Titre de séjour, CAF, social security, bank, guarantor — each one secretly depends on another. Miss the sequence and you wait weeks, or lose money you're owed. We map the right order for your exact situation.
The RIB unlocks almost everything after it. Start here, in your first week.
opens the whole chainFree for students — and a quiet prerequisite for the next step that most people don't expect.
needed before CAFA strict window after you arrive. Get this wrong and your legal right to stay in France is at risk.
time-criticalOnly works once steps 01–02 are done. This is where the real money is — and where most students leave it on the table.
depends on 01 + 02That's the general order. Yours shifts with your nationality, arrival date and housing — we sequence it for you.
Build my roadmap →Why it feels impossible
The information exists. It's just spread across a dozen government portals, in French, each one quietly assuming you've already finished the others.
Typical CAF housing aid a student is entitled to. Many under-claim it — or never apply — because an earlier admin step quietly blocked them first.
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Answer three questions — where you're from, when you arrived, your housing — and get your personalized order of operations, with a live titre de séjour deadline and a guide for every step.