While waiting for their visas, young foreign students challenge the collective blocking the offices in Mayotte prefecture.
Five young foreign students waiting for visas address the Mayotte citizens’ collective, which has blocked the prefecture’s immigration office since October 14.
They want the latter to allow them to continue their administrative procedures to study in France.
There were many of them in the beginning, today there are only five waiting for a visa to leave Mayotte to continue their higher studies.
After several months or years of administrative procedures, certain young people, most of them from the Comoros, could not see the end of the tunnel, so they decided to stop all the procedures started. And others, like Noura Ahmed, still want to believe it.
Since obtaining her Professional Baccalaureate in Community Service and Community Life at Kahani high school in 2019, the young girl, then in an irregular situation, has been making appointments at the prefecture to obtain a residence permit. What she gets in 2021.
Since then, she has continued to train, practice and volunteer in an association without ever losing sight of her goal, a visa to leave Mayotte.
Recently, together with his comrades, they ended up seeing the situation unblock little by little, but it was without counting on the movement of the collective of citizens from Mayotte who have been demonstrating in front of the immigration service in Mamoudzou since October 14. make it unavailable.
A blockade occurred after the attack on motorists by armed and hooded criminals. For the collective, it is undoubtedly the work of foreign people from the Comoros.
“We are also against what is happening in Mayotte … the violence, crime, we are not all the same. We want to be able to go and study and to get there we need the collective to hear our warning cries to resume our administrative procedures.”
Noura Ahmed, student of Comorian origin
Noura Ahmed was to return to school in BTS accounting since September 4 in Nantes. Even today, she believes it is still possible to go there.
I called the school, explained my situation and they asked me to contact them again as soon as I got my visa.
Noura Ahmed, student of Comorian origin
Born in Mayotte, Noura left to live in the Comoros at the age of 9 with her mother before returning several years later, she says. The young girl lives in Chirongui in the south of the island with her father, in a legal situation.
Every year several high school graduates are stuck in Mayotte due to a lack of French papers.