Immigration, Édouard Philippe
Labour immigration and residence permits: Immigration halved, quotas, family reunification suspended
Direction of change: creation of a scheme, compared with current law.
The lever. Conditions for issuing residence permits, labour immigration, regularisations, quotas voted by Parliament. Direction rule: ↑ more open labour immigration.
« Un objectif clair : diviser par deux l’immigration dans notre pays. […] Suspendre le regroupement familial pour la durée du quinquennat. Mettre en place une politique de quotas migratoires permettant de choisir notre immigration économique. »1Translation by the editorsA clear objective: halve immigration in our country. […] Suspend family reunification for the duration of the five-year term. Put in place a policy of migration quotas allowing us to choose our economic immigration.
Words of Édouard Philippe, Site de campagne « Avec Édouard 2027 », priorité « Pour une France plus sûre » (page non datée, consultée le 14 octobre 2026), 14 October 2026. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme.
No programme released. Positions taken from public statements, words of associates or documents of the candidate’s party, each dated and sourced; last recorded on 18 October 2026.
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Current law, sources and limits of the cost schedule
Current law. Act no. 2024-42 of 26 January 2024: exceptional admission to residence for foreign nationals working in a shortage occupation (CESEDA, art. L. 435-4). It requires three years of residence and 12 months of work out of 24, and the scheme is open until 31 December 2026. In 2025, 384,230 first residence permits were issued (+11%), of which 51,190 for economic reasons (-13%), and 28,610 foreign nationals were regularised (-10%).
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Limits. A static costing makes no sense: the budgetary effect runs through employment, contributions and benefits, that is, through dynamic effects. Statistics diverge: about 377,000 first permits according to the ministry's note, 384,230 according to AFP (scope with or without British nationals). Expiry date of 31 December 2026 read in the instruction of 5 February 2024: without an extension (not searched for), the « métiers en tension » (shortage occupations) scheme expires before 2027, which changes the reference law in 2032.
- AFP via Le Petit Journal, « Immigration : plus de titres de séjour et moins de régularisations en France en 2025 » (chiffres du ministère de l'Intérieur publiés le 27 janvier 2026), 2026-01-27: « Premiers titres 2025 : 384 230 (376 364 hors Britanniques), +11 % ; motif économique : 51 190, -13 % ; régularisations : 28 610, -10 % »
- Instruction du 5 février 2024 relative à l'admission exceptionnelle au séjour par le travail dans les métiers en tension (texte reproduit par le GISTI, page 2), 2024-02-05: « La présente instruction a pour objet de présenter les orientations générales pour la mise en ceuvre du nouvel article L. 435-4 du CESEDA. Ces dispositions législatives, applicables jusqu'au 31 décembre 2026, ouvrent une voie d'accès à la régularisation spécifique […] pourra aboutir à la délivrance d'une carte de séjour temporaire portant la mention « travailleur temporaire » ou « salarié » d'une durée d'un an »
How to read these amounts. These are static costs and revenues, with no feedback effect, over a full year: nothing on growth, employment or the revenue that economic activity would gain or lose. A higher net cost does not on its own make a worse policy, nor net savings a better one: each programme rests on an economic model (demand-led stimulus, lower compulsory levies, consolidation of the public accounts…) that the cost schedule does not settle. GDP itself measures a volume of activity, not well-being or the usefulness of what is produced. Economic models and feedback effects.
- Site de campagne « Avec Édouard 2027 », priorité « Pour une France plus sûre » (page non datée, consultée le 14 octobre 2026), 14 October 2026. Words of Édouard Philippe. Position taken from public statements, not from a written programme. Read the source (Site de campagne « Avec Édouard 2027 », priorité « Pour une France plus sûre » (page non datée, consultée le 14 octobre 2026)).
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