Bad news for foreigners in France

Reappointed Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau will implement his migration policy which will hurt foreigners, particularly those who struggle to regularize their situation and find themselves stranded for lack of a residence permit.

Concerns ahead for foreigners in France? Bruno Retailleau will make several changes in the country’s migration policy. In 2025, the Minister of the Interior intends to replace the circular signed in 2012 by Manuel Valls, then Prime Minister, and governing the issuance of residence permits to undocumented immigrants. This circular concerns the regularization of 30,000 people per year while the Retailleau circular will regulate regularizations through the work of undocumented immigrants present in France and strengthen the verification of pay slips and employment contracts at the prefecture level. The new circular must include a new list of professions in shortage. This measure, already provided for by the Darmanin law, never came into force.