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Your French deadlines & renewals

French admin doesn't stop once you've arrived — it just goes quiet until a deadline you didn't know about turns up with a fine attached. Enter the dates you have, and this builds you a dated, plain-English plan of what's coming: visa validation, carte de séjour renewal, licence exchange, tax season, the contrôle technique and the rest. Every item links to a proper guide, flags the ones worth getting a human to check, and drops straight into your calendar. It's indicative, not official — but it's the map nobody hands you.

Your dates

All optional — fill what you have. Nothing leaves your browser.

Residency & visas

Date you arrived / became resident Sets your visa-validation and licence-exchange clocks.

Long-stay visa (VLS-TS) expiry So we can time your first carte de séjour application.

Carte de séjour expiry Renewals open 2–4 months before this.

Driving & vehicle

Date you imported a vehicle Must be re-registered within 1 month.

Last contrôle technique Next one is due two years later.

Money, home & documents I own my French home (taxe foncière each autumn) I need to file a French income tax return (each spring)

Home / car insurance renewal date We'll flag the Loi Chatel cancellation window.

UK passport expiry Schengen wants 6+ months left on it.

Fill in a date or two on the left and press Build my deadline plan — your dated list appears here.

Some of these you don't want to get wrong alone

A carte de séjour renewal, a first tax return, a full visa dossier — the deadlines with real consequences are exactly where a second pair of experienced eyes pays for itself. When one of these is looming, a real person can check yours before you file.

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This planner is free, private (your dates stay in your browser) and indicative — a practical map, not official or legal advice. Deadlines, windows and rules vary by your exact status, département and circumstances, and they change; the dates here are guides, not guarantees. Always confirm the specifics with your préfecture, the official Service-Public, ANEF or a qualified professional before you rely on them. Where a date matters, our guides — and, for the consequential ones, a human check — are there to get it right.