Question 1460 — foreigners

Summary

Mr. Aly Diouara draws the attention of the Minister of the Interior to the duration of validity of the French assessment tests (TEF) integration, residence, nationality required for any person over 16 years of age who is applying for French nationality, a long-stay resident card or validation of an A1 level as part of the OFII citizenship course. When mastery of level A1 to C2 is established in writing and orally, this is valid for a period of two years from the date of delivery of the results. Given the ever-increasing lengthening of times for obtaining appointments with prefectures following the dematerialization of procedures, the short validity period of TEFs is not without consequences. These failures within State services complicate the process for these applicants, who must also pay a significant sum which is not within the reach of all budgets. The cost of the test, from 170 to 200 euros, effectively excludes the most precarious households and also highlights territorial disparities. Waiting times to access exam sessions, as well as the terms of access to exam centers, vary randomly depending on the territory, thus reinforcing territorial discrimination. According to several testimonies received from residents of the MP's constituency, this condition of validity actually reinforces the difficulties that foreign people encounter in their administrative career. Some denounce this restrictive administrative approach which makes mastery of French an ephemeral faculty for a foreign person, thus ignoring the adaptability that the trajectories cause migration, the multicultural processes at work in the countries of arrival and the resources they are able to mobilize. Beyond questioning the systematization of French assessment tests for access to administrative rights for foreigners, he asks what he intends to implement in order to guarantee equal access to approved examination centers throughout the territory on the one hand, and on the other hand, extend the validity periods of these tests to compensate for the dysfunctions relating to making appointments at the prefecture.

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