Oqtf

The EU Council adopted the return regulation on 1 October 2026. OQTF, time to leave, detention, re-entry ban, appeals: what changes in France, and from when.

Return hubs enter EU law with the regulation adopted on 1 October 2026. France refuses to open any. What changes, what you risk and how to challenge a removal.

Held in administrative detention in France? The 4-day order, the judge's review, 90 or 210 days at most, your rights in the CRA, the 48-hour appeal and house arrest as an alternative.

A re-entry ban often comes with an OQTF and closes the whole Schengen area to you. Duration, mandatory cases, appeal, lifting the ban, deleting the SIS alert and future visas.

An expired residence permit changes everything the next morning, for work, family benefits and health cover. What still protects you, how to catch up within six months and how to avoid a removal order.

A residence permit refusal runs on a deadline of two months, or one month where a removal order comes with it. How to read the decision, the usual grounds, internal review, the court claim and legal aid.

An OQTF appeal runs on very short deadlines, from one month down to 48 hours. The grounds the prefecture relies on, the 2026 deadlines, how to file, what an appeal suspends and what the judge reviews.

Exceptional leave to remain is the usual route to regularisation, granted case by case. The 2025 circular, the shortage-occupation permit until 31 December 2026, the evidence to gather, the cost and the risk of a removal order.