I had a new appointment at France Travail – this time to hopefully get some help with setting up my own business.
After I explained my situation to my adviser about how my titre de sejour didn’t allow me to set up my own company she explained there was another way.
Portage salarial.
As far as I understood it it is a bit like a business cooperative who I would join so I could work as a consultant but under their auspices. So they would pay my contributions and then issue me with payslips for the work I had done.
In this way, my current visa for an activite salariee would still be valid. Obviously they will take a percentage for this service.
I now have three numbers to ring to find out more about how it works and how much I will have to pay them.
On the visa front, there is potentially some good news. I have managed to send off a form asking for a change to my visa status to allow me to work for myself.
Obviously I had to include a huge dossier of information but so far I haven’t heard that it has been rejected/is missing key pieces of information.
So fingers crossed – one way or another my consultancy work in France might become a bit more legitimate in the coming months.
Thrown to (the) Lyon 