thaisa47

Hi! My DH works for a French  company, and has worked for the US branch as an engineer for the past 10 years.  He has accepted a position within the French side of the company and is being moved to Paris.  We are in the throes of completing the paperwork, and are in Paris at the moment.  We have been coming back and forth since May for a couple months at a time and living in vacation rentals.  He keeps needing to head here for meeting, etc, so it keeps delaying the paperwork. We are going home next week for vacation, and then we are told we need to come back to Paris for physicals in February.  But since they have never moved an American here, we are all just kind of "winging it."  Who needs a physical?  Just my DH?  Do myself and my 18 month old DS need one, as well?   Can they be done in the states, instead?  I am not getting a work-visa, just my DH.  We are told that come March, they will keep us home so the paperwork can be completed (surrender passports, etc), and we will probably need to make a couple trips to the French embassy to finish paperwork, etc.  Is what I am describing sound "normal" or par for the course?  Any advice and help would be greatly appreciated!  We are confused as to what really needs to be done - most of the info we can find out there are for visas being initiated on the US side of things (not from a French company bringing someone over).  Thanks!