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Annual Trip to the Préfecture

January 12, 2016 by Hugh Nelson Leave a Comment

Hugh standing in front of the Prefecture de Police, Paris

On Thursday, January 7th we went on our annual sojourn to the Préfecture de Police to renew our residence permits. Our original appointment was December 10th, the day before we were leaving for a Mexican cruise vacation. It seemed then to be a good thing that the nice lady at the Préfecture asked us if […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: carte de sejour, residence permit

We finally get our Cartes de Séjour (residence permits)

April 22, 2014 by Hugh Nelson 10 Comments

Since November we’ve been working to assemble the paperwork required to spend another year in France. The French name for the residence permit we need is carte de séjour. A week ago we had an the appointment at the Préfecture de Police to present our dossier and receive the permit. We documented in an earlier […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: carte de sejour, residence permit

A new apartment in Paris

April 4, 2014 by Hugh Nelson 19 Comments

We’ve moved just 3 blocks from our first apartment in a medieval building along the Seine to a new apartment in Paris built on Boulevard Saint-Germain during the Haussmannian era of the mid 1800s. From roughly 1850 to 1870 France was governed by Emperor Napoleon III, who as a main priority set about remodeling Paris […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: Haussmann, Internet service, moving, utility service

Notary Service at the US Embassy Paris

February 12, 2014 by Hugh Nelson 11 Comments

I recently had to use the Notary Service at the US Embassy Paris. My strategy to transfer funds from our US bank to our account in France has been to use a 3rd party company, Venstar Exchange, to provide a better exchange rate than we  could get through the bank. A US bank might charge […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: international funds transfer, notary service, US Embassy, venstar exchange

Getting a Carte de Séjour (Residence Permit)

January 13, 2014 by Hugh Nelson 27 Comments

Before I relate our process of obtaining a residence permit, a note of caution: Information we found on other Internet blogs was not always reliable and up to date. You will need to do your own research. The requirements change often. There have been major changes to the Préfecture de Police Web site even since […]

Filed Under: Living, Moving to Paris Tagged With: carte de sejour, mon ami andi, Prefecture de police, recepisse

Getting a French Visa

April 11, 2013 by Hugh Nelson 16 Comments

French visa

Most tourists coming to Paris from the US never have to worry about getting a French Visa, but since 2009, to remain in France for longer than 3 months, you must have the permission of the government. Though we arrived in France in late January, we started the procedure to obtain a Visa early in […]

Filed Under: Moving to Paris Tagged With: visa, visa requirements

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Hugh Nelson and Brenda Prowse on Pont Alexandre III
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