If you’ve been considering buying my courses on the Long Stay Visitor or Profession Libérale paths to living and building a life in France, I’ve created coupon codes that are good until December 31st, 2020. Simply click one of the … Continue reading
Author: Stephen Heiner
Flying During Lockdown
While many of my planned trips this year evaporated in the spring, there were still some trips I chose to take for business and personal reasons. During a brief window in the summer when PCR tests weren’t required, I went … Continue reading
Change Your Address, Change Your SIRET
I’ve written in the past about changing addresses here in France. In the United States whether you are dealing with the bank or the government, you simply assert that you have moved and give the new address. In France, you … Continue reading
Normalizing Your Tax Contributions in France
I’ve written about taxes numerous times over the years but I don’t think I’ve ever talked about what happens after you file them here in France. As 2020 winds to an end, it’s as good a time as any to … Continue reading
“Free Money” for French Classes via FIFPL
“Nine hundred euros?” I was stunned. The admin person for a French school in Paris had just called me back and told me that was the budget I had to spend on French classes. I had spent a couple of … Continue reading
How to Take a French A2 DELF Test
One of the misconceptions many have before moving to France is that living here will make us “fluent” in the language in a short time: 2-3 years at the very longest. Not only have I come to appreciate that fluency … Continue reading
How to Move to France, Part 3
The Nomadic Network has had me on in the past months to talk about the ins and out of moving to France, particularly from non-EU countries. Tomorrow will be the final webinar in a three-episode run. It’s free and you … Continue reading
The Covid Location Test
The arrival of autumn last week was underlined by rain and punctuated by cold: summer is officially over in the City of Light. It was, by all accounts, one of our quietest summers in recent history, as we were bereft … Continue reading
Traveling Without My French Resident Card
So in an earlier post I shared that I had been pickpocketed late last year and hence no longer had my physical four-year carte de séjour, which was perhaps the hardest-earned French document in my possession. In that same article … Continue reading
Getting Pickpocketed
So I’ve been pickpocketed three times in the seven years that I’ve been in Paris. Once in 2015 and twice in the last quarter of 2019, when pickpocketing was at an all-time high in the city. Nothing irreplaceable was taken; it … Continue reading