Permit for victims of trafficking or pimping (traite des êtres humains)

If you are or have been a victim or a witness of human trafficking or pimping, you can get a private and family life residence permit (carte de séjour temporaire vie privée et familiale) under certain conditions. It is issued exceptionally: you must cooperate with the police (or gendarmerie) and with justice. You file your application online on the ANEF online portal, and you immediately receive a dematerialised filing attestation.

Steps

1. Before your application to be admitted to stay, the investigating police officers or gendarmes must interview you.
2. They offer you a 30-day reflection period to decide whether to cooperate with justice and get a residence permit (titre de séjour). If you ask for this period, you get a 30-day récépissé receipt that allows you to work, and you must provide an identity photo.
3. If you do not ask for the reflection period, you can decide to cooperate with justice immediately.
4. You file your permit application online on the ANEF online portal.
5. At the online filing, you immediately receive a dematerialised filing attestation.
6. The préfecture (or sub-préfecture) of your place of residence gives you the card.

Documents to bring

Key facts

• The card you are given is free of charge.
• The card is valid 1 year.
• The temporary card allows you to work.
• During the reflection period, you cannot be removed from France.
• At the end of the criminal procedure, if the perpetrators are convicted, you can be given a 10-year resident card (carte de résident).