France issues Temprary Residence permits to non-EU foreign nationals who benefit from an employment contract of more than 3 months concluded following, in particular, the difficulties encountered by an employer in recruiting on French soil of employees already admitted to the labor market.

The temporary residence card (STC) "Temporary worker" is issued for any employment contract of between 3 months and 12 months.

The temporary residence car (STC) "employee" is issued for any employment contract whose duration is equal to or greater than 12 months. Its validity is one year renewable.

The law n ° 2016-274 of March 7th, 2016 relative to the right of the foreigners in France brings modifications, as of November 1st, 2016, the rights of the foreigners not nationals of the European Economic Area wishing to exercise an economic activity / commercial in France .

The new law thus creates a new residence permit bearing the mention "entrepreneur / liberal profession", which merges the two temporary residence cards "trader" and "liberal profession", and allows the exercise of a liberal profession, commercial, industrial, artisanal or agricultural.