My name's thomas and I'm a 23 y.o frenchman. My girlfriend, Qing, is Chinese and we met there. She's just finished her studies abroad in england and I was there as well, and her visa is about to end. We've been together for some time and we want to stay together. What is the best way for me to have her come to france and live there with me, visa-wise or work permit-wise? She doesn't speak French fluently. She hasn't had a job offer yet. She doesn't have much money and her father can't support her much (he just finished paying for her studies). I need her. I love her. She can't go back to China, she loves it in the west! China's hard to live in and get out of, she'll never have a life she'll want to have there. I can provide a free roof and food for her, but how do I get her to be... legal there? Please, help me find a way to let her stay. I beg you, please, please help me.

As they say, "Love is blind". No job, doesn't speak the native language and no money... "get her to be... legal there". Speak to the French Embassy where you are located. It is becoming much more difficult to try and enter another country anymore, particularly under the circumstances you posed.

Have you considered marrying her?

You better find a lot of money because the immigration floodgates aren't open to everyone... now more than ever. It isn't easy and it isn't cheap... and if you (not someone else) aren't gainfully employed and able to prove you can financially support them, odds are VERY much stacked against you.

And marriage doesn't eliminate that at all under current laws as THAT has been seriously abused in the past and changed as a result.

I'm in the US, where students overstay their visas all the time. (At least til now, perhaps - not sure where the Trump admin stands on this.) What I am curious about is why you both have waited til AFTER the LAST MINUTE to look into this. She must be smart enough, you both must be, to have talked to all sorts of people local to the school, local to you - other Chinese students, professors, and so on. She can get a menial job while she works on this, and you both can find out what current requirements are for a more permanent visa. It doesn't even sound like you even read the French immigration web page!!??

You both show remarkable helplessness. Love and strangers online won't get what you want.

Time to actually get to work. This is something you need to do, not us. It can be done.