Every arrival formality in France,in the right order.
Answer 12 questions. You get the exact list of what you must do — visa, guarantor, housing, bank, CVEC, CAF — with the official source for each step.
Free · Personalized · About 3 minutes · Official sources
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Forums, group chats and outdated blog posts contradict each other constantly.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.
Your journey, in five stations
From your living room to settled in France. The same map follows you inside the app.
- 1
Your situation
Twelve quick questions. No account needed.
You start here - 2
Your personalized plan
Only the formalities that concern you, in the order that matters.
- 3
Before you leave
Visa, guarantor, housing, document file.
- 4
First week
Bank account, home insurance, transport card.
Settled in France
CVEC, health cover, housing benefit — all done.
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.
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Building and following your arrival plan costs nothing. We never replace official authorities.
Questions students ask us
Your arrival plan, step by step.
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