Section 5: Request for review

An application for reconsideration is an asylum application submitted after a final decision has been taken on a previous application.The fact that the applicant has explicitly withdrawn his previous application, or that the final decision has been taken pursuant to articles L. 531-37 or L. 531-38, or that the applicant has left the territory, even to return to their country of origin, does not prevent the application of the provisions…

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons will carry out a preliminary examination of the facts or new information presented by the applicant which arose after the final decision on a previous application or of which it is established that the applicant could not have been aware until after this decision.During the preliminary examination, the Office may decide not to conduct an interview.Where, following this preliminary…