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Registration of asylum applications starts again and the OFII telephone platform must reopen
Interrupted since the 17 th of March in Ile de France and since the 27 th March in Paris due to the COVID-19 crisis, the french administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d'Etat) ordered to the Minister of the Interior to restore the registration of asylum applications within 5 days after the notification of its decision published on April the 30 th (n° 440250, n°440253). The french administrative Supreme Court (Conseil d'Etat) also ordered the French Office for Immigration a
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The obligation to take an appointment in prefecture online is illegal !
It is only very recently, and it was about time, that the french administrative Supreme Court (le Conseil d’État) ruled on 27th November 2019 (N° 422516) that the referral to the administration by electronic means could not legally be made compulsory. This decision concerned the challenge of the Prime Minister’s implicit decision which refused to amend the 27 May 2016 decree authorising teleservices for the implementation of the right of users to refer to the administration
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For an access of foreigners to the prefectures !
A couple of years ago, endless waiting lines could be observed in front of the prefectures. Today, this phenomenon is less obvious because most of Ile-de-France’s prefectures have switched to an IT system. Thus, to ask for a residence permit, foreigners have to take an appointment on the website of their assigned prefecture. A difficult access to the appointment section of the website This change in procedure turned out underperforming for foreigners. On the one hand, they
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The residence permit for job seekers/entrepreneurs: a step forward for foreign students graduating in France
Since 1 March 2019, the temporary residence permit " job seekers or business creation" has replaced the temporary 12-month non-renewable residence permit issued to graduate students. The " job seekers or business creation " residence permit is mainly intended for students and researchers who have recently graduated or are at the end of their studies and who wish to look for a job in France or create a company. This residence permit complies with Article 25 of Directive 2016
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