EU Blue Card (France)
🇫🇷 France visas · Work
What it is
For highly qualified non-EU professionals with a university degree and a high-salary job offer in France. After 18 months, you can move to another EU Blue Card country.
Key facts
- Category
- Work
- Duration
- Valid for up to 4 years.
- Processing time
- 8 weeks
- Maximum validity
- 4 years
- Dependants
- Conditional
- How to apply
- Mixed
Standard figures for this route. Some applicants pay a reduced fee or none at all, so confirm your own case on the official page.
Fees
- Application fee (frais de dossier du visa de long séjour, payés lors de la de)
- EUR 99
- Application fee (droit de timbre 50 € + taxe 300 €, réglés par timbres fiscau)
- EUR 350
Key requirements
- University degree of at least 3 years
- Employment contract for at least 1 year
- Annual salary of at least EUR 53,836 (1.5× the reference salary)
- Role requiring the degree held
Working on this visa
Full work authorisation with this card; employer exempt from work-authorisation request and foreign-employee tax
Facts checked against the official source. Last updated 3 August 2026.