You got it from the social welfare agency from your country of origin one EHIC.

By presenting your EHIC in France, you will be taken care of under the same conditions as the insured of the French scheme.

Your card must be valid at least until the end of the current academic year.

To benefit from the coverage of your health costs during your studies, you must register with French Health Insurance on the website student-foreigner.ameli.fr.

Registration of a foreigner student to Social Security

You must attach to this request:

• The form S1
• A certificate of enrollment for the current academic year
• A proof of marital status
• A Bank Identity Statement (BIT)

In order to benefit from the coverage of your health costs during your studies, you must register with Social Security on the website student-foreigner.ameli.fr.

Registration of a foreigner student to Social Security

You must attach to this request:

• A certificate of enrollment for the current academic year
• An attestation of resources
• Proof of identity
• A proof of marital status
• A Bank Identity Statement (BIT)

You need to have sufficient resources to support yourself and your accompanying family members.

You own the U2 form allowing your unemployment benefit from the last State of affiliation to be maintained for a period of 3 to 6 months depending on the country.

For care management, you present to health professionals in France your European Health Insurance Card (EHIC).

Before you leave, you must apply to your health insurance organization for a certificate of transfer of entitlement to health insurance benefits in the event that the entitlement to this scheme is to be maintained:

• EHIC or the certificate in its place
• Or the S1 portable document

If you are not entitled to a social insurance policy, you must contact the health insurance of your place of residence in France to determine under what conditions you may be entitled to social insurance.

If you come to work and reside in France as an expatriate, you are insured in France (with exceptions, for example, if you are a public servant).

Within the framework of the universal health protection (Puma), any person working in France shall be entitled to the payment of his health costs from 1^era time of activity. Thus, if you have a professional activity in France, you are immediately entitled to the payment of health expenses.

In case of incapacity for work After a resumption of activity in France, the French health insurance fund will ask your last foreign health insurance fund for form S041 (formerly E104).

This form allows the aggregation of insurance periods completed in the previous country of employment with the French insurance periods to avoid a waiting for entitlement.

If you are temporarily posted by your employer (Maximum 24 months unless derogated) in France and you reside there, you continue to be covered by the social security scheme of your country of origin.

In order to benefit from the care that will be provided to you in France as if you were affiliated to it, you must register for the French Social Security system.

For that, you must, before you leave, request document S1.

You should ask the health insurance organization you report to in your country of origin.

Once in FranceHowever, it must be handed over to the health insurance fund of your home. You will then benefit from the support for expenses in France.

You will continue to receive your health insurance from your country of affiliation for all care received in your country of origin.

Your family members who accompany you to France can also benefit, under certain conditions, from the reimbursement of the care provided to them in France.

If you are an official of another European country, sent to France (e.g. diplomatic staff), you remain subject to the social protection scheme of the country to which your administration belongs.

In order to receive reimbursement for your medical treatment in France, you must first ask your affiliation organization on S1 document (registration for health insurance coverage).

You must then present this document to the competent health insurance fund in France.

If you are retired from another European country and come to live your retirement in France, you can transfer your rights French Health Insurance.

You have to ask to the fund of the country in which your pension is duedocument S1(registration for health insurance coverage).

It is this fund that sends the document to your health insurance fund in France.

This document allows your attachment to the French social security system.

Your family members accompanying you to France must also apply for the S1 document.

If you hold a pension exclusively from the Swiss scheme and you reside in France, you benefit froma right of option.