To prevent his wife and daughter from coming from Morocco, the prefecture revives a 2015 case

Born in 1977, the Moroccan national entered France legally on 9 April 2010 with a long-stay visa for the “spouse of a French national.” After several temporary residence permits, he obtained a resident card starting in October 2013.

He divorced his first wife in 2019, then remarried in Morocco on 28 December 2020 to a Moroccan woman. Their daughter was also born in Morocco, on 23 March 2023.

The Moroccan national then initiated a family reunification procedure to enable his wife and their child to join him in France.

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But on 27 June 2024, the prefect of Côte-d’Or rejected his application. To justify its refusal, the administration cited a conviction handed down on 22 November 2017.

The Moroccan national had been sentenced to three months in prison, suspended, for violence resulting in incapacity not exceeding eight days, committed against his former partner. The events had taken place precisely on 10 November 2015.

An old and isolated case

The prefecture had concluded from this that the Moroccan national did not respect the essential principles governing family life in France, one of the conditions examined when a foreign national wishes to bring their family to France.

The Dijon Administrative Court does not share this assessment. In its judgment of 1 July 2026, it noted that the acts had been committed only on 10 November 2015, that they had remained isolated, and that they were old when the prefecture made its decision.

For the judges, this conviction was therefore not sufficient, on its own, to consider that the Moroccan national no longer respected the essential principles governing family life in France.

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The refusal of family reunification is annulled on the grounds of an error of assessment. The wife and daughter are not, however, automatically authorized to enter France: the court orders the prefect of Côte-d’Or to reconsider the case within three months.

The State must also pay the Moroccan national 1000 euros toward his legal costs.