Immigration and removals are hampered by the CVIV-19 crisis. The demand for asylum leaves on the rise but remains significantly less than 2019.
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These are controversial figures, a fortiori in a context of presidential campaign. The Ministry of the Interior had to publish, Thursday, January 20, the number of residence permits issued in 2021. A measure of immigration, partial, which reflects the content of a migration policy and, again today, the Consequences of the health crisis on population movements.
According to the estimates of the Aliens Directorate in France, the country issued in 2021 some 272,000 securities of residence, an increase of 21.9% compared to 2020. This increase is however in trompe -This, both the year 2020 was marked by a drastic fall of the securities, in a pandemic context (stopping transport and administrations and closure of borders). In fact, the level of 2019 is in the process of being caught up with the exception of humanitarian titles whose number increases to 43,000 (it is essentially refugees), compared to 33,000 in 2020 and less than 38,000 in 2019. The department sees the effect of an effort to process asylum applications pending by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless (OFPRA) thanks in particular to staffing reinforcements (overall time. treatment of an application are around fourteen months).
In doing so, the asylum application starts on the rise, with 103,011 applications filed at the OFPRA in 2021, but remains significantly less than 2019. Afghans are by far the first nationality of the applicants (the year A also been marked by the evacuation operations of some 3,000 citizens since Kabul, whose asylum applications are processed in priority). Then come the Ivorians, Bangladeshi and Guineans. The average protection rate is stable at 39%.
Net recoil of regularizations
The global, the volume distribution of the first titles issued remains unchanged. More than 88,000 were awarded for family reasons, which remains the main regular entry category on the territory and which consists mainly of French spouses. Then come the 85,000 student visas (which are intended to leave in their country of origin at the end of their curriculum) and the 36,000 residence permits for economic reasons, including by the highly qualified immigration system of the “passport talent “(about 11,000 first).
All these figures are finally taken into account of the British residents which, consequently the Brexit, are, since the $ 1 October 2021, in the obligation to hold a residence permit to reside in France . They were more than 96,000 in this case at the end of 2021. The Ministry of the Interior has made the choice to isolate them statistically.
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