Moving to France to study?Know exactly what to do next.
Get a personalized step-by-step arrival plan for housing, visa, banking, insurance, CAF, healthcare and everything you need before and after arriving in France.
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Arrival readiness
Your next action
Get a housing guarantor
Estimated time: 10 minutes
Is your child moving to France?
Help them arrive prepared.
Everyone tells you it's simple. It isn't.
“I don't know what to do first”
Visa, housing, CVEC, bank, insurance. Everything feels urgent at the same time.
“Every website says something different”
Forums, group chats and outdated blog posts contradict each other constantly.
“I can't rent without a guarantor”
Landlords ask for a French guarantor earning three times the rent. Nobody explains the alternatives.
“I found out about CVEC too late”
Small steps with hard deadlines block your enrolment, your visa or your housing aid.
How it works
Three minutes now saves you three weeks later.
Tell us your situation
Twelve short questions about your nationality, city, school and where you are in the process.
Get your personalized plan
Only the steps that apply to you, ordered by what actually blocks what.
Follow your next action
One clear next step at a time, with the documents you need and the official source.
Not a generic checklist
The same 12 steps look completely different depending on who you are.
EU Erasmus student
- Student visa
- Visa validation
- Housing + guarantor
- European Health Insurance Card
- CVEC
- CAF housing aid
Non-EU master's student
- Student visa (VLS-TS)
- Visa validation within 3 months
- Housing + guarantor
- Sécurité sociale registration
- CVEC
- CAF housing aid
Everything covered in one plan
From your admission letter to your first month in France.
Built to be trusted
Built with students
Every step comes from the real questions international students ask each other.
Official sources on every step
Each task links to service-public.fr, ameli.fr, caf.fr or the relevant government page.
Free to use
Building and following your arrival plan costs nothing. We never replace official authorities.
Questions students ask us
Your arrival plan, step by step.
Build your plan in three minutes. It's free.
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