10 questions on registering at ILCF

Thanks to our registration portal, you can pre-register, pay for your courses, and book and pay for various services (housing, airport transfer, etc.).
  Upon registration, you will receive the following documents :

• Pre-registration certificate (required for visa applications, processed by the French consulate or embassy in your home country).
• Your invitation for a French competency exam, scheduled for a specific day and time.

• If you take the online exam, an oral interview will be necessary upon your arrival to definitively determine your language level.
• For both the online and on-site exam, you will receive an invitation by e-mail with the precise day and time of the exam.

• The week preceding the start of classes for semester sessions.
• The first day of classes for short sessions.

Depending on your language level and preferred number of hours per week, an instructor will help you choose the most appropriate courses and organize your personalized schedule.

• Your courses and school schedule are pre-determined and set.

• You construct your personalized school schedule, by choosing the number of hours per week and the types of classes that most interest you (civilization, language perfection, phonetics, etc.).

• You have no need for a visa and no procedure is necessary.

• You must contact either a Campus France site or your local French embassy for information regarding all necessary procedures and the type of visa required.

We recommend that you register as soon as possible, for if you must obtain a visa, you will have to respect a visa accordance deadline (rarely under 4 weeks).

• You remain covered by your home country’s social security system; remember to request and bring with you your European Health Insurance Card.

• You must sign up for student social security. This registration is free but mandatory.

• We recommend that you take out a private health insurance policy to cover you during your stay in France.

Our courses are open to all students 18 years and older, having obtained a baccalauréat or equivalent diploma.

At the end of each session, we furnish an FLE Certificate specifying :

• The type of course taken.
• The language level attained according to CEFRL.
• The number of hours taken.

ILCF serves as an exam centre for the Paris Chamber of Commerce and Industry: here, you can take the DFP professional French exam for a variety of fields (business, diplomacy, fashion & design, etc.), as well as the TEF French competency exam.

• Book/primer purchases: your instructor might recommend that you buy a French primer or grammar book.
• Each instructor is free to choose his/her class materials.
• Course fees do not cover the cost of purchasing any books/primers.