Section 2: Procedure for recognition of statelessness

The Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) recognises the status of stateless person to persons fulfilling the conditions mentioned in article L. 582-1, at the end of a procedure defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons will notify the applicant for stateless status of its decision in writing, by any means guaranteeing confidentiality and personal receipt of this notification. All rejection decisions must state the reasons in fact and in law and specify the appeal procedures and deadlines.No decision on an application for stateless status may arise from silence kept by the office.