Practical guides for European expats navigating life abroad.
Make expat admin simple, actionable, and stress-free — so you can focus on actually living your new life. We cover the real administrative challenges that expats face in France and across Europe: from getting your first carte de séjour to filing your tax return, from opening a bank account to understanding your healthcare rights. The goal is not to replace official sources, but to make them readable: to show you which form to fill, in what order, with what documents, and what to expect when the answer comes back.
ExpatAdminHub started from a frustration most expats know well. When Julien Maurice moved back to France from the United Kingdom, he expected the paperwork to be familiar — he is French. Instead, every administration treated him as a brand-new arrival: tax history rebuilt from scratch, healthcare re-registered, bank accounts re-opened, residency formally re-declared. Every step had its own portal, its own form codes, its own deadlines, and its own preferred channel for replies.
The British nationals he had spent years working with in London were arriving in France post-Brexit with the same problems compounded by the language barrier and the carte de séjour. The cross-border workers he knew on the Swiss border had a different stack again: Permit G, LAMal vs CMU, the Geneva quasi-resident option, the 49.9% telework rule. None of these audiences were being served well by the search results that came back when they typed "comment faire" into Google.
ExpatAdminHub exists because the answer to "what do I do next" should be readable in fifteen minutes — not buried in a forum thread from 2017 or paywalled behind a generic immigration consultancy.
Julien Maurice is a French developer and entrepreneur. After moving back to France from the UK, he ran into the post-relocation administrative stack head-on — and quickly realised that the situation was much harder for British and other non-French expats arriving for the first time.
He spent the next eighteen months methodically rebuilding the relevant procedures into structured, code-first tools, and shipped AdminLanding as the platform-side answer: a SaaS that simplifies French admin for expats, landlords, and cross-border workers. ExpatAdminHub is the editorial companion to AdminLanding — free, practical guides based on real first-hand experience with French and European bureaucracy.
Every article references official sources (service-public.fr, legifrance.gouv.fr, impots.gouv.fr) because accuracy matters when your residency or tax status is on the line. Articles are written by Julien personally, then cross-checked against the relevant statutes and the most recent administrative circular before publication. When the law changes — and in France, it changes often — articles are updated and the change is logged.
Three rules govern every guide on this site. First, accuracy over reach: an article only ships when the procedure has been verified against the official text and, where possible, walked through with a real user. Second, plain language over legal jargon: the goal is to leave the reader confident enough to act, not impressed by the vocabulary. Third, dated and revisable: nothing is published without a "last reviewed" timestamp, and any guide more than twelve months old is flagged for re-verification before promotion.
We do not accept paid placements, sponsored guides, or referral-fee content from third parties, and the site has no advertising. Funding for the editorial work comes entirely from the AdminLanding software business — which is why ExpatAdminHub guides will sometimes link to AdminLanding tools, and never the other way around. The editorial side never gates content behind an account, a paywall, or a newsletter wall.
French administrative procedures are written in French. That is unavoidable. But most of the people who need them most — first-year expats, post-Brexit British nationals, secondary EU movers — read more comfortably in English. We publish every guide in both languages, with the same legal references in each, so the article is genuinely the same article and not a half-translated summary.
The French version exists for the people already comfortable in French who want a second opinion on an unfamiliar procedure (tax filing for a first-year arrival, for example). The English version exists for the people whose comprehension would be the bottleneck if they had to read service-public.fr cold. Both versions reference the same underlying statute, so a reader can switch languages mid-procedure without losing the legal anchor.
ExpatAdminHub is published by Julien Maurice, founder of AdminLanding (adminlanding.com), which also ships two mobile apps: Rent — Bail, Quittance, Loyer on Google Play — mobile rental management for French landlords with ALUR-compliant leases, rent receipts, digital états des lieux, and a dedicated tenant portal, pack pricing (€49 for the first property, €39 per additional property, 50 documents each; €7 per property to activate the tenant portal) with no subscription; and Guide: Démarches en France, an AI assistant available both as a Chrome extension and a Google Play Android app that annotates 25+ French government sites (Ameli, CAF, impots.gouv, France Travail, ANTS…) field by field, in English or French, with a conversational chat, inline form annotations, and structured procedure cards. The AdminLanding web platform adds 47 official administrative letter templates (MaPrimeRénov', éco-PTZ, CAF, impôts, préfecture…), a zero-knowledge encrypted document vault, and eIDAS-compliant e-signature.
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