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The problem arose for those who were not married. Many of the testimonies of those “divided by Covid” were collected on the platform Love is not tourism, including that of Nicolas Perret, one of the French founders of the group, a 50-year-old engineer who has not seen his Russian partner since the closure.
At the beginning of August, the Undersecretariat of Tourism Jean-Baptiste Lemoyne he had announced the rules for passes that would allow the reunification of lovers. But the procedure that goes through the consulates was cumbersome, with the request to provide various documents about the couple (plane tickets, joint invoices, etc.) sometimes difficult to complete.
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“A jungle of bureaucracy,” he says. Charles-Vincent Very who has been trying for months to get his Mexican girlfriend to come. Another applicant, Fabien Lefebvre, waiting to see his partner trapped in Iran, he denounced the “indifference” of the French Foreign Ministry.
Due to the lack of personnel and other practices to manage, the diplomatic offices have not responded to the numerous requests, even in the face of the objective difficulty of determining the real romantic relationship between two people.
The result is, as the militants of Love is not tourism – That until now very few of the more than two thousand couples divided by the pandemic have managed to get back together.
The battle was carried out through a petition and even with the threat of an appeal to the Council of State. In the coming days, the consulates should finally issue the first passes to allow applicants’ partners to enter France. This was guaranteed by the Undersecretary for European Affairs, Clément Beaune: “The situation must be resolved, I hope.”
