Brexit chaos: France twists knife with new tech visa, as UK talks up tighter borders | ZDNet
14 March 2019 6:01 AM GMT
France says while the UK is making tech talent feel less welcome, it is opening its doors.
- It has launched a new visa that allows startups to easily hire employees from anywhere in the world.
- La French Tech  as one of the most open startup employee visas in Europe.
- "With Brexit making foreign tech talent feel less welcome, we want to be ready to help thousands in the tech industry choose France," says Kat Borlongan, the director of La French Tech.
- A startup scaling rapidly like this is the type of company that can benefit from this new French Tech Visa for Employees.
- At Station F in Paris, the world's biggest startup campus, around one-third of the community is from outside France, and this new visa will enable startups to hire more talent from beyond the EU.
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