Bruno Retailleau wishes to “master” more migratory flows in France more. For this, the Minister of the Interior should soon send an AAU prefect cirular.
The Minister of the Interior Bruno Retailleau changes the philosophy of the Valls circular which allows the prefectures each year to regularize by work or for family reasons more than 30,000 undocumented migrants, by publishing a new text which clearly hardens the tone in matters regularization.
Droppings on drop
“The route of exceptional admission to the stay (AES) is not the normal path of immigration and access to the stay. Avantly from foreigners in an irregular situation, it must remain an exceptional path”writes the minister in a three -page circular addressed to the prefects and revealed by Le Figaro and of which AFP was aware.
Bruno Retailleau must present this new circular, a promise of droppings on Friday during a trip to the Yvelines.
Holding a line of firmness on immigration, Minister LR announced on multiple times his intention to review the Valls circular supposed to give the “the” to prefectures in terms of regularization on a case -by -case basis of foreigners in an irregular situation.
Unknown to the general public, this circular has since allowed a foreigner in an irregular situation since 2012 to request a “Exceptional admission to the stay” For family, economical or student reasons. It is up to the prefect to accept it or not.
Bosses who struggle to recruit and want to regularize employees in order to avoid turnover, a school that mobilizes for a family threatened with expulsion however well integrated in the village, students that a university wants to keep: as many Case that the so -called Valls circular made it possible to resolve.
If the Retailleau circular does not properly change the criteria to obtain this “Exceptional admission to the stay”it clearly asks the prefects to tighten the screw in terms of regularization.
Thus the Valls circular promoted an immigration policy “Lucid and balanced” and enjoined the prefects at “A just taken into account of human realities” by emphasizing the regularization criteria.
“Mapping migratory flows”
Bruno Retailleau puts him in highlight: “Mastering migratory flows, in particular by the fight against irregular immigration, and the strengthening of the integration of foreigners in France constitute the priorities of the government”.
-He also insisted on the membership of the undocumented foreigner to “Principles of the Republic” among which secularism but also the mastery of the French language, which will be “appreciated favorably” By justifying a French diploma or a language certification. The foreigners likely to constitute a threat to public order are excluded.
In 2023, the circular had enabled 34,724 people to obtain papers (+0.3 % compared to 2022), according to data from the Ministry of the Interior: 11,525 for work, 22,167 for family reasons, and a thousand under student status.
To be eligible, a undocumented worker must in theory live for at least three years in France and justify at least two years of work. But in the new circular which will soon be published, Mr. Retailleau writes that“A period of presence of at least 7 years is one of the relevant integration indices”.
“We must not overvalue legal scope” From this text, comments with AFP Gwenaële Calves, professor of public law at the University of Cergy-Pontoise.
“The exceptional regularization is the power of appreciation of the prefect, this circular does not in any way modify the other methods of regularization established by law. A circular cannot obviously modify a law”adds the academic.
“The prefect retains a discretionary role, but his appreciation power is framed by this circular”explains Gwenaële Calves.
“This circular calls for prefects more severity, but for example the floor of seven years of stay to be regularized on an exceptional basis can always be lowered if other elements of the file argue in this sense”she explains.
So in the Barnier government, the Minister of the Interior had sent another muscular circular to the prefects at the end of October claiming “results” for “the resumption of control of our immigration”.
Provided by the Immigration law promulgated in early 2024, the updating of the list of trades in tension in which undocumented workers can be regularized should be published “at the end of February”, said on Sunday the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan -Bouvet.
