France Considers Fast-Tracking Citizenship for COVID-19 Frontline Workers

"I am thinking about how to accelerate the acquisition of French nationality for foreign workers who are engaged in a request procedure validated by the prefects and who were on the front line during the lockdown period: garbage collectors, cashiers, childcare workers, hospital staff... They have shown their collective attachment to the nation by allowing it to continue to function," the minister said in an interview with the Journal Du Dimanche.

To do this, she wants to continue the action taken to accelerate the OFPRA procedure, which already has 200 additional employees to better process the files. "With my cabinet, I will meet with OFPRA every week to take stock," she said.

Until now, the response time for asylum seekers has been around two years.