His title had been approved for eight months, but he could not obtain it: this Moroccan man gets the prefecture convicted

Born in 1996 in Temsia, Morocco, the young man had until then held a residence permit bearing the designation “job-seeking and business-creation,” valid until February 12, 2026.

Yet his situation appeared to have been settled well before that deadline. On December 10, 2025, the administration approved his application to change status and issue a permit bearing the designation “Talent Passport (family).”

The card was to be valid from November 23, 2025, to November 22, 2026. The Moroccan man was then informed that it was being produced.

But the months passed without the document being handed over to him. Despite several follow-ups with the services of the Hauts-de-Seine prefecture, he received no appointment allowing him to come and physically collect his card.

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This wait eventually caused him another very concrete problem. The Moroccan man explained that he needed his residence permit to complete the procedure for exchanging his driving license.

He told the court that he had to be in possession of the document before August 10, 2026, otherwise his exchange application risked being closed without further action. Yet there was still no text message from the prefecture.

On August 3, he therefore urgently petitioned the Cergy-Pontoise administrative court. He requested an appointment to collect his “Talent Passport (family),” subject to a penalty of 50 euros per day of delay.

More than eight months to hand over a permit that had already been approved

In her order of August 21, 2026, the emergency proceedings judge noted that the application for the permit had been approved as early as December 10, 2025, more than eight months earlier.

Above all, she noted that, despite the Moroccan national’s various follow-ups, nothing showed that an appointment had ultimately been sent to him to collect his card.

The court considered that he had to be able to physically possess his permit in order to prove the regularity of his stay in France and complete his administrative procedures, particularly those concerning his driving license.

The court expressly described the period elapsed since the prefecture’s favorable decision as “abnormally long.”

The situation was all the more unusual because the permit issued was valid for only one year. When the judge intervened, on August 21, this card, which was supposed to remain valid until November 22, 2026, had already spent more than eight months blocked and unavailable for collection.

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The court ultimately ordered the prefect of Hauts-de-Seine to summon the Moroccan man to the prefecture and hand over his residence permit within ten days following notification of the order.

However, the judge did not impose the 50-euro-per-day penalty requested by the Moroccan man, considering it unnecessary at this stage.

The State will, however, have to pay him 1,200 euros for legal costs. The decision comes as other Moroccans have recently had to take legal action over prefecture blockages to obtain a simple appointment or a document enabling them to prove their lawful stay.