They will no longer be required to obtain a residence permit (carte de séjour) from the French local authorities (préfecture) as long as their visa is valid. You can move to France for a year with this visa. As I’ve now been living in France since 2016, this guide includes how to get a long stay visa for France, what to expect at the OFII appointment to validate your long stay French visa once you arrive in France and how to renew your long stay French visa should you decide to stay for longer than one year like I … I work for a US company with no office in France but they have agreed to let me work remotely from France. Last possibility: stay in Scotland for 90 days after my visa expires? My husband is US citizen and I am Irish and we want to go to Europe for over the 90 days to spend our Winters with family, I thought we had to apply for a long term stay visa for him but judging from your article am I correct in saying that we can we spend 90 in Ireland a non schengen country and then a further 2 months in Greece or Portugal a schengen country and he will be there legally? This is the HOW TO video on how to apply for the France 1 year visitor visa! The only situations in which you can stay in the Schengen area without a valid visa is when you have a residence permit (or applied for one and got a temporary authorization for the time of your application). Thanks, Maddy Hopefully this helps! I have a US visitor visa (B1/B2 visa) in my passport that is valid for 10 years. Can I undertake 2 courses at the same time, if one course is by correspondence? Citizens of Canada, United States and Australia under the age of 30 are also eligible to working holidays visas in the United Kingdom (“Youth Mobility Scheme – Tier 5 Visa” is what I did when I moved the UK for 10 months), which can be a fantastic and inexpensive way to legally spend a year or two in Europe, granted that you have substantial savings to prove that you can subsist on your own money and not … Do you know if it is legal for me to work remotely from France for my US company on a long stay visa or is it something I can just get away with if I show I have the financial means to support my self while living in France? I would like to know if I leave and go to a non-schengen country for a few weeks, can I come back into a schengen country just as a tourist for another week or two. Can I stay in New Zealand after my studies? I’m a PhD student, can I stop studying to work full-time? But I am wondering if I could stay a little longer (around 2 weeks more) in France after the visa expires (for touring purposes).