Immigration Law: Gérald Darmanin promises to “double” the regularization of undocumented workers

2023-12-20 08:39:21

Is Gérald Darmanin dangling compensation before a potential tightening of the law? The Minister of the Interior affirmed Tuesday evening that if the Immigration bill was adopted, it would make it possible to “double” the number of regularizations of undocumented workers, i.e. between 7,000 and “10,000” additional titles “each year “.

“With this Immigration law, we are going to double the number of regularizations of foreigners who work. 10,000 additional foreign workers will be regularized each year,” he wrote on the social network which deputies and senators agreed in a joint committee.

Regularization of workers in “tensive” professions

This announced doubling would be obtained due to the agreement reached on the measure concerning the regularization of workers in so-called “tensioned” professions, that is to say in labor shortage, one of the measures highlights of the government’s initial bill. Between 7,000 and 10,000 people could obtain a title through this means, according to the executive.

“We are doubling the number of regularizations because this complements” the so-called “Valls” circular of 2012, which currently serves as a regulatory framework for the regularization of undocumented immigrants, for all reasons (families, work, etc.) and which “will remain in force.” force,” explained the Ministry of the Interior.

In 2022, some 10,000 people have obtained regularization for work through this circular which governs “exceptional admissions to stay”, between 6,000 and 8,000 in previous years. “If the Senate and the National Assembly vote (the text), there will be for the first time in the history of the Republic in the law a legislative measure of regularization as desired by the government,” declared before the Senate Gérald Darmanin, in reference to the title “jobs in tension”.