How to request your French relevé de carrière

Two routes. First, on the info-retraite.fr connexion screen there is an 'accès limité' option that logs you in with just your numéro de sécurité sociale (13 digits) and a few identity details, and its own panel lists 'Ma carrière' as available in that mode - so you may be able to reach the relevé without any FranceConnect account at all. Second, you can create La Poste's Identité Numérique or TrustMe from where you are; both are designed to be set up remotely with just a smartphone and a passport or national ID. And if you would rather not create any digital identity, you can request the relevé by post: write to your CARSAT (the regional pension fund for private-sector employees - Assurance retraite Île-de-France, CS 70009, 93166 Noisy-le-Grand Cedex if you do not know your regional office), or the equivalent for your last régime - MSA for agricultural work, the Service des Retraites de l'État or CNRACL for public-sector work. Include your full name, date and place of birth, postal address, and your social security number if you have it. Third-party guides describe a 2–4 week turnaround; we found no officially published SLA for the postal route.

For logging in specifically, no - FranceConnect authenticates against the account's credentials, not your address. Address mismatches become relevant later, if you go on to actually claim your pension and the paperwork needs a current postal address; they are not a barrier to viewing or downloading the relevé itself.

No - the relevé already exists for anyone who has ever contributed to a French mandatory scheme, salaried or self-employed. There is nothing to sign up for beyond getting through the FranceConnect login; the record has been accumulating in the background since your first contribution.

No, and the distinction matters for what you get. info-retraite.fr is run by GIP Union Retraite and aggregates every mandatory French scheme you have contributed to - the general regime (CNAV/L'Assurance retraite), Agirc-Arrco for salaried private-sector complementary points, and the self-employed, agricultural, liberal-profession and public-service regimes as applicable. lassuranceretraite.fr is L'Assurance Retraite's own site and its career-record tool covers only the general regime - useful if that is genuinely all of your career, incomplete otherwise. Both accept FranceConnect logins; info-retraite.fr is the one that gives you the fuller document.

Go back to the prerequisite stage above - either use the 'accès limité' login (numéro de sécurité sociale only), create La Poste's Identité Numérique or TrustMe remotely, or fall back to the postal request.

Click 'Numéro fiscal oublié ?' on that same impots.gouv.fr screen. It opens a 'Réception par courriel de votre numéro fiscal' box that asks for the email address on your tax account, your date of birth (jour / mois / année) and a captcha, then emails the number to you. If the email on file is one you no longer have from abroad, you'll need to contact the non-resident tax service (Service des Impôts des Particuliers Non-Résidents) to update it before this works.

This is the expected failure mode for an emigrant who has left the French health system - see the prerequisite stage. Switch to impots.gouv.fr or La Poste's Identité Numérique instead.

From age 55 there is a dedicated 'Corriger ma carrière' service on the account for exactly this. At any age, missing or incorrect periods can be queried directly with the relevant caisse - CARSAT for a private-sector employer, Agirc-Arrco separately for complementary points, MSA for agricultural work. Have the employer's name, the dates, and any payslips (bulletins de salaire) to hand; third-party sources report regularisations taking anywhere from about 3 months (CNAV) to 12–18 months (public-sector schemes) to actually appear on the relevé, though we found no officially published SLA to confirm those figures against.

Yes, under the same Regulation 883/2004 that governs Ireland's aggregation. Periods completed under another member state's system are taken into account as if worked in France for the purposes of totalling the quarters needed, with conversion rules set out in Regulation 987/2009. Overlapping periods are counted once. Each country still pays its own pension for its own periods - aggregation affects eligibility, not which country ultimately pays what.

No - as with Ireland, the institutions deal directly with each other. When you actually claim your French pension, L'Assurance Retraite (or the relevant caisse) contacts the counterpart institution abroad to obtain a statement of the periods completed there, rather than relying on you to produce one. Your own relevé is for checking the French side is complete and correct before you claim - corrections are slow, as above, and a gap discovered mid-claim delays everything.