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Article R711-1 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

The decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory is deemed to have been executed on the date on which one of the following stamps has been affixed to the travel documents of the foreign national who is the subject of it:1° The stamp referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EU) 2016/399 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2016 on a Union Code on…

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Article R711-2 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

A foreign national who has been the subject of a decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory may also prove that he has left the territory by establishing by any means his actual presence in the country of destination, in particular by presenting himself in person to the French consular representations there or to the representation of the French Office of Immigration and Integration.Unless there is proof to the…

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Article R721-1 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

In the event of an asylum application being rejected, the Director General of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons shall inform the competent Prefect of the documents referred to in Article L. 721-2 of which he or she has the original or a copy.At the request of the Prefect, the Director General of the Office shall communicate these documents to officials personally and specially authorised…

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Article R721-2 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

The departmental prefect and, in Paris, the police prefect are competent to determine the country of return of a foreign national in the event of the automatic enforcement of the following decisions: 1° A decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory; or 2° A ban on returning to French territory;> and 3° The implementation of a decision taken by another State; 4° A ban on movement on French territory;…

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Article R*721-3 of the French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylum

The Minister of the Interior is competent to determine the country of removal in the event of compulsory enforcement in the following cases:1° When the foreign national, present on French territory, is subject to an administrative ban on entry;2° When he himself has issued the expulsion decision to which the foreign national is subject ; however, the prefect of the département and, in Paris, the prefect of the police are…

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