I successfully received my French Talent Passport visa as a first-time founder in France in 2025. This is the companion I wish I'd had while going through it.

What's Inside

Phase One — Build the Business Project

• Is the Talent Passport right for you

• The "real and serious" project assessment

• Writing a business plan that holds up

• Letters of Intent for a company that didn't exist yet

• Your SAS and its statutes

• A company address before you have a company

• Securing €30,000 in project financing

Phase Two — Prepare the Visa Application

• The full document list, start to finish

• Business financing vs. personal financial resources

Phase Three — How the Dossier Came Together

• Why the documents only work as one story

• The cover letter and CV, reframed as founder evidence

• The order I wish someone had shown me

Phase Four — From Dossier to Paris

• Submitting, the appointment, the wait

• Incorporating the company and receiving your Titre de Séjour



Couldn't I Just Find This Myself?

Possibly. I did — eventually. But "eventually" cost me time: scattered calls, half-answers, not knowing which document unlocked the next one.

Every document is listed on the French government website.

What I couldn't find and what I needed was concrete examples of what the process is, how to present the 18 pieces of evidence, and the sequence — what comes first, and why.