Britons were issued nearly 100,000 residence permits by France in 2021 because of Brexit, we learned on Monday, on the sidelines of the publication of annual immigration figures. Notably, 99,644 British nationals obtained a residence permit last year, when they must hold one to legally reside in France from October 1, 2021, against the backdrop of Brexit.

These are still “provisional” data, underscores the Ministry of the Interior on the occasion of this publication of immigration statistics for the rest of the certainty, because “given the time between the filing of the application and the issuance of the permit, some permits issued years are not yet registered in the National Management Database for Residence Permits”.

As a comparison, the administration has indicated the final number of residence permits granted to Britons in 2020: 7,686, ie thirteen times less. “The requirement of a specific residence permit for the British and their dependents on 1 October 2021 has generated an unprecedented influx of requests”, the French Interior Ministry underlined in January, issuing the title known as “Brexit”. justified the explosion. , return agreement”.