Question 1876 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Philippe Gomès draws the attention of the Minister for Overseas Territories to the situation of Caledonian students who are pursuing their higher studies in mainland France, today considered by the French administration as foreign students and forced, as such, to carry out very difficult procedures for their installation and their daily life. He notes that these difficulties are particularly problematic with regard to their registration with INSEE, from which their affiliation with social security directly results, essential in particular for access to care via the Vitale card, housing assistance, university registration, etc. He questions the fact that Decree No. 82-103 of January 22, 1982 relating to the national directory for the identification of natural persons provides, in its article 2, that “The [INSEE] directory includes persons born in the territory of the French Republic” and, in its article 9-1, that “the provisions of this decree are applicable in New Caledonia”. He recalls that this legal provision has never been applied for New Caledonia, while nearly 3,000 students are currently present on metropolitan soil, and that around 400 Caledonians medically evacuated each year face similar difficulties. He notices that in June 2016, the interministerial delegation for equal opportunities for French overseas people had made this crucial problem a priority and indicated, as such, that INSEE would do everything possible to ensure that students from the Pacific, and nationals of these territories having to go to France for reasons of health emergency or medical care, “are now registered before their arrival”. He regrets that this measure was provisionally applied since all files awaiting INSEE registration have been foreclosed since December 31, 2016. He underlines that many of these Caledonians today feel the feeling of being considered “foreigners” in their own country. He adds that the moral violence generated by this obvious form of discrimination has a very heavy impact on the number of dropouts from current studies. of year. He would therefore like to know what measures the Government intends to take to correct this unequal treatment between French people in France and those from overseas, and thus allow the 500 New Caledonian students who choose each year to study in mainland France, as well as the 400 who escape per year, to be treated in the same conditions as all other French citizens.

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