Ordinance of 16 July 2025 Extending and Adapting the Provisions of the Law of 26 January 2024 on Immigration Control and Integration Improvement to Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and the TAAF

This ordinance extends the key provisions of France's immigration control and integration law of 26 January 2024 to several French overseas collectivities and territories, including Saint-Barthélemy, Saint-Martin, Wallis and Futuna, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and marginally the French Southern and Antarctic Lands (TAAF). The extension is carried out with necessary adaptations to account for the specific legal and institutional frameworks applicable in each territory. The January 2024 law introduced a range of measures aimed at tightening immigration control, strengthening residence permit conditions, and enhancing integration requirements for foreign nationals in metropolitan France. This ordinance ensures that equivalent measures now apply across French overseas territories, creating greater legal uniformity in immigration policy throughout French jurisdiction. The adaptations reflect constitutional and statutory distinctions between metropolitan France and overseas collectivities, particularly those with significant legislative autonomy such as French Polynesia and New Caledonia. Certain provisions are applied in modified or limited form to respect local competencies and institutional arrangements. The TAAF are only marginally affected due to the very limited permanent resident population in those territories, with only a small subset of provisions being extended there.

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