Question 10776 — French people abroad

Summary

Ms. Amélia Lakrafi draws the attention of the Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs to the situation of many French people residing outside France who have not completed their consular registration. As of December 31, 2017, 1,821,519 French people appear on the register of French people living abroad, but the authorities agree that this number is quite far from reality. Thus, INSEE estimated in 2015 at 3.4 million the number of French people living outside France. Registration in consular registers, which is neither automatic nor obligatory, nevertheless has a certain practical importance for French people who can thus be granted their identity documents or study grants more easily, for example. But this recording also allows French consular services to warn the French in the event of serious threats that could put them directly in danger. It is, for example, on these lists that the islanding system is based, the usefulness of which no longer needs to be demonstrated. This division into sectors of each foreign State with the designation, for each entity, of a volunteer island leader responsible for the French people living in the territory for which he is responsible, makes it possible, in the event of a crisis, to facilitate regrouping and communication between each actor concerned. Thanks to this device emergency, making it possible to effectively and quickly transmit instructions from consular authorities to our compatriots, the security of French people abroad is optimized. However, several thousand French people, because they have not registered in the consular registers, cannot benefit from this system. This situation exists in particular including the tenth constituency of French people living abroad which includes some areas of instability particularly political and which will see several elections take place soon. According to the testimonies brought to his attention, many French people established abroad refuse to register on the consular lists due to the cumbersome procedure. This requires in particular having a scanner to digitize official documents and requires the provision of supporting documents in due form, which is difficult available in some countries. In this context, she would like to question him on the feasibility of setting up a second level of registration with the consular authorities, whose registration procedures would be simplified, like what is practiced within the framework of the Ariane system, and whose use would be reserved for the dissemination of information relating to security.

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