In May and June, requests increased by 30 % compared to 2019. An unprecedented increase that the town halls manage to absorb.
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The delay is absorbed. Hardly. Today it takes an average of fifty-five days to obtain an appointment at the town hall in order to request a national identity card or a passport. It’s five times more than a year ago.
Already, in January, the wait was twenty-seven days, before reaching sixty-five days at the end of April. At the origin of this engorgement: the difficult absorption of an unprecedented increase in requests for identity securities. In May and June, these increased by 30 % compared to the same period in 2019. “These are record figures,” said Anne-Gaëlle Baudouin, director of the National Agency for Secure Titles. Faced with which, all the chain links are struggling: the town halls that receive users and record requests; Services in the prefecture that educate them or the national printing. It takes four days today to make an identity card and almost seven days for a passport.
M me Baudouin sees in the rise in demand the conjunction of several factors: “There is a catch -up effect linked to the gradual exit of the pandemic, associated with a seasonal increase linked to The approach of summer and the attraction effect of the new identity card deployed last year, “she lists.
Although a slight drop in demand has been observed in town hall since mid-July, the “emergency plan” set up by the Ministry of the Interior in early May produces its first effects.
Intense electoral year
The government has deployed 400 new biometric data collection devices. These are distributed in the 2,300 town halls authorized to process requests for titles as well as in twenty-nine temporary reception centers, sometimes set up in gymnasiums or houses of associations in cities like Le Havre (Seine- Maritime), Béziers (Hérault), Aulnay-sous-Bois (Seine-Saint-Denis), Marseille or Toulouse.
a Cergy (Val-d’Oise), where the town hall currently does not issue an appointment before October, the mayor, Jean-Paul Jeandon (socialist party), welcomes one of these temporary centers, open to September and endowed with five machines. Mr. Jeandon crossed both vacationers in search of travel documents and young people who make their papers for the first time. “The center gives sixty date by day via our online site, he explains. People are extremely satisfied and agents have much less pressure.”
“There was an adaptation of town halls”, notes Geneviève Cerf-Casau, of the Association of Mayors of France. However, if the State has promised to unlock an envelope of 10 million euros in favor of communities – already endowed with 48 million euros per year for this mission -, “we do not recruit by snapping fingers”, -Is it, stressing that the civil status services come out of an intense electoral year. “They are not expandable as desired,” she insists.
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