The webinar I did a couple of weeks ago had over 130 attendees and as such there were a number of questions I didn’t have time to answer. I’m going to tackle those and some new ones this week on … Continue reading
Author: Stephen Heiner
Free Webinar on Moving to France
Just a quick note that this week I will be hosting a webinar on moving to France and building a life and business here for the Nomadic Network. Feel free to join (there’s no cost) or share with friends or … Continue reading
Mailbag: the Non-Existent “American ban,” Work Possibilities with the PL Visa, & Snake Oil
In the last eight weeks I have received an avalanche of questions from those hoping to immigrate to France. In the past when I received a lot of questions I would collect them into a post like this and call … Continue reading
My First Flight Since Lockdown (and Ten Things I Learned)
“You are?” my European friends responded, bug-eyed, to my disclosure that I was flying to America this week. They had been watching CNN or some other similar network, in which the impression was being given that the country was burning … Continue reading
The Old Normal is Alive and Well in Paris
I’ve spent my entire life in countries with unrestricted freedom of movement. Not only did those countries let me go where I wanted, whenever I wanted, as long as I wasn’t breaking laws, the countries were indifferent to my location … Continue reading
Cracks in the Quarantine
Two weekends ago the weather was particularly lovely and while I was out for a Sunday stroll in my neighborhood what I had already been sensing over the previous weeks became crystal clear: many Parisians were not abiding by the … Continue reading
Coronavirus Financial Aid for Small Businesses Arrives
This is the time of year when I often have to remind non-EU nationals who live in France most of the year that they need to file taxes. With all that has been going on I was particularly glad that … Continue reading
Administrative Adventures in France
“To maintain order in your bureaucratic life, you more or less have to stay home; go away for any length of time and you’re always likely to run foul of some agency or another.” – Michel Houellebecq, Submission One of … Continue reading
Firing Société Générale
One of the earliest articles for this blog was about my experience getting my first French bank account at Société Générale. The process was relatively painless, but that was before FATCA came into force and made life more challenging for … Continue reading
Quarantined in the City of Light
While Paris started the year in the midst of a transportation strike that the strikers by and large lost in the end, there was only a brief respite for the hospitality industry as the specter of the global panic pandemic … Continue reading