
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez detailed his strategy to accelerate the processing of residence permits, regulate work-based regularizations, and intensify expulsions of Algerian nationals in irregular situations during an interview with Le Figaro on April 10. His plan focuses on three main areas: reducing administrative delays for residence permit applications, managing regularizations, and expelling Algerians without proper documentation. Nuñez affirmed his refusal to modify the existing legal framework regarding undocumented immigrants, stating, "I will not touch the Retailleau circular. We are not going back on it; we are applying it." He noted that the exceptional admission procedure for professions experiencing labor shortages resulted in only 1,700 residence permits last year, a figure he considers modest. The minister aims to boost this mechanism, which was established by the 2024 immigration law, and has instructed prefects to process pending applications, responding to requests from economic stakeholders. He emphasized that combating irregular immigration and border repatriations remain priorities. Nuñez also advocates for stricter application of residence permit withdrawals for failures to adhere to republican principles or threats to public order. To address the backlog of renewal applications, the Interior Minister committed to reducing processing times by recruiting 500 full-time temporary staff to support prefectures. He attributed current bottlenecks to
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