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Visitor Temporary Residence Card

French PolynesiaLiving from your own income

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Is this aimed at retirees, pensioners, financially independent people, passive-income holders or another profile?

This is the Visitor temporary residence-card route for a non-EU national staying in French Polynesia for another reason who can show sufficient resources and medical insurance for the whole stay.

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Which types of income/assets are accepted according to the official source?

Accepted evidence of resources includes bank statements, guarantees from solvent persons, pension documents for retirees and tax notices. If a third party supports the applicant, the file must show the guarantor's sufficient resources (tax notice, payslips, etc.) plus a financial-support undertaking and the guarantor's identity card.

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What income, savings or financial-resources threshold applies and how does family affect it where officially specified?

The checklist requires resources sufficient for the applicant and, where relevant, family members, but gives no amount or calculation. The territorial CESEDA compilation records removal of the usual annual-net-minimum-wage wording from Article L426-20 for French Polynesia. That compilation is expressly informational, so the current local calculation and any remaining threshold must still be confirmed from authoritative enacted text.

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  • No numeric resource amount or complete calculation method appears in the captured route checklist. The territorial amendment is in an informational consolidation; confirm the authoritative current text before stating that no statutory minimum applies.

Can the holder work locally, run a business or perform other economic activity? What is the family position?

The Visitor card does not authorise professional activity in French Polynesia. The High Commission says foreign spouses of foreign nationals holding a professional or study residence card have access to the Visitor card. The official guidance does not establish automatic issuance, rights for every family member or permission for a spouse to work.

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  • The guidance does not explain whether spouse access is automatic, identify the complete family-member scope or establish any work rights for a spouse.

How long is the status granted, what is required for renewal, what physical-presence obligations matter, and what longer-term residence direction exists?

A temporary card is valid for up to one year, and the High Commission says the Visitor card is renewable. Its general instructions say to request the initial title within two months after arrival (or before the long-stay visa expires) and to apply for renewal in the two months before expiry. The guidance says the listed titles do not lead to a resident card. It does not give Visitor-specific renewal conditions or physical-presence rules.

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  • Renewability is confirmed, but the route-specific renewal evidence, approval conditions and any physical-presence obligation were not established. The legal duration is also stated in a compilation that warns it is informational only.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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