Any contentious appeal against a refusal to validate a reception certificate must be preceded, on pain of inadmissibility, by an administrative appeal to the territorially competent prefect, within two months of this refusal. Before making a decision, the prefect may have the certificate verified by the French Office for Immigration and Integration under the conditions laid down in article L. 313-5.
The prefect may also request that the certificate be validated by the Office Français de l’Immigration et de l’Intégration (French Office for Immigration and Integration) under the conditions laid down in article L. 313-5.