Posted on 12/23/2020 6:10:09 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Hundreds of immigrants in France working on the coronavirus frontline have had their service to the country recognised with fast-track citizenship.
The interior ministry invited residents helping with efforts against Covid-19 to apply for accelerated naturalisation.
More than 700 have already been granted citizenship or are in the final stages of receiving it.
"Health professionals, cleaning ladies, childcare workers, checkout staff: They all proved their commitment to the nation, and it is now the turn of the republic to take a step towards them," the office of Marlene Schiappa, junior minister for citizenship, said on Tuesday.
Normally a successful applicant must have been resident in France for five years with a stable income and demonstrated integration into French society.
But the government has said frontline Covid workers must only live in France for two years to be eligible for citizenship in recognition of their "great services rendered".
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France imported health workers, we imported lying, cheating tech workers from India. Sounds fair.
If our Indian tech workers learn of this, they’ll be bitching even louder about their “backlog.”
Maybe we can send our Indian tech workers to France?
And we brought them in before we brought in the interpreters who risked their lives helping our military, to whom we promised immigration and citizenship.
Vive la France! At least they have done this right!
We were actually supposed to import American-certified medical personnel from the Philippines for the duration of the coronavirus pandemic to help out. Modi got involved and we ended up importing “essential” Indian H1B tech scumbags instead.
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