Chapter I: PROCEDURE BEFORE THE FRENCH OFFICE FOR THE PROTECTION OF REFUGEES AND APATRIDS

The Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides (French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons) decides, after a single investigation, whether to recognise refugee status or grant subsidiary protection.

The conditions and time limits for examining applications for asylum submitted to the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons are set by decree in the Council of State. .

It is the applicant’s responsibility to present, as quickly as possible, all the information necessary to support his/her asylum application. These elements consist of their statements and any documents they have concerning their age, their personal history, including that of their family, their identity, their nationality or nationalities, their travel documents, the countries and places where they have previously resided, their previous asylum applications, their itinerary and the reasons justifying…

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons will decide on the application, taking into account the situation prevailing in the applicant’s country of origin on the date of its decision, the applicant’s personal situation and statements, the evidence and information he or she has submitted and, where applicable, the activities he or she has pursued since leaving his or her country of origin and which would…

The fact that the applicant has been subjected to persecution or serious harm or to direct threats of such persecution or harm constitutes a serious indication of the well-founded nature of the applicant’s fear of persecution or of the real risk of suffering serious harm, unless there are specific and detailed grounds for believing that such persecution or serious harm will not recur.Where part of the applicant’s statements is not…

The collection by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons of information necessary for the examination of an asylum application must not have the effect of revealing to the alleged perpetrators of persecution or serious harm the existence of this asylum application or information concerning it.Without prejudice to the provisions of article L. 532-9, information placed in the applicant’s file or relating to their sources, the…

If new elements are presented by the asylum seeker while the procedure concerning his/her application is underway, they will be examined, within the framework of this procedure, by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons if it has not yet made a decision or by the National Court for the Right of Asylum if it is seized.