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) Brainstorm 2) Business Plan 3) Financial Planning and 4) Visa Application. Visualise your Progress.

  • Templates & Worksheets

    Get business plan and financial templates designed for visa purposes, worksheets, legal structures and tax video guides. Confidently progress with your business visa application.

  • 1-to-1 Coaching

    Get Valerie's support for 6 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 - Visa Profession Libérale or Visa Talent - 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 backwards: Which information can you trust, even more with AI? What is expected in your visa dossier? And where do you start?

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 long-stay visitor visa and you need to convince the French Embassy that your project is viable. Even if you have savings...

With My French Business Visa course, you'll go from feeling lost and frustrated to being confident about choosing the right visa, project and business setup.  You finally have a moving date to France, with a strategy to implement both for your visa and future business in France.

By the end of this course, you will have submitted your business visa or carte de sejour application and following through with Valerie's help. Almost time to pack your bags and time to think about your business registration.

Join the course now to be in France within 5 to 12 months! 

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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

    1. 6 steps reality check

    2. Choosing the right visa

    3. Savings needed

    4. Strategy for Couples

    5. PDF list of regulated activities

    1. BP Workbook + BP Template

    2. Business Overview

    3. Market Analysis

    4. Your Ideal Customer

    5. Your Product & Services

    6. Your Strategy

    7. 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

    1. Personal Budget Sheet

    2. Financial Plan template

    3. Financial plan - Part 1

    4. Financial plan - Part 2

    5. Financial plan Example with template

About this course

  • 5 x 239
  • 44 lessons
  • 11 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 5 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

  • What's included in the course?

    You get lifetime access to My French Business Visa course and future updates. Handy for the videos on French legal structures & taxes. The one-to-one coaching with Valerie lasts for 6 months.

  • I'm not 100% sure which business idea is best, can this work?

    Yes, the 1st pillar of the course "Foundations" helps you brainstorm and choose the best business ideas. Valerie has designed some exercises to guide. You can also check 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.

  • How long will it take?

    The ideal timescale for a business visa application is 5 to 6 months from your moving date. On average, it takes 1 to 2 months to build the project, and up to 2 months to get a validation. Then you have 2 months to prepare your move, including the meeting with TLS/French Embassy.

  • 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 5 monthly instalments and get access to the full course and 1-to-1 coaching. There is 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 Valerie. You keep your access codes private at all times.

  • It's my 1st business or 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. Valerie has worked with hundreds of 1st time freelancers over the years. She'll guide you both on the business strategy and financial side, to help you gain in confidence with your project.

  • 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 visa business plan and financial plan template.

  • Understand how French taxes work for your business.

  • Prepare for your visa/CDS application

  • Take action to prepare your move to France