For a highly qualified employee assigned to French Polynesia by an employer within the same corporate group.
French Polynesia
French Polynesia sits in Polynesia. Its immigration system runs 37 distinct routes — led by family, humanitarian protection and work, each set out in official law. All 37 cite an official government source, shown on the route with the date we last read it. Who actually qualifies depends on your full profile.
- Immigration routes
- 37across 16 route categories, each set out in official law
- Source-cited routes
- 37 of 37cite an official government source, with the date we last read it
- Largest category
- Family8 of the 37 routes — see them under Family below
- Region
- Polynesia
- Capital
- Papeetē
- Population
- 282,465
- Official language
- French
- Currency
- XPF
- Time zone
- 3 zones
Immigration routes
All 37 routes, grouped by purpose — 37 of 37 cite an official government source directly.
Work
3 routes
For a non-EU worker holding a employment contract supporting the salaried-employee status and the corresponding French Polynesia work authorisation.
For a non-EU worker holding a fixed or temporary employment contract supporting the temporary-worker status and the corresponding French Polynesia work authorisation.
Investment
1 route
For a qualifying business leader or investor whose project is accepted under the French Polynesia Talent Passport framework.
Business & self-employment
2 routes
For a non-EU entrepreneur, liberal professional or independent professional carrying on an activity that is not subject to a separate authorisation.
For a salaried legal representative or corporate officer of an establishment in French Polynesia.
Talent & merit
1 route
For research or teaching under an agreement with an approved research or higher-education body.
Study
2 routes
For a non-EU student enrolled or pre-enrolled in an educational establishment in French Polynesia with financial resources and medical cover.
For a non-EU trainee following a placement in French Polynesia under an agreement endorsed by the competent authority.
Family
8 routes
For a qualifying partner, child or parent joining a refugee, subsidiary-protection beneficiary or stateless person.
For a spouse or child admitted under an authorised French Polynesia family-reunification decision.
For the foreign parent of a French child residing in French Polynesia who effectively contributes to the child's maintenance and education.
For the foreign spouse of a French citizen, with a registered marriage and an effective shared life.
For a person whose stable personal, family, residence and integration ties in French Polynesia justify private-and-family-life residence.
For the spouse of a retiree-card holder who previously resided regularly with the retiree in French Polynesia.
For a beneficiary receiving a death pension from a French Polynesia social-protection body following a work accident or occupational disease.
For the foreign spouse of a foreign professional or student residence-card holder, using the independent-means visitor category.
Independent means
1 route
For a non-EU person able to live from sufficient own or guaranteed resources, with health cover and no professional activity in French Polynesia.
Residence-based status
3 routes
For an eligible ten-year resident-card holder requesting indefinite permanent residence, with the route becoming an entitlement from the second renewal.
For a holder of a contributory French Polynesia old-age pension who previously resided under a resident card and now lives principally abroad.
For a qualifying spouse of a French citizen, parent of a French child, dependent ascendant or child of a French citizen, or family-reunification beneficiary.
Free movement
2 routes
For an EU citizen residing in French Polynesia for more than three months with sufficient resources and health and maternity insurance.
For a non-EU family member accompanying or joining an EU citizen resident in French Polynesia.
Youth mobility
1 route
For a person aged eighteen to thirty living temporarily with an unrelated host family of another nationality to improve language and cultural knowledge in exchange for childcare and light household tasks.
Cultural, religious & volunteer
1 route
For a pre-arranged social or humanitarian volunteer mission with an approved public-benefit association or foundation in French Polynesia.
Short stay & visit
1 route
For tourism, family, private or professional visits of up to ninety days in a 180-day period, with a territorial visa unless an exemption applies.
Humanitarian protection
7 routes
For a person recognised as a refugee under the asylum provisions applicable in French Polynesia.
For a trafficking or procuring victim who has stopped prostitution and entered the recognised social and professional exit programme.
For a person protected by a civil protection order because of current or former partner violence or a threatened forced marriage.
For a person who reports being subjected to housing conditions incompatible with human dignity.
For a person formally granted stateless status under the provisions applicable in French Polynesia.
For a person granted subsidiary protection by the competent French protection authority.
For a trafficking or procuring victim who reports or testifies against the alleged offender and has broken all links with that person.
Ancestry & return
1 route
For a foreign national who meets the Civil Code conditions for acquisition of French nationality under article 21-7.
Medical treatment
2 routes
For a person habitually resident in French Polynesia whose condition requires treatment and who cannot effectively obtain appropriate treatment in the country of origin.
For a person receiving a French Polynesia work-accident or occupational-disease pension with permanent incapacity of at least twenty per cent.
Other & special
1 route
For a qualifying foreign veteran of a French combat unit, the French internal resistance, an allied army, or the French Foreign Legion.
Official sources
- Service-Public.fr foreignersGovernment
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