Immigration: Georgia industrial boom

While Emmanuel Macron announced that he wanted to reduce the entry of migrants, the Interior Ministry had prepared a plan to stem the tide of asylum applications from Georgia.

Georgia's "anomaly" condemned in May by Christophe Castaner, is it being absorbed? With the plan put in place to combat the clandestine sector, the Minister of the Interior began gathering results. It must be said that from a distance: the number of asylum applications from Georgia has increased massively, by 256% in 2018, third after Afghanistan and Albania. The entry contributed to the general improvement of this approach in our country (+ 22.7%), while it was down in Europe after the 2015 migration crisis.

This supernumerary request engulfs a system that has been invaded by citizens from warring countries who see the procedure pending. And it is expensive. While the application is being reviewed, each adult receives Ada (asylum seeker allowance), € 207 per month for majors isolated with accommodation, social benefits and access to care. File processing lasts an average of twelve months and only 6% of those submitted by Georgia are accepted. For a simple reason: since 2013, Georgia has been considered by France as a safe country of origin (POS), a rule of law in which fundamental freedoms are respected. In line with family immigration which is often this time and motivated by economic and medical reasons, the mafia network benefits from manna. Between 2016 and 2017, the Ministry of the Interior has seen a 140% increase in organized crime from the country.

Since May, France and Georgia have decided to work together to fight a phenomenon that emerged in 2017. At that time, Europe has allowed Georgian citizens to enter the Schengen area without a visa (for travel less than 90 days), due to do in 2010 for Albania. The same cause produced the same effect, this action was taken in the context of restoring economic relations between the European Union and this small country in conflict with Russia (controlling de facto 18% of its territory) which opened the valve of irregular immigration.

In Georgia, television clips broadcast to explain that illegal immigration does not pay
Coup of opportunity: political relations between Georgia and France are very good. Elected last year, President Salomé Zourabichvili, born in Paris, has two citizenship and a French diplomat. Today, he mobilizes his government to defend his fellow citizens, attracted by the erroneous promise of a bright future with a selfie background in front of the Eiffel Tower that is shared on social networks.

Television broadcast clips to explain that illegal immigration does not pay. He did not hesitate to film the forced repatriation of those affected by eviction and repatriation. Georgian liaison officers were present in France and the border and Frontex police departed from the Georgian airport. Georgia wants to do everything to stop this migration flow. At the same time, in France, the French Office for Refugee Protection and Citizenship (OFPRA) is urged to speed up maneuvering and examine the files of these citizens as priority issues so that irregular stays are not lost. for a long time. The aim is to reduce processing time by up to six months. As for the option to remove visa waivers (which were decided at the European level), that was unthinkable for geopolitical reasons. "If we return to this step, the Georgian government will immediately jump in and be replaced by another, pro-Russian," Beauvau said.