As part of working in France for longer than 3 months, you're required to get a temporary residency permit called a Titre de Séjour. This is supposed to happen with-in the 3 months after you enter France, as once the 3 months visa in the passport expires, you're not supposed to leave France until you get your Titre de Séjour. Unfortunately it took 3.5 months to get the appointment, and then a total of about 4.5 months to actually get it. So that was quite disappointing.
But regardless, we finally got our appointment for this morning. The immigration lawyers had everything setup for the most part, so it was just a matter of printing out the appointment letters, and showing up with our passports and 260€ of stamps for the processing fees.
Then you have a basic medical exam where you have your height, weight, and eye sight tested, then a chest x-ray to look for tuberculosis. Then some more waiting, then a brief interview about your health history, and then you get a medical approval form. All the doctors spoke English, but the receptionists did not, so having Kara was handy, but not required. Generally you just follow and do what everyone else is doing.
At that point, you take the form, take it down the hall to another office where they take your stamps and give you the official card. And voila, we are now temporary EU (and French) residents!
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