Whether you're planning the move or already settled in France, we coordinate vetted cross-border experts in visas and residency, dual-country taxes, healthcare, housing, banking, and estate planning, so you can focus on what matters.
Dual-country tax experts who handle your US and French returns together, so both filings always line up.
Cross-border estate lawyers who structure your trusts, heirs and succession to hold up under both US and French law.
Modern, English-speaking health insurance built for newcomers settling in Europe.
Steps in as your French rental guarantor, so landlords welcome you without French income or a local cosigner.
France's largest bank, where we help members open their French account — a step most banks don't make easy for Americans.
Court-sworn translators whose certified civil documents sail through French consulates and prefectures.There are three ways to get help with a move to France. Here is where each one stops.
Reddit, Facebook groups and blogs are a great place to start. But every story comes from someone with a different visa, income and family situation. Eventually, you have to decide which advice applies to you, which one is accurate, and connect all the pieces yourself.
A good specialist is worth having, and finding one is its own project. Then each one sees only their part: immigration, taxes, healthcare, banking or estate planning. Someone still has to connect them into one plan and catch what slips between them.
Most relocation companies get you to France and stop there. The move ends, but the paperwork doesn't: residency renewals, taxes, healthcare and banking continue long after arrival, and the US side of the move (Medicare, state residency, your tax filing) was never theirs at all.
Most Americans don't struggle because they can't find help. They struggle because every provider owns a different piece, and no one owns the whole picture. So you become the courier between them — resending the same documents and keeping everyone on the same page.
Every specialist works from the same file. Your documents, deadlines and decisions stay in one place, so nothing gets lost between them and you never have to explain your situation twice.
One person knows your file from start to finish. Questions don't disappear into a queue, and you never wonder who owns the next step.
Immigration lawyers, CPAs, healthcare advisors and translators each do what they do best. We make sure they're working from the same plan, in the right order.
Tell your story once. Upload each document once. We keep everything together, so you're not forwarding emails or resending paperwork every time someone new joins the process.
Uploading a document isn't the hard part. The hard part is knowing whether it's still valid six months later, whether it matches everything else in your file, and whether it's still right for what's coming next. Every upload is checked immediately, then monitored as your move progresses, so problems are caught before they become delays.
The founders, Ali and Arnaud, met in college in Paris and have lived for years in both the US and France: they know Roth IRAs and 401(k)s as well as préfectures. The specialists around them are based in France, each with years of experience in their own field.
Previously at Google, Stripe and Interop Labs, where he led international expansion and operations. After relocating across countries himself, he built Aelos to make international relocation feel coordinated instead of fragmented.
Software engineer, entrepreneur and Y Combinator founder. Started his career at Apple before founding his own automotive software company. He now leads the technology that keeps every Aelos file connected.
France offers American retirees something unusual: healthcare that actually works, a culture that lingers at the table, and the rest of Europe right next door, all at a lower cost of living than most US metros.
The US–France tax treaty keeps many categories of US retirement income taxable only in the United States, including Social Security, 401(k)s, IRAs, pensions, many US investment gains, and rent from US property.
Once you've properly established non-residency, federal law (4 U.S.C. §114) generally prevents your former state from continuing to tax your retirement income.
France doesn't add its own income tax or CSG/CRDS to treaty-protected US retirement income. You still declare it in France each year — that annual filing is part of Aelos Membership.
One important exception exists for some investment-funded households: a French health contribution (the “taxe PUMa”) may still apply. The full page and the calculator explain when it does.
A set fee for the move and a flat yearly fee for the life after it, with the same specialists on every file.
Everything between deciding to move and settling in France. Your visa, banking, healthcare, housing, and every dependency between them — coordinated by one team, in the right order.
$5,000 per person · couple & EU-passport discounts · final half on arrival
The move, end to end →Once you've arrived, Membership keeps life in France running smoothly: renewals prepared before they're due, both countries' tax returns coordinated, and one team that already knows your file.
$3,500 per household · per year
Everything Membership covers →Have a different situation? Thirty minutes with an Aelos advisor settles it →
Thirty minutes, no pitch. About a third of these calls end in “not now,” “do it yourself,” or “France isn't right for you.” If it is right, you'll leave knowing exactly what to do next.
