The French immigration lawyer


french immigration lawyerA French immigration lawyer advises, represents, defends and assists those who need to have their rights recognized. The rights of foreigners are certainly quantitatively limited, but those they possess are fundamental and yet too often ignored, disputed, even flouted. Clients therefore need competent and loyal lawyers whose presence at their side is sometimes obligatory, and in any case most often useful and necessary. The pitfalls of the administration are multiple and judges make decisions with vital consequences according to specific procedures and disparate rules, often obscure and constantly changing.

Immigration law is a field where the lawyer is more than an adviser but a real guide for the client. Indeed, lawyers advise, represent, defend and assist those who need to have their rights recognized. The rights of foreigners are certainly quantitatively limited, but those they possess are fundamental and yet too often ignored, disputed, even flouted.

The pitfalls of the administration are multiple and judges make decisions with vital consequences according to specific procedures and disparate rules, often obscure and constantly changing. Clients therefore need competent and loyal lawyers whose presence at their side is sometimes obligatory, and in any case most often useful and necessary.

A NEED FOR GUIDANCE AND ASSISTANCE

Foreigners increasingly have the need to seek the assistance of a lawyer to assert their rights in France. Recognition of the right to enter French territory, to remain there, to be able to live there with one’s family, to obtain a benefit or to acquire French nationality will often depend on the quality of the advice work.

Indeed, an expert lawyer in foreigners’ law is a professional jurist who will give advice, within the framework of a consultation, on the best steps to take with a particular administration and on the advisability of seizing a court.

Of course, if this is necessary, as in the case for example of an obligation to leave French territory (known as OQTF), the lawyer will draft appeals, sometimes even very numerous (gracious, hierarchical, appeal for excess of power, etc.)

He will endeavour to defend his client’s interests to the best of his ability, by drawing on his expertise in law, his experience of court practices, his knowledge of case law, that is to say the way in which similar cases have been judged before.

But in this very specific area of ​​immigration law, the lawyer has above all an advisory mission, and more and more a genuine support role.

Assist the client, in the whole follow-up of the file, but also a role of guide in the proper sense, namely simply accompanying the foreigner physically, most often in the prefecture but also in many other administrations, to accomplish his multiple steps, a real obstacle course, almost inaccessible for a layman who is not accompanied by efficient support.

A NEED FOR SUPPORT AND EXPERTISE

But this is not a new mission for the lawyer, because his only goal remains that of being as efficient as possible vis-à-vis his client’s expectations.

This advisory role is simply amplified in this specific litigation of foreigners’ rights, where laws, regulations, circulars follow one another and require on the one hand lawyers who must become experts and where the clients, of foreign origin, are still well more vulnerable and lost in the procedural maze than French clients in any other type of litigation.

J2M Law Firm is based in Paris, has clients in France and in English speaking countries and he is competent in immigration law as well as in corporate law and tax law.

J2M concentrates on French Business Law and French Immigration Law for English speaking professionals. Dealing with professionals settling in France, J2M also providence assistance in the fields of Corporate law and Taw law.

Our Law firm helps you put together your application for a residence permit, offers support to prepare the filing of your application through a fully electronic procedure.

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