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Residence for a foreigner making a long-term, non-speculative investment of at least EUR 10 million in commercial or industrial assets in France, as listed in comparison tables by the UK Migration Advisory Committee (Feb 2014; residence requirement 183 days a year) and the IMF (2015 working paper and Vanuatu Article IV; inception year 2013). Neither table names the card; the name comes from Transparency International's 2018 report, which cites Decree No 2009-1114 of 11 September 2009 on the carte de résident for an exceptional economic contribution and dates a French residence-by-investment scheme to 2009 (amended 2016), but its table row describes the EUR 300,000 passeport talent (fra-passeport-talent-investor), so that 2009 date is not recorded as a launch event. launched follows the IMF table (2013); the decree and the law behind the card are not stored, and the two dates disagree. The 5-year citizenship qualifying period in the MAC and IMF tables is France's ordinary naturalisation period and is kept as a context row without a programme. Closed: art. 20 of the law of 7 March 2016 (fra-an-ta683-2016) repealed the card, and the Interior Ministry's application circular states it is abolished from 1 November 2016 (fra-mi-circ-loi-2016-annexe, PDF p. 40); ended is the day before. The current CESEDA (consolidated to 27 August 2026) has no such card. Counts not found.

Multi-year residence card (up to 4 years) for a foreigner who invests at least EUR 300,000 in France, personally or through a company he runs or owns at least 30% of, creating or saving jobs within four years. Part of the passeport talent created by the law of 7 Mar 2016 (the Commission dates the French scheme to 2016). The Commission reported 29 permits in 2017; no later official breakdown was found.