French Naturalization: What income and tax documents?

Verified 17 May 2024 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

The resource vouchers must be attached to your French application for naturalization, depending on your situation:

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You're a salaried employee

  • Work certificates (if possible, the last 3 years) or career record
  • Current employment contracts indicating salary, date of entry, job held
  • Last 3 salary slips
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • November and December salary slips for the last 3 years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You're a job seeker

  • Proof of registration for France Travail (formerly Pôle emploi)
  • Last 3 claim payment slips
  • All proof of your professional activity, if possible within the last 3 years, or a career statement
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You're a vocational trainee

  • Certificate from the training organization with dates of start and end of training
  • Last Earnings Bulletin
  • if necessary, any proof of your professional activity, if possible within the last 3 years, or a career statement
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You are a craftsman, a trader, a farmer, a manager

  • Extract of registration in the trade or craft register
  • Certificate of accounting showing income from your activity
  • Financial statement for the last 3 financial years or career statement
  • Tax status slip for the business of which you are either a shareholder or a manager
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You are a professional

  • Registration with the professional order
  • Past 3 years or career record
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You are a micro-entrepreneur (former self-entrepreneur)

  • Extract from registration in the trade register or in the trade register
  • Past 3 years or career record
  • Copy of Ursssaf returns for the last 12 months (monthly or quarterly)

You are a high school or college student

In any case
  • Certificate of enrollment or registration card in a higher education institution for the current year
  • Proof of higher education diplomas obtained in France
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)
If you're a scholarship holder

You must provide a certificate indicating the amount of the grant.

If you are being cared for by your parents
  • Double-sided copy of their residence permit
  • Duplex copy of their last tax or non-tax notice
  • If they are resident abroad, proof of payment
If you are a teaching contract

You must provide your contracts, if possible from the last 3 years.

You receive social benefits

  • Certificate of payment of benefits received (family allowances, housing allowance, active solidarity income, etc.)
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You're retired

  • Pension security
  • Last pension payment slip
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You receive a pension or allowance because of a disability or disability

  • Notification of the decision of the Commission on the Rights and Autonomy of Persons with Disabilities in force which mentions the rate of invalidity
  • If necessary, a certificate of employment in a protected work structure
  • Mobility Inclusion Card (MIC). The IJC replaced the disability card.
  • Slip for payment of an invalidity pension or allowance
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)

You are cared for by a relative (parents, spouse)

  • Proof of your caregiver's resources
  • Notice of Taxation or Non-Taxation for the Last 3 Years
  • Tax status slip template P. 237 covering the last 3 years (this document must be less than 3 months from the date of filing or sending your file)
  • In the case of your parents, a double-sided copy of their residence permit

Warning  

Depending on your situation, other documents may be requested.

To be accepted, documents attached to a French application for naturalization must comply with the following rules:

Civil status record

One civil status document must be supplied in full and in original in the language of the country of origin.

A French civil status certificate must have been issued less than 3 months ago.

A copy of a foreigner civil status document must be accompanied, if necessary, by a copy of the decision in execution of which it has been drawn up, rectified or amended.

Copy or original of a document

You can provide copies of the requested documents except for civil status records.

However, you should be able to present the originals of the documents if necessary.

A copy of a foreigner act shall be accompanied, if necessary, by a copy of the decision in implementation of which it has been drawn up, rectified or amended.

Translation

You must attach a translation of each document written in a foreign language.

You must provide the original translation.

The translation must be done by a translator on the list of experts approved by the courts of appeal.

However, translation is not required for a multilingual birth certificate extract one of whose languages is French.

In addition, to avoid having to translate some documents issued by a the European Union, one multilingual form can be attached. See the e-justice site for more information.

Legalization or Apostille

Certain documents established abroad must be legalized or apostilles to be accepted in France.

Inquire at the embassy or consulate of the country concerned.

FYI  

To make your French application for naturalization, one simulator allows you to have the custom list of documents to be provided :

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