The Impossible Organization Chart of Asylum in France The Development of « Standby Asylum » Olivier BRACHET The growing complexity of French asylum admission procedures, due to the diversity of recenty adopted laws, causes perplexity or even bewilderment of civil servants expected to apply them and, all the more so, of asylum seekers. It is moreover due to the unceasing implementations of regulations and practises devoped by the relevant administrative organizations while asylum applications are lengthily examined; both regulations and practises being controlled by the Department of the Interior. As a result, clandestine asylum tends to increase, meaning that more and more people who are not allowed to stay on the French territory are in fact tolerated to do so. That kind of « standby asylum » may be considered as an administrative lack, but may also be viewed as a implicit and parallel protective system, while, in the meantime, a growing number of persons seeking protection cannot get any recognition from the Genova Convention.