Social security: how to prove your legal status in France?
Verified 13 March 2023 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
You must demonstrate that you are complying with the condition of regularity of the stay if you You're not European.
This is the case if you are not a national of an EU countryEuropean Economic Area or Switzerland.
Non-European
You can benefit from Social Security. You will be reimbursed for part of the medical expenses: consultations, medication, hospital expenses...
For this, you must fulfill the condition of regularity of the stay. It is appreciated on the day of your request.
To attest to the regularity of your situation, you can provide, depending on the case, one of the following valid documents:
- Resident Card
- Resident card marked ‘long-term resident - EU’
- Permanent resident card
- Multi-annual residence permit
- Multi-annual residence card "talent passport"
- Temporary residence permit
- Residence card marked ‘retired’
- Residence card bearing the words: ‘Residence card of family member of a Union/EEA/Swiss citizen - all professional activities’
- Residence card bearing the words: ‘residence card of a family member of a Union citizen - all professional activities, except employees’
- Residence card bearing the words: ‘Directive 2004-38/EC - Permanent residence - all professional activities’
- Long-stay visa as a residence permit as long as it has been the subject of the proceedings before the French Immigration Office (Ofii)
- Residence permit issued to an Andorran national or to a third-country national who is a member of his family mentioning the Convention signed on 4 December 2000 between the French Republic, the Kingdom of Spain and the Principality of Andorra on the entry, movement, stay and establishment of their nationals
- Certificate of residence of Algerian national
- Receipt of application for renewal of one of the above-mentioned titles
- Certificate of application for asylum
- Receipt of application for a residence permit bearing the words ‘recognized refugee’
- Receipt of application for a residence permit with the words ‘has been granted subsidiary protection’
- Temporary residence permit
- Monegasque passport bearing a mention of the Consul General of France in Monaco as a residence permit
- Otherwise, any valid personal document issued by the prefecture of the place of your residence to certify that you are registered in the application for managing the files of foreigners nationals in France.
European
You don't need to justify your situation in France.
Conditions for a foreigner's membership of social security (Article L115-6)
Conditions for a foreigner's membership of social security
List of documents proving that the person is in a legal situation
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