human beings or procuring
- accident at work "Private and family life" issued to a foreigner in receipt of an occupational pension or disease
Multi-annual residence permit
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re request for one of the following cards:
- "Talent passport" or "Talent passport (family)"
- "Seasonal worker"
- "ICT seconded employee" or "family member of ICT seconded employee"
- "ICT Mobile Worker" or "Family Member of ICT Mobile Worker"
- "Beneficiary of stateless status" or "family member of a beneficiary of stateless status"
- "Beneficiary of subsidiary protection" or "family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection"
Resident Card
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re application for a resident card on the following grounds:
- Husband(s) of a Frenchman
- Ascendant dependent on a French person
- Child foreigner of a Frenchman
- Family reunification
- Refugee or refugee family member
- Family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection
- Beneficiary of stateless status
- Foreigner who files a complaint against a person whom he or she accuses of having committed acts constituting the offenses of trafficking in human beings or procuring
- Foreigner which fulfills the conditions for acquisition of French nationality
- Foreigner who served in a French army combat unit
- Foreigner who serves or has served in the Foreign Legion
- Foreigner accident at work in receipt of an occupational disease or occupational disease pension or those entitled under it
- Pensioner in receipt of a retirement pension from a French basic social security scheme
Renewal of residence permit
This attestation authorizes you to work.
Certificate of decision in favor of the application for a residence card
1st application for a residence card
Temporary residence permit
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re request for one of the following cards:
- "Employee"
- Temporary worker"
- Private and family life" issued to the parent of a French child
- Job search and company creation
- "Private and family life" issued to the spouse of a French national
- "Private and family life" issued to foreigners born in France who justify having resided for at least 8 years continuously and followed, after the age of 10, a school of at least 5 years in a French school
- "Private and family life" issued in the context of family reunification
- "Private and family life" issued abroad that has been entrusted to the child welfare service at the latest on the day of his 16 years
- "Private and family life" issued to a foreigner who lodges a complaint against a person whom he accuses of having committed against him facts constituting the offenses of trafficking in human beings or procuring
- accident at work "Private and family life" issued to a foreigner in receipt of an occupational pension or disease
Multi-annual residence permit
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re request for one of the following cards:
- "Talent passport" or "Talent passport (family)"
- "Seasonal worker"
- "ICT seconded employee" or "family member of ICT seconded employee"
- "ICT Mobile Worker" or "Family Member of ICT Mobile Worker"
- "Beneficiary of stateless status" or "family member of a beneficiary of stateless status"
- "Beneficiary of subsidiary protection" or "family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection"
Resident Card
This certificate allows you to work only if it has been issued following a 1re application for a resident card on the following grounds:
- Husband(s) of a Frenchman
- Ascendant dependent on a French person
- Child foreigner of a Frenchman
- Family reunification
- Refugee or refugee family member
- Family member of a beneficiary of subsidiary protection
- Beneficiary of stateless status
- Foreigner who files a complaint against a person whom he or she accuses of having committed acts constituting the offenses of trafficking in human beings or procuring
- Foreigner which fulfills the conditions for acquisition of French nationality
- Foreigner who served in a French army combat unit
- Foreigner who serves or has served in the Foreign Legion
- Foreigner accident at work in receipt of an occupational disease or occupational disease pension or those entitled under it
- Pensioner in receipt of a retirement pension from a French basic social security scheme
Renewal of residence permit
This attestation authorizes you to work.
- Code of entry and residence of foreigners and right of asylum: Articles R431-15-1 to R431-15-2Provisional documents issued during an online application
- List of documents authorizing return to the Schengen area