Q & AMoving/Living/WorkingOverstaying your French Visa

Question: I'm an American working in Paris through the AIPT program. However they can only give you a work visa for 18 months. Mine will be finished at the end of Aug. I have been offered a better job in the same company and have already started working. I would like to know how I could get a new work visa. Also I am planning to get married to a French citizen within a year, so I don't know if this has any effect on anything. Thanks in advance for any suggestions you can give me or other people that I could contact.

Answer: This is what I think, but remember I could be wrong - seems to me it's up to your employer. They will either do the paperwork for you or let you go. They legally can't keep you on unless you have some type of work visa.
Once you are married you will have in theory (one never ever knows for sure with French bureaucracies) no problem getting a work visa, but until then you could be forced to leave your job. The only other thing I can suggest is you ask your local prefecture. Good luck and let me know how it goes.