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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-16

The absence of a lawyer or a representative of an association does not prevent the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons from conducting an interview with the applicant.Wi…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-14

During the personal interview, each adult asylum seeker is heard individually, without the presence of family members. The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons may hear a…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-13

The asylum seeker introduces himself and answers in person the questions put to him by the agent of the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons during the personal interview…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-15

…ed on gender identity or sexual orientation. The conditions for authorising associations and the procedures for approving their representatives by the French Office for the Protection of Refugees and…

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French Code governing the entry and residence of foreign nationals and the right of asylumIn force
Subsection 6: Personal interview

Article L531-12

The French Office for the Protection of Refugees and Stateless Persons will summon the asylum seeker to a personal interview by any means guaranteeing confidentiality and personal receipt of this summ…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-1

When a person is unable to look after his own interests due to a medically certified impairment of either his mental faculties or his physical faculties such as to prevent him from expressing his wish…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-7

The person authorised to represent the protected person may, unless the judge decides otherwise, carry out the acts mentioned in the first paragraph of Article 427.

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-4

The person in respect of whom authorisation is sought shall be heard or called in accordance with the procedures laid down in the first paragraph of Article 432. However, the judge may, by specially r…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-11

…person in respect of whom family habilitation has been issued, it is terminated:1° By the person concerned being placed under legal protection, curatorship or guardianship;2° In the event of a final a…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 6: Family habilitation

Article 494-2

Family habilitation may only be ordered by the judge in cases of necessity and when the interests of the person cannot be sufficiently provided for by applying the rules of the ordinary law of represe…

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