BEFORE YOU LEAVE
What health travel insurance with the European Health Insurance card
Find an internship abroad and choose your internship travel insurance
Long term travelling and social security
* You will practice a manual activity? You need to subscribe to a specific extension:
The manual activity extension Sports and leisure Plus will extend your coverage to consequences of an accident you have suffered, due to the use of a two-wheeled motor vehicle, high risks sports (surfing, windsurfing, rafting, climbing, scuba diving down to 45 meters, kitesurfing, hang-gliding, paragliding, jet skiing, snowboarding, quad), manual labor, work experience and laboratory internship (labor accident).
The sports covered by your travel insurance without additional coverage: Leisure and holiday sports are covered provided they are performed as "amateur"
The following sports are also covered:
- Winter sports practice including skiing and sledding.
- Sea cruises,
- Any aircraft as a passenger,
- Practice of ice hockey in states or regions where this sport is practiced by youth within the age of the insured.
Sports and leisure coverage : coverage of the consequences of an accident you were victim to while practicing one of the sports listed in annex 1 of the General Conditions of Insurance.
In the case of accident while practicing a sport in a club, the Insurer will act as secondary insurer after all the insurance coverage of your sport club available.
PRACTICAL INFORMATION:
Australia:
Once you have your student visa, you can ask for your student social security card. It will be useful, but be careful, it will not replace your travel insurance.
Get your student Australian social security card OSHC.
Canada:
To limit "fake students", Canada has profoundly reformed its issuance procedures of student visas. You can read the main changes below:
www.cic.gc.ca/francais/etudier/.
China:
Chinese Embassy in France lists all the documents you need to bring in order to apply for your student visa:
www.amb-chine.fr. Check out our article on Chinese student visa application.
In the USA:
There are several categories of visas for those wishing to study in the United States. Immigration makes the difference between the "general or linguistic Studies" and "Business and specialized studies".
In fact, it is not necessary to obtain such a visa to attend classes "in an institution offering recreational activities such as tennis or golf" or "if you go for a trip in the United States during which you will occasionally attend classes. »
Read our articles on the subject:
Study in a high school in the USA with the appropriate student insurance
Travelling to North America: how to choose your travel insurance USA?
Coming to study in France or Europe? Read more about our Europe student insurance offer