When the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory taken pursuant to 1°, 2° or 4° of article L. 611-1 is accompanied by a deadline for voluntary departure, the matter may be referred to the president of the administrative court within fifteen days of notification of the decision.
The prohibition on return provided for in article L. 612-7, notified after the decision imposing an obligation to leave French territory, may be contested under the same conditions.
The hearing shall be public. It takes place without the public rapporteur’s conclusions, in the presence of the person concerned, unless the latter, duly summoned, does not appear. The foreign national is assisted by his or her counsel if he or she has one. The foreign national may ask the president of the administrative court or the magistrate appointed for this purpose to appoint one for him/her ex officio.
When the foreign national challenges a decision imposing an obligation to leave the territory based on 4° of article L. 611-1 and a decision relating to residency taken at the same time, the president of the administrative court or the magistrate appointed for this purpose shall rule on the two challenges in a single decision.