Section 3: Personalised interview at the start of the republican integration programme

The personalised interview referred to in article R. 413-3 is designed to inform foreign nationals, with regard to their settlement plans, of the territorial range of services available to facilitate, in particular, their professional integration and their reception and integration conditions pursuant to 3° and 4° of article L. 413-3 and to assess their French language skills under the conditions set out in article R. 413-9.

During the personalised interview mentioned in article R. 413-3, the Office français de l’immigration et de l’intégration assesses the foreign national’s language training needs using a test of oral and written knowledge of the French language. This test is set by an order of the Minister responsible for reception and integration on the basis of the Council of Europe’s Common European Framework of Reference for Languages as adopted by the…