Subsection 2: Validation

Notwithstanding article L. 231-1 of the Code des relations entre le public et l’administration, silence kept for more than one month by the mayor on the request for validation of the reception certificate or by the prefect on the administrative appeal mentioned in article R. 313-12 is deemed to be a rejection decision.

Any contentious appeal against a refusal to validate a reception certificate must be preceded, on pain of inadmissibility, by an administrative appeal to the territorially competent prefect, within two months of this refusal. Before making a decision, the prefect may have the certificate verified by the French Office for Immigration and Integration under the conditions laid down in article L. 313-5. The prefect may also request that the certificate be…

The mayor is kept informed by the consular authority of the action taken on the visa application made on the basis of the validated attestation d’accueil.He sends the prefect a non-nominative annual report on attestations d’accueil, including in particular a count of attestations d’accueil validated and refused and any on-site checks that have been prescribed. .