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Professional Salaried Internship over 90 Days

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What type of worker, employment situation, occupation or professional activity is this pathway actually designed for?

The pathway is designed for an employee whose foreign employer asks them to follow a professional training course in a French training organisation declared to the French authorities or in a French company with which they hold commercial relations.

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Does the applicant need a job offer, employer, sponsor, transfer relationship or other employer involvement? What is important about that employer relationship?

The applicant must sign a training agreement with their employer, the training organisation or the host company. If the internship exceeds three months, the agreement must be sent to the French authorities by the French company or the training organisation, or failing this, the association which arranged the internship/training, and the validated agreement must be enclosed with the visa application.

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What are the few decisive professional characteristics of the pathway: occupation, qualifications, experience, salary, skill level, shortage status, labour-market condition or equivalent?

The checked official sources did not provide enough route-specific evidence to confirm the decisive professional requirements of this route.

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Limits of the record
  • The France-Visas 'Professional internships (paid employees)' section's professional material (employee sent by foreign employer to a declared training body or commercially-related company) is already cited in R1/R2; no qualification, experience or salary criterion is stated.

What work does the permission allow? Is the holder tied to an employer, occupation or sector? Can family accompany where clearly established?

Over three months the trainee receives a long-stay visa marked "stagiaire" for the professional training course; a "stagiaire" VLS-TS or card does not permit working and no work authorisation can be requested. The official source does not state whether family members may accompany the holder.

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Limits of the record
  • Work restriction from generic service-public page F2728.
  • Family position not stated.

How long is the permission normally granted for, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction exists if officially stated?

For a professional salaried internship over 90 days, the visa is a long-stay visa equivalent to a residence permit, bearing the statement "stagiaire" (trainee). The official source does not state how it is renewed or any longer-term residence direction.

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Limits of the record
  • The document does not state how the permission is renewed.
  • The document does not state any longer-term residence direction.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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