Question 20508 — foreigners

Summary

Ms. Alexandra Valetta Ardisson alerts the Minister of the Interior about requests for appointments at the prefecture for foreign nationals applying for a residence permit. In order to provide a quicker response to foreign nationals requesting a residence permit, many French departments have set up a dematerialized online procedure for requests for appointments at the prefecture. However, for several days, many Press articles mention the development of a parallel market which considerably harms the effectiveness of this system. In fact, individuals would pre-empt these appointments at the prefecture as soon as they are put online thanks to a computer program automatically checking the available slots. They would then sell them to foreign nationals. Taking advantage of the distress of these people who are unable to pick up quickly make an appointment with their administration, this parallel market proliferates thanks to social networks, and in particular Facebook pages and groups, run by structured channels. These appointments can sometimes be resold for hundreds of euros. This phenomenon is all the more worrying as requests for residence permits are constantly increasing, even though requests for appointments are already saturating the prefectures. She asks him what measures are planned to put an end to this parallel market which compromises the optimization of procedure time, which distorts the French reception model, and which enriches unscrupulous people.

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