France → United Kingdom: Student visa

Your current passport, or other valid travel documentation, to apply with.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: documents you must provide

If you've received official financial sponsorship for your course fees and living costs in the last 12 months, for example from a national government or a university, you need written consent for your application from that sponsor.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: documents you must provide

If you're using your parent's money to show you can pay for your course and living costs, it must be in an account they control, and they must provide a letter confirming they agree to you using it this way.

Source: UK Home Office, Financial evidence for Student and Child Student route applicants

You must still have enough money for your course fees plus living costs of £1,529 a month in London, or £1,171 a month outside London, for up to 9 months, held for at least 28 days in a row ending no more than 31 days before you apply. Because of your nationality, you usually don't need to send this evidence, or the documents you used to get your course offer, with your application, as long as you apply from the country where you live, or from inside the UK. The Home Office can still ask for them, so keep them ready.

Source: UK Home Office, Immigration Rules: Appendix Student (ST 22.1 differential evidence requirement)

£845 a month if you're in London, or £680 a month outside London, for each dependant, for up to 9 months, held the same way as your own funds (at least 28 consecutive days, ending within 31 days of your application).

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: family members (partner and children)

A CAS reference number from your course provider (a licensed student sponsor), confirming your offer and course details. If your CAS is invalid, your application will be refused.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: documents you must provide

Written consent from both parents or legal guardians (or one, if they have sole responsibility), covering your visa application, your living and care arrangements in the UK, and your travel to the UK, plus a document such as your birth certificate showing your parents' names.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: documents you must provide

A marriage or civil partnership certificate for a partner, or a birth certificate for a child (a full UK birth certificate showing both parents, if the child was born in the UK), plus two documents confirming a child's address.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: family members (partner and children)

You must show you can speak, read, write and understand English: CEFR level B2 for a degree-level course or above, or B1 below degree level. This can be a Secure English Language Test (SELT), a qualifying UK school qualification, a degree taught in English (checked by Ecctis if not from a UK institution), or, at degree level, your provider's own assessment. You don't need to prove it if you're a citizen of a British overseas territory, you completed a qualification equal to a UK degree in a majority English-speaking country on the gov.uk list, you proved your English in a previous visa application, or you're coming on a study abroad programme that's part of a US university degree.

Source: UK Home Office, Student visa: knowledge of English