Expulsions from France: once protected, they are now targeted

Since the promulgation of the new “asylum and immigration” law in France, expulsions under OQTF now target several categories of foreigners previously protected by law.

Seriously ill people, parents of French children, spouses of French people and people who arrived in France before the age of 13 are no longer protected by French law. In accordance with the European Convention on Human Rights, this protected them from being ordered to leave French territory (OQTF). Since the promulgation of the new “asylum and immigration” law, they have de facto lost this protection.