{"id":3043,"date":"2024-04-04T21:43:23","date_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:43:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/?p=3043"},"modified":"2024-04-04T21:43:24","modified_gmt":"2024-04-05T04:43:24","slug":"former-u-s-politician-retired-to-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/2024\/04\/04\/former-u-s-politician-retired-to-france\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. politician retired to France"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Former politician from when I lived in Washington State, retired to France: <a href=\"https:\/\/rollcall.com\/2024\/03\/27\/living-abroad-jim-mcdermott-finds-his-liberal-utopia\/\">Living abroad, Jim McDermott finds his liberal utopia &#8211; Roll Call<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rawstory.com\/ex-lawmaker-escapes-trump-threats-at-safe-house-in-france-and-urges-others-to-follow\/\">he said he had purchased a &#8220;safe house&#8221; in France to escape from Trump.<\/a> He still owns a home in Washington State. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is no explanation as to how, now in his 80s, he received a residency visa to live in France although there is mention that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2024\/02\/27\/jim-mcdermott-expat-france-trump\/\">he ended up stuck in France<\/a> as he was there during Covid insanity. He likely obtained a 1 year residency visa: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.frenchentree.com\/living-in-france\/retiring\/retiring-to-france-visas-path-to-permanent-residency\/\">Retiring to France: Visas &amp; the Path to Permanent Residency &#8211; FrenchEntr\u00e9e (frenchentree.com)<\/a> However, that requires you have your own health insurance while the article above implies he has access to the French health system.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He is also previously an M.D., which combined with his former status as a Congressional Representative, might bias issuance of a visa. During his political career, he <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jim_McDermott\">had to pay about $1.6 million in fines and costs <\/a>associated with releasing an illegal tape recording of a private phone call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former U.S. Congressional Representative has moved to France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/travel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}