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<p>I do not think the company arranges the visa. My daughter has done two summer paid internships in France where she applied directly to the companies herself, not through school. She also had to arrange with the French consulate office in the US to get a work visa which involved many papers. I believe the firms she worked for had one form on their end to fill out too, along with many papers she had to secure. The companies themselves did not arrange for her visas, however.</p>
<p>That said, I agree with the advice here to look into abroad programs through either one’s own university or a college that has offers such programs to students from any university that one’s own college will accept (my daughter also studied abroad through a university that was not her own one semester).</p>