Step 1
Go to the OFII headquarters. The advisor will request an interpreter for facilitating the dialogue.
Not sure if you can benefit from this procedure?
Foreigners who wish to return to their country of origin can request the assistance of the French Office for Immigration and Integration.
The OFII organises the return to the home country of the applicant (travel fees, financial support, administrative assistance for travel preparations).
In order to benefit from the programme, you should visit the OFII headquarters. An advisor will assist you every step of the procedure such as obtaining travel documents. The Office also pays your travels fees from France to your country of origin.
To be eligible for the assistance with return, you must:
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Go to the OFII headquarters. The advisor will request an interpreter for facilitating the dialogue.
Provide your passport to the advisor. If you do not have a passport, the advisor will help you obtain a travel document.
The OFII will pay for your plane ticket as well as your transportation fees from your place of residence in France to the airport.
Receive your summon from the advisor and check your baggage allowance. You must not exceed your baggage allowance.
On the day of your departure, an advisor will welcome you at the airport and accompany you as far as the departure lounge.
Once you arrive in your home country, you be given a single payment of a financial support.
N.B: The amount of the financial support varies depending on your country of origin. You can return to the region of your choice within your country.
In addition to financing your voluntary return or independently from it, the OFII is able to provide reinsertion support that can be divided into three levels depending of the applicant’s needs: social reinsertion, employment and professional training and business creation. This programme is reserved for citizens of 28 countries, to applicants who fulfil the selection conditions within their countries of origin, to students or young professionals who hold a residence permit.
The assistance with reinsertion is destined for:
To benefit from the assistance with return and reinsertion and to find out more about it, you can contact an advisor at the OFII headquarters.
More information can be found on www.retourvolontaire.fr
Click here to find the nearest OFII headquarters to your place of residence.
In addition to financing your voluntary return or independently from it, the OFII is able to provide reinsertion support that can be divided into three levels depending of the applicant’s needs:
Once he returns to his country of origin, the OFII can help the applicant and his family settle by: paying the rent, buying the furniture and home appliances, paying for medical care and children’s school registration fees. Citizens of certain countries such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Sri Lanka, can also be provided with support at the airport, legal aid as well as psychological follow-up.
For this level of assistance, the OFII can help the applicant in his search for employment and partially finance his professional training or their salary for one year.
Level 3 offers financial support and assistance in creating a business. The business creation must be validated by the selection committee in order be eligible for this assistance level.
To benefit from the assistance with return and reinsertion and to find out more about it, you can contact an advisor at the OFII headquarters.
More information can be found on www.retourvolontaire.fr
Click here to find the nearest OFII headquarters to your place of residence.