#2024-42Law on Immigration Control and Integration Improvement
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This law addresses various aspects of immigration control in France, aiming to improve the integration of foreigners. It mandates the government to report annually on migration data and integrates new rules on residence permits, work authorization, and family reunification. The law also examines stricter measures for those not complying with immigration laws and strengthens the requirements for foreigners to assimilate into French society, including language proficiency and civic education.
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Key Changes
- Mandates annual government reporting on various immigration statistics.
- Introduces stricter conditions for residence and work permits.
- Enhances language and civic education requirements for foreigners.
Obligations
What this law requires
Government must submit an annual report to Parliament before June 1st each year covering the previous ten years, detailing visa approvals/rejections, residence permits, family reunification admissions, work immigration, refugee status grants, unaccompanied minors in child welfare services, and other specified migration metrics for metropolitan France and overseas territories.
Annual government report must include specific data on student visa types, disaggregated by country, indicating number of approvals/rejections, average processing time, Campus France opinions (positive/negative), and student dropout rates during studies in France.
Annual government report must include data on work authorizations granted or refused, removal measures actually implemented compared to decisions pronounced, and efforts to combat irregular entry and residence, including procedures, numbers, and costs.
Government must provide qualitative evaluation of compliance with the national asylum seeker reception scheme and present demographic, economic, geopolitical, social, and cultural conditions of national immigration and integration policy.
Observations from the French Office of Immigration and Integration (OFII) and the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons (OFPRA) must be attached to the annual government report, with OFPRA indicating developments in designated safe countries of origin.