You keep thinking about France. Let's find out what it would actually take.
It starts with the two questions you're really asking: could I even qualify, and could I afford it. You can answer both tonight. Then, if it's a yes, 50 tools walk you through everything after that, one step at a time, all the way to a French passport.

It's late, and you've got eleven tabs open.
One is a government page in French you've been half-translating for twenty minutes. One is a Reddit thread from 2019. One is a Facebook group where somebody's cousin is confidently wrong about tax treaties.
You opened the laptop to answer one question: whether this is even possible for someone like you.
You're closing it with more questions than you started with.

So let's put it in order.
- See which visas you'd actually qualify for
- Price the move against what you really earn
- Validate your VLS-TS
- Open a bank account
- Register with CPAM
- +and every step in between, right up to the passport
All of that stands between you and this.And here's the thing itself

Now watch somebody actually use it
Before you commit to anything
- Which visas you'd genuinely qualify for. Not which ones exist. Which ones are yours.
- What the move would cost against the income you actually have.
- Whether the tax side is a real problem for you, or something you've been dreading for nothing.
- Which two or three regions fit the life you already live.
Some of what comes back will be good news. Some of it won't be. You might find out you can go next spring, or that you need another year, or that the route you had in mind was never going to work and a different one will.
Whichever it is, you'll stop guessing.
Why we built it
People come to us having been careful about all of it, and we still see the same handful of things over and over.
Somebody applies for a visitor visa because it looked like the simple one, then finds out it forbids them from working, and that they'd have qualified for a Talent permit the whole time.
Somebody else gets refused on proof of funds they could easily have shown, and loses the fee, the flights, and four months waiting for another appointment.
Or somebody sells the house back home a few months after landing instead of a few months before, and discovers France has a view on the gain.
None of that is carelessness. It's that nobody ever put the whole thing in front of them in order, with the dates attached.
So we started writing down everything we keep repeating. It took a while. This is it.
Maxime RoseauCo-founderMaster of Business and Communication, Université Nice Sophia AntipolisMaxime handles the residency path end to end: which visa you'd actually qualify for, the consulate file, OFII validation, prefecture appointments, renewals and changes of status, right through to the naturalization dossier. Alongside that, the practical stuff that decides whether a landing goes smoothly or badly: rental dossiers, guarantors, utilities, proof of address.
Read his profile
Aurelio MauriciCo-founder, based in Aix-en-ProvenceMaster of Business Law, Aix-Marseille Université IIIAurelio handles the money and the paperwork: French bank accounts and the walls American and British applicants keep running into, tax residency and cross-border reporting, CPAM onboarding, ANTS filings. He runs real client files through these systems every week, so the tools reflect what institutions actually ask for, not just what the official text says they will.
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Shane ClarkCo-founder & President, EuroAmerican Financial AdvisorsEFP, US Series 65 Investment Adviser, Sevilla, SpainShane advises Americans living in 16 EU countries, France included, on investing under US rules from outside the United States. He reads every France Navigator tool that falls inside his field.
Read his profile and how we review- Investing as an American in France, and PFIC exposure
- US brokerage and retirement accounts after the move
- Portfolio construction and currency risk
- Cross-border wealth planning where US rules apply
There's nothing else like this
What this costs if you hire it out instead
From people who used it to decide, and then to move
i bought this before i had decided anything, just to find out if france was even realistic for me. ran my own numbers through the tax and cost tools in one evening and finally got a straight answer instead of a forum argument. by the time i said yes i already knew what it would cost and what came first
What sold me is that it hands you the entire move as a sequence. I always knew my next three tasks, what depended on what, and what was coming months out. I did not miss a single deadline because nothing was left to memory.
We had lived in France before Brexit so we assumed it would be simple. It is not, we needed a visa like anyone else, and the app was blunt about that on day one. Then it walked us through the ISA and the HMRC side that nobody warns you about. Nothing slipped through the cracks.
Two passports, two sets of problems
- The French banks that turn you away because of FATCA
- What an ordinary French fund does to your US return
- Filing with the IRS forever, plus FBAR
- Whether the state you left still counts you as resident
- Since Brexit you need a visa like everyone else
- Your ISA stops being tax free once France counts you as resident
- HMRC, the residence test and split-year treatment
- SIPPs, the State Pension, and whether you get an S1
All 50, if you want to see them
Your Tuesday market
Your door
Your pâtisserie
Your corner café
Your morningYou're not buying 50 modules
You're buying a straight answer, and then the morning you stop counting the days.
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- All 50 tools, from the first question to the passport
- The American and the British version of every home-country tool
- Your own plan, with deadlines and a nudge before each one
- A separate plan for your partner and each child
- Rechecked every week, and reviewed by an expert in each field
- Yours for life, including everything we add later
Before you buy
Is there really nothing else like this?+
I haven't decided yet. Is it too early to buy this?+
I'm British, not American. Is this really built for me?+
Can't I just find all of this for free online?+
Will it fit my situation?+
How current is the information?+
Who wrote it, and who checks it?+
Why not just hire a relocation agency?+
Is this a subscription?+
What if it isn't for me?+
Is this legal or tax advice?+
How long do I keep access, and does it save my progress?+
So. Could you actually do this?
Open it tonight. By the end of the evening you'll know, one way or the other. And if it's a yes, everything you need next is already in there, waiting, in order.
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