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Old Dec 1, 2022 | 4:55 am
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Originally Posted by bmr12
A family member is going to be spending several months living and working in France. She will need the ability to do things like pay for a car, pay rent, etc., and I imagine that will require a bank account in Euros/in France. Any advice on how to go about that? She is a US Citizen who will be on a work visa.
She'll have to go to a bank with her resident permit, and find a bank that will accept a "US person" as a retail customer (not all of them do, because of the FACTA requirements.
If she's there for work, her employer may have a "preferred bank" for their secondees.

https://www.maupard.com/fatca-regulations-in-france/
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