Visa applications
You can apply for a visa for a variety of reasons (tourist, professional, study or family). In each case, a rigorous administrative procedure with strict deadlines must be followed.
I can advise you on how to anticipate difficulties and avoid “pitfalls” in preparing visa application formalities, including the more complex and little-known ones such as applying for a study visa via the “Campus France” organization.
I also handle appeals before the Commission de recours contre les refus de visa (Visa Refusal Appeals Board) and the relevant administrative courts.
Right of residence and nationality
In the event of illegal residence (Obligation de quitter le territoire français) or application for regularization (Demande d’asile ou de titre de séjour), there is a frequent risk of being notified of expulsion from French territory.
In this situation, I defend your interests before the relevant administrative courts, including for all issues relating to binational couples (visa applications and residence permits for private and family life). In the event of an abusive eviction posing an imminent risk of irreparable damage, I can intervene as a matter of urgency to request the necessary provisional and protective measures before the European Court of Human Rights. When the conditions are met, I also submit an application to the European Court of Human Rights for breach of the European Convention on Human Rights.
I can also help you put together your nationality application file and assist you with nationality litigation.
Asylum application
Asylum is the protection granted by a state to a foreigner who is or risks being persecuted in his or her own country. It corresponds to refugee status, subsidiary protection and temporary protection. Recognized by the 1951 Geneva Convention, refugee status provides protection for anyone outside their country of nationality or habitual residence, because of persecution or fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion.
Subsidiary protection is granted to foreign nationals who do not meet the conditions for refugee status, and who can prove that they are exposed to one of the following risks in their own country:
- death penalty or execution ;
- torture, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment ;
- a serious and individual threat to life or person as a result of violence which may extend to persons regardless of their personal situation, and which results from a situation of internal or international armed conflict.
Temporary protection concerns non-European foreigners who flee their country or region of origin en masse and are unable to return:
- due to armed conflict or violence,
- or because they are victims of serious and repeated human rights violations.
This exceptional and temporary scheme is authorized by a decision of the Council of the European Union (EU), which defines the beneficiaries and the date of entry into force. It is decided for a period of one year and can be extended for a maximum of 2 years. The Council of the European Union can put an end to it at any time if the situation in the country of origin allows for the safe and sustainable return of displaced persons.
In all these situations, I assist asylum seekers with their administrative procedures and with any litigation they may be faced with, particularly in the case of appeals to the Administrative Court and the National Court of Asylum.
In the event of house arrest or a situation on French territory where the conditions are contrary to the prohibition on inhuman and degrading treatment, I can intervene as a matter of urgency by lodging an application with the European Court of Human Rights to request the necessary provisional and protective measures. If necessary, I submit an application to the European Court of Human Rights in the event of a violation of the European Convention on Human Rights (right to life, human dignity, right to private and family life, etc.).
