Wrongly, and unhonestly this circular has been presented by the medias as the way to regularise the 'sans papiers'. At 14th July, Chirac even attacked the Jospin government saying that the government wants to regularise ALL 'sans papiers'. There is any moratory on deportations. According to the circular, the illegal immigrants are asked to present a written demand, with their address, to the police until 1st of November to know if they can or can not be regularised.
Nobody knows exactly who can enter in the criterias.
Some of them certainly not. In spite of this, thousends and thousends ask for papers. After a period of hope, know the anger is growing, more and more people denounce the hypocrisie of this mesures. There was a police attack on demostrators inside the a townhall in Paris, and trials against a 'sans papiers' and two French supporters.