French Interior Minister Manuel Valls continues to work on his promise to return naturalisation to its traditional place as a means for integration into the French Republic.
The Minister’s second set of guidelines try to undo the damage done in the last years of the previous government, which decentralised the procedure and instructed prefects to restrict their practice. The new guidelines address several points raised by MPG and its French MIPEX partner, France Terre d’Asile, working together to identify the legal and administrative obstacles to naturalisation and propose solutions for France – see their reaction to new guidelines here.
A EU-funded handbook has been designed specifically for French policymakers and practitioners, both in French and English. A targeted MIPEX report, funded by the French Embassy in the US, detailed the recent changes in French naturalisation policies, their impacts on naturalisation and integration, and the project’s recommendations for reforming French immigration policy.
