Overview
- Larrivé submitted his resignation to the Élysée on October 16, roughly a month after President Emmanuel Macron appointed him on September 5 to chair the OFII for a three-year term.
- In his letter, he wrote that no break with the legal and diplomatic constraints that prevent France from reducing immigration will be decided.
- He said the decision followed his listening to Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu’s general policy statement and his review of the government’s finance bill.
- He criticized the lack of plans to drastically lower visa issuances and to significantly increase expulsions, warning of what he called a worsening migratory chaos.
- In a radio interview, he argued the 2026 budget pours funds into State medical aid and asylum accommodation without structural reform, and his departure leaves the OFII leadership vacant as pressure grows on the government’s migration stance.