Description
Thinking about moving from the USA to France? Start here.
Moving from the USA to France involves more than packing your bags and booking a flight. There are documents to organize, residence requirements to check, driving and healthcare to sort out, somewhere to live, money to arrange — and quite a few French administrative adventures along the way.
This practical 22-page guide is designed specifically for US citizens planning to move from the USA to France.
It helps you organize the big jobs, keep track of what you need to investigate and work through your move without turning the whole thing into one giant administrative headache.
Inside the guide
✔ Work out which route applies to your move
✔ Build your own moving timeline
✔ Organize documents and identity requirements
✔ Check visa and residence requirements
✔ Understand the French residence process
✔ Investigate driver’s license requirements
✔ Check what you need to do if you bring a vehicle from the USA
✔ Plan your move, budget and banking
✔ Research accommodation and local areas
✔ Consider work, business and remote-working issues
✔ Investigate healthcare and insurance
✔ Plan for family, children and pets
✔ Decide what to take — and what probably isn’t worth shipping
✔ Learn useful French survival phrases
✔ Prepare for important telephone calls
✔ Organize your moving day
✔ Work through your first week and first month
✔ Prepare for some of the little surprises of everyday French life
✔ Create your own personal move plan
✔ Keep important contacts and reference numbers together
✔ Complete a final moving checklist
A guide, not a crystal ball
French requirements can vary according to your nationality, residence situation, work situation and personal circumstances — and rules can change.
So this guide doesn’t pretend that one checklist can tell every person exactly what they need to do.
Instead, it helps you work out what you need to check, when you need to check it and what you need to keep track of.
You’ll also find reminders to check current official information where requirements depend on your individual circumstances.
And when the French gets in the way…
Moving to France can mean making telephone calls to landlords, utilities, healthcare providers, services, appointments and businesses — sometimes when your French vocabulary suddenly decides to take the day off.
Your guide includes a practical language survival section, plus a reminder of what to do when you need to make a call and simply don’t have the words.
Your purchase also includes 1 month of telmyfriends Expat Basic FREE, giving you 15 minutes of live telephone interpretation to help when language becomes the problem.
What’s included?
📖 22-page Moving to France Complete Moving Guide
📞 1 month of telmyfriends Expat Basic FREE
Includes 15 minutes of live telephone interpretation.
📝 Practical checklists, planning pages and notes sections
🇫🇷 French survival phrases for everyday situations
🔎 Useful prompts to help you find the information that applies to your own circumstances
You don’t have to organize everything in one afternoon.
Plan the next step. Check it off. Then tackle the next one.
Moving from the USA to France is a big thing. You’ve got this.
And when the conversation is the thing standing in your way…
telmyfriends — live language support by phone, right when you need it.
