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usfrenchie
  12/12/2021 10:13 EST

I am dual french us citizen and my wife us citizen. I will collect next year my us and french social security..I will move back to France next year.I wonder if somebody in this forum is in the same case and had already moved to france and how long it took to be in the health system.
Thank you for any response

ellenyparis
  12/12/2021 18:24 EST

You need documents to to demonstrate 3 months of French residence to apply for French government health insurance. but you can't get residence without French health insurance. Your US gov't. insurance is irrelevant, so for a start, you need PRIVATE French insurance. Cost of the latter is not exorbitant, but if you buy private "international" health insurance from a US co., cost IS exorbitant.
As a French citizen, you're entitled to free Fr. government insurance, but as I said at the top, I believe you still need to prove Fr. RESIDENCE. Your wife also has to prove residence but when she does, her Fr. govt health insurance WON'T be free.... Once I understood the requirements and had the right residence docs, govt. health insurance was took time but not a lot of trouble. By contrast, visitor's 1-year renewable visa was hard; an attorney (or consultant) is not a bad idea. Even had I been *the wife of a Fr. citizen,* neither Fr. health insurance nor visa would have been much easier to obtain. At least that's my distinct impression....

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usfrenchie
  12/12/2021 21:38 EST

Thak you for your respone

usfrenchie
  12/13/2021 07:57 EST

Ellenyparis
Could you recommend any french insurance cie
Thanks

ellenyparis
  12/21/2021 15:51 EST

I've been traveling. I will do if I can dig it up. This goes back to 2015. Give me some time, I probably can find it....

usfrenchie
  12/21/2021 18:41 EST

Thank you ellen.
There is no rush. Whenever you can.

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