The Council of State considered Wednesday, September 8 that there was no need to ask for additional measures for the issuance of visas for the family reunification of Afghan refugees, some of whom have been waiting for years for years in power. join them in France.
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Since the Taliban took power on August 15, family reunification procedures, which had suffered serious delays due to the pandemic and the transfer of the examination of the situations to Islamabad, then to Tehran and New Delhi, have taken a turn for the worse. race pace against the clock.
Several Afghan refugees have turned to the Council of State to try to speed up these files, thousands of which have been at a standstill for two or even three years.
Over 3,500 applications filed
For the requests of Afghan nationals for family reunification, the Interior Ministry has undertaken that any consular post can issue visas to people justifying “
unforeseeable and compelling
”
reasons
that prevented them from submitting their
visa.
request in the consular district on which they depend.
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The administration also announced that measures would be taken soon to adapt the human, material and real estate resources of the embassies concerned, according to security developments
", indicates the Council of State, supreme administrative judge.
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In this very uncertain context, and taking into account the progress made during the investigation, the summary judge considers that there is no need to urge the administration to take additional measures as of today.
», He concludes.
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In a previous decision at the end of August, the Council of State declared itself incompetent to order that the evacuation system in place be modified or completed. More than 3,500 requests for family reunification have been filed by Afghans in the past two years. “
The urgency for the families was created by the fact that their requests have not been processed for two or three years. We can't just freeze family reunification. We must simplify, amplify, accelerate the processing of these requests
”, pleaded Me Cédric Uzan-Sarano, during the hearing before the Council of State.
