Visas and entry into France
Short-stay visas, long-stay visas, visa refusals and procedures relating to entry and residence in France before the French consular authorities.
Attorney at the Paris Bar
Immigration law
The Firm assists foreign nationals with their applications and litigation, at every stage of their journey in France.
- Paris Bar
- Immigration & asylum law
- French · English · German
The Firm
The Firm, founded by Maître Mathilde Silvestre, assists individuals, companies, non-profit organisations and institutions with their immigration law matters: applications for visas, residence permits and work permits, appeals against decisions of consulates and prefectures, regularisation, naturalisation, compensation claims…
It draws on a network of partner lawyers to provide comprehensive support and a joined-up approach to complex situations, particularly in criminal law, employment law, family law, tax law and business law.
Founding attorney
Mathilde Silvestre
A graduate of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (« Juriste Européen » programme), King's College London and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Maître Mathilde Silvestre was sworn in on 24 January 2024. She has since practised exclusively in human rights and asylum law.
After working with the organisations Sherpa and ECCHR, at the Paris Administrative Court of Appeal and at a Paris law firm practising immigration law, she chose to dedicate her practice to this field.
She offers a humane and pragmatic approach, covering both advice and litigation, to support foreign nationals in France in their procedures and their plans.
A committed lawyer, Maître Mathilde Silvestre has also trained alongside several non-profit organisations, through her professional and volunteer experience in human rights and immigration law. This experience gives her a better understanding of the actors involved in this field, lets her work alongside them, and has shaped an approach to immigration law that is both critical and humane.
Immigration law
Practice areas
The Firm assists foreign nationals at every stage of their journey in France, in both advisory work and litigation.
Residence in France
First application, renewal and change of status: visitor, student, employee, job search and business creation, entrepreneur, liberal profession, private and family life; « Talent » permits: EU Blue Card, qualified employee, medical and pharmacy professions, researcher, project holder, corporate officer, artistic profession and person of national or international renown.
International and professional mobility
Work permit applications, prior opinions and procedures relating to professional mobility.
Asylum law
Preparation for and support at the OFPRA interview, appeals before the National Court of Asylum (CNDA), appeals against the refusal of material reception conditions (CMA).
Refusal of residence and removal
Appeals against refusals of residence permits, refusals to issue a receipt (récépissé), orders to leave French territory (OQTF), bans on returning to French territory (IRTF), administrative house arrest orders and expulsion measures, in particular on public-order grounds, before the prefectures and the administrative courts.
Support before the residence permit refusal commissions and the expulsion commissions (COMEX).
Applications for the withdrawal and repeal of unfavourable administrative decisions.
Deletion of records from the police database (TAJ) and from bulletin n°2 of the criminal record.
French nationality
Naturalisation, declarations of nationality, transcription of civil status records, applications for a certificate of French nationality (CNF), and difficulties encountered in procedures for acquiring French nationality.
Family
Family reunification (regroupement familial), family reunification for beneficiaries of international protection (réunification familiale), residence of family members and matters relating to relatives' right of residence.
Compensation claims
Claims for compensation for harm suffered as a result of an unlawful action or failure to act by the French administration (loss of income, loss of employment, loss of benefits, non-material harm caused by a long separation…).
Other requests
If your situation does not exactly match the areas described above, you can contact us so that we can check whether we are able to assist you.
French — English — German
Consultations and correspondence in all three languages.
Contact
Have a question or need support?
For a first contact, please get in touch by email, briefly describing your situation and your request.
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You can also book an appointment directly online: Book a consultation
- Address
- 1 bis rue de Bretonvilliers, 75004 Paris
- Phone
- +33 7 66 57 28 20
- Hours
- Monday to Friday, 10 am – 7 pm
- [email protected]
- Appointments
- consultation.avocat.fr
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