Her French son has supported her for years, but France refuses his mother’s visa
A Moroccan woman wanted to join her French son in France. Despite documents showing, in particular, that he had provided her with financial support for years, her long-stay visa was refused. The courts have just annulled that decision and ordered a new review of her application.
The Moroccan national had applied at the French consulate in Rabat for a long-stay visa as a dependent ascendant of a French national. On March 1, 2024, the consular authorities rejected her application.
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The Moroccan woman challenged this refusal before the Appeals Commission against decisions refusing entry visas to France. The commission did not respond. Its silence gave rise, on July 6, 2024, to a new implicit rejection decision, which replaced the consulate’s decision.
The authorities considered that the information provided to justify the purpose and conditions of the intended stay was incomplete and/or unreliable.
Pensions paid for years
The file nevertheless contained numerous documents. In particular, the Moroccan woman had provided her passport and birth certificate, travel insurance, her husband’s death certificate, as well as her French son’s birth certificate and national identity card.
She had also submitted her son’s employment contract, three of his payslips, and income declarations covering the years 2009 to 2022, showing that alimony had been paid to his mother.
In its ruling of July 10, 2026, the Nantes Administrative Court found that no element in the file established that the information provided by the Moroccan woman was unreliable or that her application was incomplete.
The judges also noted that the Minister of the Interior had submitted no defense brief. The court therefore held that the Appeals Commission had made an error of assessment by refusing the visa on the grounds that the information provided was incomplete or unreliable.
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The implicit decision of July 6, 2024, was annulled. However, the courts did not directly issue the visa to the Moroccan mother: they ordered the Minister of the Interior to have her application re-examined by the Appeals Commission within two months. The State must also pay her 1,200 euros in legal costs.
