Her brother earns €2,163 and her grandmother has €14,000: France still refuses her visa

The young woman had submitted an application for a “visitor” long-stay visa to the French consulate in Casablanca. She explained that she wanted to travel to France to assist her sister, mother and grandmother, who live in the country.

The consulate refused the visa on 8 May 2024. Following an appeal filed in June, the commission responsible for reviewing refusals upheld the decision on 30 January 2025. It considered that the applicant, who was unemployed, had not proved that she could finance all her expenses during a stay of more than three months.

The Moroccan woman did not dispute that she lacked personal resources. However, she was relying on her brother, who is a French national and an employee of RATP. He received a net monthly income before tax of €2,163 and offered to accommodate her.

But the accommodation certificate submitted covered only 90 days, from 10 April to 9 July 2024, whereas the application concerned a stay of more than three months. The brother also lived with three other people, aged 30, 18 and 15, in a 67-square-metre apartment with only two bedrooms.

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For the court, this accommodation could not provide a lasting home for an additional person. The judges also noted that the brother was already covering the expenses of the three other occupants. His salary was therefore insufficient, on its own, to guarantee support for his sister throughout the intended stay.

The €14,000 was not guaranteed to the applicant

The grandmother nevertheless received a monthly pension of approximately €1,200 and held a Livret A savings account credited with nearly €14,000. These sums did not convince the Nantes Administrative Court either.

The bank statements showed that the pension was already being used to cover the grandmother’s personal expenses. Above all, she had made no formal commitment indicating that she would finance her granddaughter’s stay. The existence of the savings therefore did not demonstrate that the money would actually be made available to the applicant.

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The “visitor” visa requires the foreign national to establish that they can live on their own resources during their stay, without engaging in professional activity in France. In this case, the judges did not simply add together the brother’s salary, the grandmother’s pension and her savings: they checked whether these resources could genuinely be made available to the Moroccan woman.

In its judgment issued on 10 August 2026, the court concluded that the appeals commission had committed no manifest error of assessment. The Moroccan woman’s two applications were dismissed, as was her request seeking to compel the Interior Ministry to issue the visa or to review her case again subject to a penalty payment.