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Formalities
For a non-professional
stay :
You can stay for three months
in the country with only a tourist permit. You get
that when you present your passport or identity
card (both must be valid).
It is forbidden to exercise a
professional activity, you can however do some job
prospecting during your stay.
For a professional
stay:
Different kinds of work
permits can be delivered (depending on the resident
status) :
- Permit A : a temporary work
permit, for a maximum 6 months' stay. Some
professions can get them for particular seasonal
jobs e.g. from 10th March -15th December for
building sites. This permit does not allow you to
come with your family.
- Permit B : a yearly work
and residence permit - easily renewable.Any changes
concerning the employer or the post must be
approved by the cantonal labour service. With this
permit you can obtain unemployment benefits and
bring your family to the country.
- Permit C : a permit to
settle in the country. It allows you free access to
the whole work market. After 5 years a Permit B
automatically changes into a Permit C.
- Permit G : a frontier
permit, which concerns workers residing for over 6
months in a frontier zone. It obliges the worker to
return every day to his domiciliation in France.
The period covered is renewable each year depending
on the validity of the work contract, the permit is
suspended after 6 month of unemployment.
- Permit L : a short term
permit covering a 4 to 18 month stay, the object of
which must be temporary.
- Special permits : concerning mainly students,
these permits are usually for training courses and
are not renewable. To get one you have to find an
employer who will apply for it for you. It is not
easy, the employer has to make his application to
the services of control of the inhabitants, and
then to a commission of union representatives. It
is possible that the cantonal labour office will
send Swiss citizen applications to the employer. In
order to get a special permit you have to have
qualifications that no Swiss possesses, which is
nearly impossible.
Formalities to be completed :
If you are employed by a
French or international company you don't have to
deal with any formalities, the administrative
services usually take charge of all the formalities
for expatriate staff. It is only if you are the
only representative of your company in the country
(eg commercial or in charge of a liaising office..)
that you would have to deal with any administrative
formalities yourself.
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