- Talent — qualified employee (salarié qualifié)
For people who earned a master's-level degree in France and have a contract of more than three months.
- EU Blue Card (talent — carte bleue européenne)
A contract of at least six months, plus a higher-education diploma of three years or more — or five years of comparable experience.
- Sent by your employer abroad (salarié détaché ICT)
Your group moves you to France for an assignment of more than a year, in a senior or expert role.
- Talent — employee of an innovative company
For a job at a company France officially recognises as innovative, in work tied to its research and development.
- Talent — employee on assignment (salarié en mission)
For an intra-group move to France where the French company issues your contract.
Quoted here, not scored
Two routes we hold the rules for and will not score. Each page states them as the authority does, with the day we read them, and asks you nothing; the checker never offers them.
- Employee card (salarié / travailleur temporaire)
The ordinary employee card: salarié on a permanent contract, travailleur temporaire on a fixed-term one.
- Talent — researcher (chercheur)
France's researcher card: a hosting agreement with an approved research or higher-education body, a master's-level degree, and research or university teaching as the purpose of the stay.