Chapter III: OFFICIAL ENFORCEMENT OF A DECISION TO REFUSE ENTRY AT THE FRONTIER

The decision to refuse a foreign national entry to French territory may be enforced ex officio by the administrative authority.

The foreign national may refuse to be repatriated before the expiry of the period of one clear day.A foreign national who is a minor and is not accompanied by a legal representative may not be repatriated before the expiry of the same period.This article does not apply to refusals of entry notified at France’s land border.

When a foreign national is refused entry into France, the air or sea transport company that carried him or her is obliged to return him or her without delay, at the request of the authorities responsible for controlling people at the border, to the point where he or she began using the company’s means of transport. If this is not possible, the foreign national will be returned to the State…

The obligation to reroute a foreign national set out in article L. 333-3 is applicable, in the case of transit by air or sea, in the following situations: 1° The transport company that was to take the foreign national to the country of destination later refuses to take him on board; 2° The authorities in the country of destination have refused the foreign national entry and sent him back to…

When entry has been refused, the costs of re-routing the foreign national are the responsibility of the air, sea, rail or road transport company operating international routes in the form of regular lines, occasional services or shuttle services, excluding border traffic, which brought him or her to France. The same applies when the foreign national is placed in a waiting zone pursuant to the second paragraph of article L. 341-1….