Building new perspectives together
We provide legal support in facilitating the entry and stay of your foreign employees in France and in contributing to the visibility and growth of your company.
To help you retain talent and secure your hiring practices, we provide comprehensive legal counsel on all matters related to professional immigration.
Secure your visas,
renew your permits,
liberate your mobility.
01
Anticipate the renewal of your residence permits.
02
Secure your recruitment processes and obtain guidance on the issuance of work permits.
03
Support your long-stay visa applications
and enable global mobility.
Margot Schoellkopf
Founder of the firm
Margot has been practicing law since being sworn as an attorney to the Paris Bar on February 7, 2018, and holds dual expertise in public law and immigration law.
She founded Schoellkopf Avocat in January 2023, following five years of experience in corporate law firms of Paris. She advises companies on recruiting international talent and managing their relocation and legal stay in France.
Capucine Allag
Junior Associate Lawyer
Capucine has been practicing law since being sworn in on December 15, 2025, and possesses expertise in family and employment-based immigration law.
After studying European law at the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, she obtained a Master II degree in the law of the mobility of persons from the University of Paris Nanterre.
Capucine has gained solid experience in immigration advisory services and litigation through several internships at law firms and at the Administrative Court of Paris.
She joined Schoellkopf Avocat in January 2026 as a junior associate. She works on matters concerning labor law and foreign nationals' residency status in France—including work permits and initial or renewed residence permits—and advises the firm's clients on obtaining long-stay visas.
She also handles cases involving naturalization by decree and by declaration.
What distinguishes us
Advise
Benefit from expert guidance, backed by robust litigation experience.
Secure
Ensure compliance in your international hiring and protect your employees.
Simplify
Streamline procedures, overcome administrative complexity, and refocus your HR department's efforts.
Enhance
Retain your employees, uphold your commitments, and adopt an ethical approach.
Key figures
61%
Of recruitments in France are considered difficult.
22 %
Of jobs are held by foreign nationals.
Professional immigration,
a strategic lever
75 %
Of complaints to the Defender of Rights relate to issues with the issuance of residence permits.
Our latest news
The system for managing applications related to the stay and work of foreigners in France requires foreigners to submit their applications for residence permits exclusively online, on the ANEF platform, for almost all categories of permits.
Six to twelve months to improve the management by ANEF of formalities related to the stay and work of foreign people residing in France
The document outlines a six-step process enabling employers to recruit foreign workers within a clear and secure framework.
The Ministry of the Interior publishes a guide to regulate and facilitate the recruitment of foreign talent.