Specific procedures

Classified as an accelerated procedure by the GUDA

During your appointment with the GUDA, you are informed of the procedure applicable to the examination of your asylum application.

Your application is automatically classified as an accelerated procedure, by the GUDA, for the following 2 scenarios:

• When you are a national of a country considered as a safe country of origin ;

• When you have carried out an initial asylum application, which was definitively rejected and you are requesting it to be reexamined.

Furthermore, your application can be classified as an accelerated procedure by the dedicated asylum application service center for the following scenarios :

• If you refuse to get your fingerprints taken ;

• If you try to mislead the authorities by presenting false documents, providing false indications or hiding certain information ;

• If you have presented several applications under different identities ;

• If you were slow to apply for asylum after you arrived in France (more than 90 days) ;

• If you only apply for asylum in order to thwart an order of removal ;

• If your presence represents a serious threat to public order, public safety or the safety of the Government.

Ofpra can reclassify your application as a normal procedure during its examination if it believes it necessary in light of your application or your specific situation. If your application is classified as an accelerated procedure, this has no effect on the examination of your application by Ofpra.

Ofpra’s processing timeframes

Ofpra tries to make a decision as soon as possible.

In case it takes longer than 6 months, a letter will be sent to you fifteen days before the expiration of this time period. If you requested it, you can also be informed of the expected timeframe in which a decision will be made regarding your application and the reasons justifying the absence of a decision during this 6-month period.

Appealing the decision

Whether your application was classified as a normal or accelerated procedure, you have the possibility of disputing Ofpra’s decision by submitting an appeal to the National Court of Asylum (CNDA) within one month’s time.

You have the right to stay in France until the CNDA’s decision (on the day that it is read), unless your application was classified as an accelerated procedure for the following reasons :

• You are a national from a country that is considered as a safe country of origin ;

• You have submitted a request for your application to be reexamined, which was accepted ;

• Ofpra made a final decision ;

• You were placed in detention ;

• You presence represents a serious threat to public order, public safety or the safety of the Government.