A Path to Working Independently in France

If you want to live in France and earn income without taking a job with a French employer, you need a visa or residency status that authorizes independent professional activity.

The Entrepreneur / Profession Libérale pathway may allow you to:

• Continue an established consulting or freelance practice

• Apply your expertise in a new way

• Develop a creative, educational or professional service

• Turn a serious interest or passion into viable work

The online application requests unfamiliar information in separate places, without explaining how to bring it together into one coherent dossier.

More Than a Business Plan

The French process calls for several separate presentations of your activity, financial projections and supporting documents, but provides limited guidance on how these elements should fit together.

Simply supplying each requested item is not enough. Together, they must give the reviewing official a clear basis to conclude that:

• The proposed activity is clearly defined, credible and appropriate for this status

• Your experience and qualifications support the project

• The business model and financial projections are realistic

• The supporting evidence confirms that the project is genuine and viable

FranceNext develops these separate requirements as one coherent dossier - so the activity, the applicant, the evidence and the finances all reinforce the same professional project.

Built for the French Application Process

FranceNext develops and coordinates the professional, financial and supporting documentation required for your application.

Depending on your situation, this may include:

• Definition and presentation of your professional activity

• French business plan and financial projections

• Qualifications and professional evidence

• Evidence of demand and financial viability

• Organization of the complete French-language dossier

• Preparation and organization for submission

You receive a dossier developed specifically for French administrative review - not a template or repurposed American business plan.

Business Expertise. Firsthand French Experience.

You work directly with Peter Sapienza, an American and French citizen with an MBA from UCLA Anderson, studies in finance and strategy at HEC Paris, and decades of international business experience.

Peter combines business judgment with firsthand knowledge of France to transform your experience, expertise or passion into a clearly defined and financially credible professional project.

When legal, tax, accounting or other regulated advice is required, FranceNext coordinates with or refers you to an appropriately qualified professional.

Choose the Right Level of Support

Dossier Review

For applicants who already have a developed business plan, financial projections and supporting documentation.

Starting at €1,500

Complete Profession Libérale Dossier

For applicants who need their professional activity, financial plan and supporting dossier developed and coordinated from the ground up.

Starting at €6,900

Complete Dossier + Submission Support

For clients who want priority scheduling and continued personal guidance through final preparation, submission and administrative follow-up, including assistance with requests for additional information.

Starting at €9,500

Complex projects, specialist services and substantial changes in scope are quoted separately.