The Ministry for Europe and Foreign Affairs announced Thursday the imminent establishment of the first "laissez-passer" to allow the reunion, in France, of binational couples separated for months by the pandemic and the closure of borders.
“There is a procedure that was put in place at the beginning of August.
It is not satisfactory because it is too slow and has not made it possible to respond to these problems ”, admitted on France Inter the new Secretary of State for European Affairs, Clément Beaune.
"I hope that at the end of the week, early next week, we will have the first passes," he said.
This derogatory procedure concerns unmarried Franco-foreign couples who have not had a partnership and who have not had their cohabitation recognized.
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The latter have been warning about their fate since the beginning of the summer.
An international campaign called "Love is not tourism" was launched in June on social networks by these couples dissolved by these bureaucratic complications.
On August 8, however, a first derogatory procedure had been announced by the Secretary of State for Tourism, Jean-Baptise Lemoyne.
But considered "too complicated", it had never been implemented within the consular network, leaving these couples in great disarray.
Demonstration scheduled for September 27
The approach is delicate, because it is a question of establishing the reality of these sentimental relations at a distance with a view to a "laissez-passer", for a temporary entry in France, without opening a breach in the existing migration regulations.
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Concretely, it will be a question of proving “the existence of common activities over time, or the proof of previous stays in France, provided by invoices, plane tickets, etc.
», Indicates a source at the Quai d'Orsay.
The collective calls on the couples concerned to demonstrate on September 27 at 2 p.m. in front of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.