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A pair of friends just moved to Paris to do just this. They had to travel to a French Embassy (Houston was closest) and prove they had a States-based job, and

A pair of friends just moved to Paris to do just this. They had to travel to a French Embassy (Houston was closest) and prove they had a States-based job, and that they were financially secure. They're allowed to stay for one year, and then have the opportunity to re-up for one more. I don't know of a master list, unfortunately.

toomuchtodo 10y ago
Did they have to show they had X amount of savings in the bank?
- mark-ruwt 10y ago
  Yeah, they had to show bank statements.
hartator 10y ago
I don't think you are allowed to work if it's a tourist visa. It might be not enforced, but teleworking is still working.
- kijin 10y ago
  There's a big difference between teleworking for a French company (i.e. taking a French job) and teleworking for an American company while staying in France.
dvcrn 10y ago
This sounds more like a working holiday arrangement to me
jtheory 10y ago
This is how my wife & I moved to France, in 2006; we each got a "Titre de sejour", a 1-year, renewable, long-stay visitor visa. It's not a regular tourist visa (and in fact if you're in France as a regular visitor/tourist you'll have to leave to apply for a titre de sejour). We needed to prove that we had housing arranged, means to support ourselves (savings plus income coming from outside of France... telework for companies in the US, in my case), and expat medical insurance. Then we could stay for a year. We renewed this for 5 years and then were automatically upgraded to residence permits (with the right to work in France, actually). -- Edit: somewhere along the way I was checking if some other European countries had similar options -- I remember it wasn't an option in most (it's not allowed in the UK. I think Germany wasn't okay either... forget where else I checked). Ireland had some options around retiring in Ireland that seemed like they might apply for teleworkers, but I haven't checked into it properly yet.

toomuchtodo 10y ago

Did they have to show they had X amount of savings in the bank?

mark-ruwt 10y ago
Yeah, they had to show bank statements.

hartator 10y ago

I don't think you are allowed to work if it's a tourist visa. It might be not enforced, but teleworking is still working.

kijin 10y ago
There's a big difference between teleworking for a French company (i.e. taking a French job) and teleworking for an American company while staying in France.

dvcrn 10y ago

This sounds more like a working holiday arrangement to me

jtheory 10y ago

This is how my wife & I moved to France, in 2006; we each got a "Titre de sejour", a 1-year, renewable, long-stay visitor visa. It's not a regular tourist visa (and in fact if you're in France as a regular visitor/tourist you'll have to leave to apply for a titre de sejour). We needed to prove that we had housing arranged, means to support ourselves (savings plus income coming from outside of France... telework for companies in the US, in my case), and expat medical insurance. Then we could stay for a year. We renewed this for 5 years and then were automatically upgraded to residence permits (with the right to work in France, actually). -- Edit: somewhere along the way I was checking if some other European countries had similar options -- I remember it wasn't an option in most (it's not allowed in the UK. I think Germany wasn't okay either... forget where else I checked). Ireland had some options around retiring in Ireland that seemed like they might apply for teleworkers, but I haven't checked into it properly yet.