You are a foreigner in France and your personal and family interests are established in France and you want to obtain a residence permit based on personal and family ties in France? The MALEKIAN law firm can assist you in preparing your request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties or in contesting the rejection of your residence permit request with the administration or before the competent court.
What is a request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties?
A foreign national who is a parent or grandparent of a French citizen may obtain a residence permit on this ground if certain conditions are met. However, in order to continue living in France regularly from the age of majority, he or she must have a residence permit.
What are the conditions to be met for a request for a temporary residence permit based on personal and family ties?
- The foreigner’s private and family interests must be centered in France. No equivalent should be found in the country of origin or return.
- The implementation of an expulsion would result in a disproportionate interference with his or her private and family life.
- The foreigner must justify the seniority, intensity, and stability of his or her ties, his or her living conditions, his or her integration into French society, and the nature of his or her ties with the family remaining in the country of origin.
What are the reasons for refusal of a request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties?
- The prefecture may refuse the request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties if one or more of the specific conditions (above) necessary according to his or her situation are not met.
- Non-authenticity of the civil status document produced by the foreigner (e.g. errors or omissions on the document or lack of mandatory information, etc.).
- Threat to public order (e.g. in case of conviction in France).
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How to challenge a refusal of a request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties?
The appeal against the refusal of a request for a residence permit based on personal and family ties can be made at two levels. An administrative appeal and/or a judicial appeal before the competent administrative court.
