The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons terminates refugee status, on its own initiative or at the request of the administrative authority, when the person concerned falls under one of the cessation clauses provided for in section C of article 1 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951. For the application of sections 5 and 6 of the same section C, the change in circumstances that justified recognition of refugee status must be sufficiently significant and lasting for the refugee’s fear of persecution to no longer be considered well-founded.
The Office will also terminate refugee status at any time, on its own initiative or at the request of the administrative authority, in the following cases:
1° The refugee should have been excluded from refugee status pursuant to sections D, E or F of Article 1 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951;
2° The decision to recognise refugee status was the result of fraud;
3° The refugee must, in view of circumstances arising after recognition of that status, be excluded from it pursuant to sections D, E or F of Article 1 of the Geneva Convention of 28 July 1951.