Prepare Your Visa Application

Steadily build your dream project 🇫🇷

  • 4 Pillars Process

    Steadily prepare for your visa application, with the easy-to-follow 4 pillars approach: 1) Foundations 2) Business Plan 3) Financial Planning and 4) Visa Application. Visualise your Progress.

  • Templates & Worksheets

    Get a personal finance sheet, business plan, financial templates, worksheets, and guides. Tick your checklist, as you confidently progress with your business visa application for France.

  • 1-to-1 Coaching

    Get Valerie's support for 4 months to turn your dream project into reality. Meet up every 2 weeks on Zoom and debrief on your progress. Get Valérie's input and collaborate on tougher subjects.

Prepare a strong business visa application

Preparing a business visa application for France is challenging, especially if you are working or looking after your family. Time flies, and your project seems to be stuck. And when you go online to do some research, it feels like you are going backward: Which information can you trust? What is expected in your dossier? And is your project idea good enough?

My French Business Visa is an online course and 1-to-1 coaching to help you steadily build your business visa application. After agreeing on a realistic timescale for our 1st call, you'll be guided on practical steps to take every week. We'll debrief every other week to keep moving forward.

My French Business Visa Course is designed specifically for business visa applications - Visa profession libérale, visa talent or carte de séjour entrepreneur. These are harder to get than a simple visitor visa and need to convince the French Embassy that your project is viable. 

With My French Business Visa course, you will go from feeling lost and frustrated to being confident about choosing the right visa, project and business setup.  No more going around in circles. You'll get a clear visa and business strategy and know what to expect once you land in France. 

By the end of this course, you will have submitted your business visa or carte de sejour application. Valerie will also be at hand to help you with follow-up questions from ANEF/Mnistère de l'Intérieur. 

Get support to make visible progress with your business visa application and get closer to your moving date to France.  

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Course curriculum

    1. Course 4 Pillars

    2. Best Practices + Tour

    3. 10 Misions to Prepare your Move

    4. 5 Common Mistakes in Business Visa

    5. Bonus: 4-Pillars Checklist

    6. Bonus: Planning + Contacts

    1. Different ways to find a business idea

    2. Workbook + 💯 business idea

    3. Business Vision Workshop

    1. 6 steps reality check

    2. Choosing the right visa

    3. Savings needed

    4. PDF list of regulated activities

    5. Business Visa Process

    1. BP Workbook + BP Template

    2. Business Overview

    3. Market Analysis

    4. Your Ideal Customer

    5. Your Product & Services

    6. Your Strategy

    7. Business Structure

    8. BONUS - Letter of intention template

    1. Overview : Start here!

    2. Summary of all legal structures

    3. Micro Entrepreneur

    4. Entreprise Individuelle

    5. EURL /& SARL

    6. SASU & SAS

    7. Bonus - Contact List

    1. Personal Budget Sheet

    2. Financial plan - Part 1

    3. Financial plan - Part 2

    4. Financial plan Example with template

    5. Financial Plan template

About this course

  • 4 x €232,00
  • 45 lessons
  • 12.5 hours of video content
  • 1 to 1 coaching content

Who is it for?

My French Business 1-to-1 if for you if:

  • You want to move to France in 4 to 12 months

  • Your want to freelance or start a business.

  • You want a visa profession liberale, visa talent or carte de sejour entrepreneur.

  • You want external support for feedback & progress.

  • You're ready to commit to your project.

My French Business Visa Course

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Pricing options

Self-Tuition or 1-to-1 Coaching.

About this instructor

Valerie Aston

Valerie is a business advisor specialising in small businesses in France. She worked as a business advisor to French entrepreneurs for 10 years, helping them work on their business and financial plans to secure bank loans and successfully launch their businesses. From 1-to-1 coaching to group training, she helped build hundreds of business plans. Since 2009, Valerie has been helping English speakers create and develop their businesses in France. Every year she registers over 100 micro-entrepreneurs and advises over 300 expatriates via Power Hours or her private forum.

FAQ

  • How long does the course last?

    You get a life access to My French Business Visa course and future updates. While the one-to-one coaching with Valerie is limited to 6 months - ideal for a business visa application. When joining, you'll receive an email series very week helping you go through the course in a digest way 🧭.

  • I'm not 100% sure about my business idea, can this work?

    Yes, the 1st pillar of the course called "Foundations" is designed to help you choose the best business ideas. I've designed some brainstorming exercises and added 100 ideas based on other expats running a business in France.

  • What's included in the 1-to-1 coaching

    It's easy to find checklists and rules online, but knowing how to apply them to your particular project or situation is difficult. The 1-to-1 coaching with Valerie allows you to build your business project with regular feedback on rules, market trends, strategy, legal structures and taxes. Valerie helped 100s of French entrepreneurs work on their business and financial plans and will share her insight on how to showcase your projects in the best light.

  • I'm moving to France in 6 to 12 months, can I join now?

    Absolutely 6 months is the ideal timescale to apply for a business visa or carte de séjour. Visa Profession Libérale for consultancy activities can be done sooner, but for visa talent and projects needing a validation from ANEF, we want to allow time for their answer (sometimes up to 2 months). If you've just bought a property with restoration work, it's also good to plan give yourself some time.

  • Which visas does the course cover?

    My French Business Visa covers visa profession libérale, visa talent, carte de séjour entrepreneur and switching from a long-stay visitor visa to profession liberale, provided you have renewed it at least once in France (expect 6-12 months for this one as it is a slow process).

  • Can I pay over several months?

    Yes. You can pay in 4 monthly instalments and get access to the full course and 1-to-1 coaching. There is also a 30-day refund policy if you join the course and realise that it's not a good fit.

  • Does it include my visa-application?

    The 4th Pillar of the course is your visa application. You've built the best dossier and you are ready to apply. Watch the how-to videos and fill in your online form in another window on your browser. If you feel uncomfortable doing it, we'll book a call and you'll share your screen with me. You keep your access codes private at all times.

  • It's my 1st business and business plan, can I make it?

    Absolutely. My French Business Visa has been designed for first-time entrepreneurs with no experience in financial planning, as well as experienced ones. We'll place the emphasis on showing your business potential and I will guide you on the financial planning for our calls.

  • Do you have a confidentiality agreement?

    Yes. Any information shared with Valerie remains confident. None of your documents will be shared with anyone and I recommend you keep control of your documents my sharing a specific folder or your drive with me. Once we are done, remove the access you granted me.

Benefits

Move forward with your business visa project.

  • Turn your idea into a business plan.

  • Ensure your project meets French rules.

  • Get a simple business plan and financial plan template.

  • Understand how French taxes work for your business.

  • Prepare for your visa/CDS application

  • Make informed decisions to move your project forward.