150,000. This is the number of foreign users who should have been welcomed by the Paris police headquarters - mainly for procedures related to the right of residence - during confinement and until its reopening on June 15. A figure not surprising for who used to pass on the Ile de la Cité, one of the six centers of the capital, where a long tail sometimes snaked in front of the building from the first light of day.
And if the doors are about to reopen, the health crisis and the adaptations it requires do not make up for the backlog. The counters have been spaced out and fitted with plexiglass, the waiting rooms have been refurbished. There is also an end to the reception of walk-in people who, before confinement, represented almost a third of the receptions. From now on, it is imperative to register online. On the Ile de la Cité, it is estimated that all these measures cut reception capacities by three.
Towards more teleprocedures
However, Julien Marion, the director of the general police assures him, this crisis could prove beneficial in the medium and long term in the reception of foreigners. “The strong constraints that we are facing are an opportunity to rethink in depth the reception arrangements and offer a qualitative leap. From June 15, new procedures can be done directly online. The request for a duplicate residence permit or the registration of a change of address will be made, for example, on the Internet. However, you will have to move to retrieve the requested document. Likewise, for a residence permit request, all documents will be collected online before the first meeting. The objective: to limit as much as possible the round trips to tighten them on the essentials. Thus to obtain a residence permit, it usually took three or four passages to the prefecture, now the authorities hope that two "maximum" will be necessary.
"The days when foreign users had to sacrifice half a day or a day to queue up and obtain information are over," insists the senior official. To support this transition, the switchboard is about to be doubled, or even tripled if necessary, the frequently asked questions will be translated into English and Arabic. What about the digital divide and the difficulties of Internet access for certain populations? According to Jean-François Manheule, the deputy director of the administration of foreigners, the feedback shows that digital exchanges are already very frequent and do not generally pose any problem.
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