Article R142-21 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum
Any file that has not been updated within five years of the recording of the first data it contains shall be deleted, except in the following cases: 1° A file containing data relating to a residence permit or travel document is deleted if, after the expiry of the document, a period of five years has elapsed without the file having been updated ; 2° The file of a foreign national…