First 30 Days in France
The order your first month should follow — what to do first, what depends on what, and where early mistakes cascade.
Public guides · France
Free orientation for people moving to France — written with the same source discipline as the paid system. These guides show you the shape of the process: what to prioritize, how to check a rule against its official source, and what the French administrative vocabulary actually means. They are a starting layer, not advice. Verify every regulated step against the official source before acting.
Wave 1
The order your first month should follow — what to do first, what depends on what, and where early mistakes cascade.
A four-step method for checking whether a rule is official, current, and applies to your exact situation.
Plain-English definitions of the terms you will meet — titre de séjour, justificatif de domicile, VLS-TS, RIB, and more.
Wave 2
What French law lets a landlord ask for, the state-backed guarantor and dossier tools, and how to apply for a lease before you've set foot in France.
The document file to build before you fly — the universal core, what varies by visa, and the system that keeps one missing paper from blocking you later.
The structural reason French relocation admin feels chaotic — and the sequencing fix that makes it manageable.
France isn't one lifestyle — it's several. A framework for matching the city to the life you actually want, before any admin begins.
From orientation to system
The Relocation Manual — France Edition turns this orientation into a full operator's system: a status-aware sequence, a process tracker, French-language templates, and an AI planning companion.