For MRE families considering settling permanently in Morocco, their children’s age can become decisive. After the age of 11 or 12, the transition between school systems may be more difficult, particularly because of differences in languages and curricula.
Returning to live in Morocco after several years in Europe does not necessarily mean immediately finding one’s place again. Now settled in Marrakech after having lived in France, Amina says that she was sometimes regarded as a foreigner in her own country.
A recipient of «bijstand» can continue receiving social assistance while an investigation is being conducted in Morocco. But these payments do not mean that their case has been settled: the municipality may later reclaim all or part of the money.
A tax declaration completed nearly two years after the events weighed heavily in the case of a woman seeking assistance in the Netherlands. She had herself stated that she had been living in Morocco since 2 August 2021.
French 1,500-meter champion in the 1990s, Hassane R. is now subject to an OQTF. Born in Morocco, he arrived in France as a child and was never granted French citizenship. This former elite athlete has just been placed in a detention center following another conviction.
For months, Swiss authorities denounced the slowness of the procedures allowing certain Moroccan nationals to be expelled. In some cases, identification allegedly took more than a year. Then, in the spring, the figures changed abruptly.
Moroccans residing abroad transferred 61.5 billion dirhams to Morocco in the first half of 2026. Over the same period, the country’s energy bill reached 68.6 billion. A gap that did not yet exist a year earlier.
Since July 16, a new rule has applied to real estate transactions in Morocco. Sales, promises of sale, and special powers of attorney must now be drawn up as authentic instruments. Otherwise, the deed may be deemed null and void.
The Netherlands had withdrawn Dutch nationality from two Moroccans born in the country, before ordering their departure to Morocco and barring them from the Schengen Area for twenty years. On June 3, the courts dealt the authorities a double setback.
The lawyer of a Moroccan in the Netherlands used ChatGPT to prepare his appeal before the courts. The problem: a large part of the case-law references produced by the tool were incorrect. The Hague court was not impressed.
Born in France in 1977, he has never lived anywhere else. His brothers and sisters are French, as are his partner and daughter. Yet this Moroccan national can indeed be deported from France, the Conseil d’État has just confirmed.
A mother wanted to spend more than a month in Morocco with her child, but did not have the father’s consent. Asked to intervene before the departure, the Dutch courts ultimately authorized the trip and themselves replaced the missing consent.