The republican integration contract is concluded for a period of one year.
This contract is respected as long as the training courses it provides for have been followed assiduously and seriously and the foreign national has not shown any rejection of the essential values of French society and the Republic. Where the prescribed language training lasts for more than one year, the Prefect will assess compliance with the attendance and seriousness requirements at the end of the first year, in the light of the opinion of the Office français de l’immigration et de l’intégration (French Immigration and Integration Office). Subject to the second paragraph, the contract is terminated in the month following the end of the prescribed training period.
When the civic and linguistic training courses prescribed and duly completed are in progress at the end of the contract, the Prefect may, for a legitimate reason and on the recommendation of the Office and subject to the foreign national’s lawful residence status, extend the Republican Integration Contract by up to a further year.