In 2009 the then budget minister Éric Woerth admitted French investigators had the names of 3,000 suspected tax fraudsters who held non-declared bank accounts in Switzerland and urged them to "regularise" their tax situation or face investigation.
A grace period for them to regularise their status in what was once their country comes to an end on 8 April.
One solution is to try and regularise the houses by giving them legal status, but the cost of doing so, which can also include providing amenities, falls to the owner, not the builder, and again will run into tens of thousands of euros for each one.
According to the spokesperson: "They should support their workers with insecure immigration status, helping them to apply to regularise their status – they have a duty to do this as they reap so much profit from these vulnerable, exploited workers".
Last month, Khartoum told South Sudanese living in the north - estimated to number about 500,000 - to either regularise their residency papers or leave the country, so thousands of them began their journey home.
Undocumented fishermen working on Irish trawlers and their boat owners have been given a final chance to regularise their position this month as the Irish government extended the deadline for them to apply for a new permit scheme amid fears that take-up has been too low.
On the face of it, Israel should have gratefully embraced a deal that would legitimise their hold over the bulk of historic Palestine, regularise their relations with all the Arab states, and at least limit any future claims on them by Palestinians.
I ask her if she can perhaps try and regularise her immigration status.
Bananas Bananas are rich in potassium, which helps regularise or quell blood pressure levels.
