Useful information

Many French public services, such as the Préfecture, will request translations of your official documents (birth certificate, marriage certificate, etc). Here are lists of sworn translators.

For your daily and one-off journeys in the Grand Est, the Region provides you with transport services by regional coaches and trains. Special fares and subscriptions are available to students.

Lorraine is well served by trains and international flights.

In France, the registration fee rate for international students from countries oustide the European Union or outside the European Economic Area is set at national level for all universities. But each university may define its own policy on exemption from such tuition fees.

All PhD students enrolled at Université de Lorraine (UL) must pay the CVEC (Contribution Vie Etudiante et de Campus) and PhD tuition fees each year.

You’ve arrived in France with a VLS-TS, within the 3 months following your arrival, you must validate your visa in order to give it the full value of a residence permit.

You have arrived in France with a VLS-TS; within the 3 months following your arrival, you must validate your visa in order to convert it into a resident permit.

A visa gives you the right to enter France. It is issued by the French Consulate in your country of residence.

You want to work in France during or after your studies? Consult this page and get all the information you need.