Global-mobility platform Xpath.Global has released a 30-page employer guide to France’s Talent Passport, reflecting the latest salary-threshold methodology introduced by the 2025 decree and the January 2026 immigration-law amendments. Key takeaways: the salary floor for the EU Blue Card track is now indexed to 110 percent of median gross earnings (up from 1.5 times the average salary), and spouses entering under the “family accompanying” route receive immediate labour-market access with no labour-market test. The guide also demystifies the OFII integration sequence and warns that prefectures now require proof of private-health cover from day one—even if the employee will join the French social-security regime later. For companies, the most welcome clarification concerns remote-first contracts: provided at least 25 percent of duties are performed on French soil, the assignee remains eligible for the impatriate tax regime, regardless of EU business-travel days. That should ease compliance for regional roles that split time between Paris and other EU capitals. HR teams are urged to update offer-letter templates before the next salary-review cycle to ensure they meet the new monetary thresholds and benefit disclosures.
Source: Xpath.Global Blog
