What it costs
Published, becauseasking feels likea bad start.
You can do this yourself. Plenty of people have, and the paperwork itself is cheap. What you are buying here is that it is done right the first time, by people who know which préfecture wants what, while you get on with moving to another continent.
Essentials
£1,200
One applicant on a straightforward route. Remote income, savings or pension.
- Eligibility assessment and written route recommendation
- Document checklist built for your case, not a generic list
- Translation and legalisation coordinated for you
- File assembled and checked before it is lodged
- Préfecture submission support and récépissé follow-up
- Updates whenever anything moves, including when it hasn't
Complete
£1,950
People who want the landing handled as well as the paperwork.
- Everything in Essentials
- Lease sourcing support and review before you sign
- Bank account introduction
- Someone from us with you at the préfecture, interpreting
- First renewal prepared and diarised
Family & Business
from £2,800
More than one applicant, children, or a company to form.
- Everything in Complete, for the primary applicant
- Additional applicants handled in parallel
- School search and admissions support
- Company formation coordinated with a local accountant
Additional family member £450 (each, filed alongside yours)
Company formation coordination £900 (with a local accountant)
Property purchase support £1,500 (or 1% of price if higher)
When we ask
Three moments,each one earned.
Nobody pays the bulk before their file is actually with the authorities. That is the fear people bring to this, and it is a reasonable one.
01Assessment
£250
Before we start. Credited in full against the package if you go ahead
Pays for the call, the route recommendation and an honest answer. If we conclude the route is not viable, this is all you will have spent.
02Deposit
£475on Essentials
When the file is opened
Half the remaining fee, once we begin work in your name.
03On submission
£475on Essentials
The day your file is lodged and you hold a récépissé
The balance, payable against the one milestone you can check yourself: a dated receipt from the préfecture.
Not our money
Third-party costs, at cost.
£150–£400 for a typical single file. Paid to the people who provide them and passed to you at what they cost us, never marked up. If you later see the translator’s invoice, it will match what we told you.
- Sworn translations, per document
- Legalisation and apostilles
- Medical certificate
- The residence card fee itself (about £8 a year of validity)
- Passport photographs
If it goes wrong
If we assess your case and conclude the route is not viable, the package deposit is refunded in full. We keep the £250, because the work of reaching that answer was done.
If a complete file we prepared is refused, we prepare and lodge the re-submission at no further fee.
We do not charge for delay. Months of silence from a préfecture are normal, are not our doing, and are not a billable event.
Not sure which of these applies to you? The checker takes about two minutes and tells you the route before it tells you anything else.