France has stringent controls since 2006 (to verify their antecedents, personal data) for Indians (for example) who did not use Refugee routes but obtained residence permit in France but otherwise. This 'Token response' is the result of 11 Sep. 2001, otherwise most likely French operations are either dormant, gone underground, hibernating, in cold storage for the moment, because the persons whom France wanted as Refugees were not checked that thoroughly.

If one belonged to a ‘proxy’ group according to French calculations, all he/she had to do was submit a used stinky ‘toilet paper’ as an Identity Card and French accepted it. (proxy group = anti India, separatists, terrorists from across the border and their business partners in Refugee, People Smuggling business)

For example if a person entered France from UAE (place his/her agent bought a visa for him/her in black market) and in his/her application for asylum wrote ‘I was tortured, persecuted in India’, the person was honored, rewarded and given Refugee Permit with lots of money.

But if an Indian who entered France from India directly and complained of real, verifiable ‘horrible life experiences’ in India, France refused him/her any help.

Through Refugee business , anti-India elements (in France as well) had money pouring through the roof-and which was used for insurgency, separatist movements in India.
(What was going on......?