r/ExpatsMovingToFrance

Hi,

Our family is from the EU and planning to move to France next year.

I assume that, if my company moves me from Spain to France, and get me a National Insurance Number and Tax ID, with those, plus my contract stating my salary, 3 previous payslips (even if from another country not France, they would be good and in €), I should be able to, find an apartment, open a bank account and settle, right?

My wife and daugther with me, she would be a student in a French learning school, and daugther would go to either ecolle matternele (she will be 5 next year), or private school if we cannot find a place in the public one.

I guess this is it right? or is there anything else for EU members that I am not aware?

I came across an official published response from the French National Assembly (Assemblée nationale) that seems to clarify a question that’s been debated for years.

The page is here:
https://questions.assemblee-nationale.fr/q17/17-11730QE.htm

from what I understand, the Ministry of the Interior says that someone with a “visitor” residence permit who:

From

• works only for a foreign employer,
• is not employed in France,
• is not participating in the French labor market, and
• continues working remotely for that foreign employer,

is not considered to be exercising a professional activity in France for the purposes of the visitor permit.

This seems different from the interpretation many people have repeated for years that any remote work while physically in France violates the visitor permit.

Am I understanding the government’s response correctly?

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