Expalys
Nice-based consultant helping clients with prefecture procedures and long-term visa extensions, with reviewers confirming excellent, clear English-language support.
Languages spoken at Expalys
What Expalys offers English speakers in Nice
Expalys is an immigration consultancy in Nice, and worth knowing by its other name too: reviewers refer to it as Expat SOS, so if you have been given that name by somebody locally, this is the same team. Anastasia, Camille and Nataša handle the work. The visa range in the record is wide and specific: long-stay VLS-TS applications, auto-entrepreneur renewals including the step up to a four-year multi-year card, the carte de résident longue durée, profession libérale, and artist and talent visas. One client got a long-duration card after years of applying alone.
The work does not stop at the visa, which is what makes it useful after you land. Clients describe getting a carte vitale, registering with Sécurité Sociale, exchanging a driving licence including a Slovak one, sorting a NIF, registering as an auto-entrepreneur, and being accompanied to Pôle emploi with Nataša interpreting. Certified translation is offered in-house. They also chase the Nice prefecture on stalled extensions, which one couple describes as nudging, and several clients arrived after a bad experience with a different consultant and draw the comparison unprompted. English is the working language across almost the entire review record, with Portuguese and French entries too. Fees are described as reasonable more than once.