Get to France without a refused visa, a missed deadline, or a letter from the IRS.
52 tools that run your move in the order it actually happens. Every figure pulled from an official French or US source, dated, and rechecked every week. One payment, yours for life.
Getting it wrong costs more than getting it right
None of these are edge cases. They are the four that catch Americans every single year, and every figure below comes from the agency that enforces it.
Your French accounts cross $10,000 for one afternoon and FinCEN Form 114 is due. A non-willful penalty alone can reach $16,536 for that single year. Nobody sends you a reminder.
The long-stay fee is not refunded on refusal. Add the service fee, the flights, the apostilles, the sworn translations, and the months you waited for the slot. Then start again.
You land on a VLS-TS and the clock starts. Validate it online inside three months or you fall out of legal status, in a country where being in status is the condition for everything else.
Your French cover starts on a provisional number with an expiry date. Miss the birth-certificate step that makes it permanent and reimbursements stall, then the rights close entirely.
One system, 52 tools, seven phases, your order
1. Decide and qualify
Test whether the move is realistic before you commit: which visa fits your life, what it costs, and how France compares to where you live now.
2. Plan and budget
Put real numbers on it: your full budget, your income after French and US tax, and what to do with the home you own in the States.
3. Apply for the visa
File a dossier so complete you walk into the appointment certain: the exact documents, apostille and sworn translation, and the consulate that owns your case.
4. Prepare to leave
The logistics: what to ship and what it costs, and the customs relief you qualify for when you move your life across the Atlantic.
5. Land and activate
Your first weeks in the right order: validate the visa, open a bank account, get into the health system, sort your license, secure housing.
6. Settle in
Living it: French and US taxes side by side, the benefits you are owed, the health surcharge that surprises people, and your language level.
7. Stay and put down roots
The long game: the 10-year card, French citizenship, retirement across both systems, and the cost of buying a home, handled calmly for years.
And it rebuilds itself around your situation
The Visitor route, the exact income proof for your case, and a plan with no work permit to chase.
The Campus France path first, the student fees and timeline, and every step lined up in the right sequence.
The work-authorization route, what your employer files, and how it converts to a residence card on time.
The Passeport Talent route, whether your profile qualifies, and the faster, longer-validity track it can open.
The Vie privée et familiale route, the fee relief you may qualify for, and a shorter road to French citizenship.
The Entrepreneur route, the business plan the consulate expects, and when the Talent card opens instead.
The first month, in the only order that actually works
You land and everything wants to happen at once. The bank wants your address. The address wants your SIM. The health system wants an apostilled birth certificate you should have ordered in the States. And your OFII clock is already running.
Tick a task and watch the next one unlock. That dependency graph is the whole product, and it is why people who use it do not lose three weeks standing in the wrong queue.
Do not take our word for it. Break it yourself.
What you get, and what the same work costs anywhere else
And four things that are not modules at all
Every date that applies to your route lands in your own calendar, with a reminder before each one. The OFII window, the tax dates, the renewal, the residency clock.
Your spouse and each child get their own plan on the same account. Different visa, different documents, different dates, one login.
Every figure is re-verified against its official source once a week, for as long as you own it. The décret that changes in August updates itself.
You are buying the 52 that exist today and everything that ships after. No upgrade, no second payment, no expiry.
Two tax calendars, finally on one screen
The IRS never lets go, and France runs its own deadlines by department. Pick your zone and the four dates that are actually yours line up, each one dated and sourced.
Then enter what your French accounts peaked at. Cross $10,000 at any single moment in the year and the FBAR clock starts, whether anybody told you or not.
Type a number in. See what it says about you.
From people who already landed
honestly i had no clue where to even start, just weeks of forums and conflicting answers. this mapped my whole move as one ordered list, every task in the order i actually needed it. the visa got sorted early and then i just followed the plan. first time the whole thing felt manageable
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 landed in Lyon overwhelmed with no idea what to do first. Having every task laid out in order, bank before this, prefecture before that, finally made the whole French system make sense to us. Nothing slipped through the cracks.
I came in worried about the admin and the tax side and how little I understood any of it. Seeing the full roadmap with each step explained in plain English is what made France click for me. I stopped feeling like I was forgetting something important.
I am playing the long game toward citizenship, so I wanted the entire path mapped from day one. Everything sits in order and gets tracked as I go, so I always know where I am and what is left. Nothing gets lost.
what i needed was one place telling me what to do and in what order, instead of 40 browser tabs. every task is laid out and checked off as you go, with the official links right there. it organized the whole move and honestly paid for itself the first week
All 52, listed, so you can check we are not bluffing
Walk into the citizenship interview already knowing the answers
Years from now, naturalization comes down to a timed civic exam: 40 questions, 45 minutes, 80 percent to pass. Nobody mentions it while you are busy with the visa.
Take five real questions from the bank of 120 right now. The clock starts the moment you answer the first one, exactly like the real thing.
Five questions. The clock is real. See where you land.
Who this is for, and who it is not for
Buy it if
- You are actually moving, not browsing, and you want to run it yourself
- You want to know your visa route before you spend a dollar on it
- You are a US citizen or green card holder, so the IRS follows you across the Atlantic
- You are moving with a spouse or children and each of them needs their own plan
- You would rather read the official text than a forum thread from 2019
Skip it if
- You want somebody else to fill in the forms while you wait
- You are visiting for under 90 days, in which case you need almost none of this
- You want advice you can hold somebody liable for. We cite the official source and send you to it, on purpose.
- You want it for free. It is not free.
Every figure is official, and it stays official
Sourced, never typed in by hand
Every figure connects to a government source: service-public, impots.gouv.fr, ameli, the IRS, FinCEN, and the official journals. Each module lists the exact references behind its numbers, and links you straight to them.
Rechecked every week, automatically
Automatic checks run against every source once a week, so the figures stay current without anyone having to remember. Each module still shows the date it was last verified, so you know how fresh the number in front of you is.
Honest about its limits
We move people to France for a living, and we built these so you can run it yourself. They are educational tools. They point you to the official page to confirm before you rely on anything, and they never replace legal or tax advice.
An agency does it for you. This puts you in charge.
A relocation agency
- Everything handled for you, start to finish
- Usually several thousand dollars, sometimes billed per service
- On their timeline and their availability
- Support ends when the engagement ends
- One person, one household, one contract
France Navigator
- All 52 modules, from the first visa question to the French passport
- Every figure tied to its official source, dated, rechecked weekly
- Open whenever you are, at your pace, on your schedule
- Yours for life, every future module included
- A separate plan for your spouse and each child
One payment. Everything opens.
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France Navigator
- All 52 modules, across all seven phases
- Your own plan, with deadlines and calendar reminders
- A separate plan for your spouse and each child
- Weekly recheck against every official source
- Yours for life, every future module included
The questions people ask before they buy
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