The first partnership agreement on visas signed between the French Consulate General in Rabat and the National Council of the Order of Physicians (CNOM) on March 25, 2024 to promote mobility between France and Morocco is not well received.
Several Moroccans from Spain are stranded in Morocco due to the difficulty of getting an appointment in the Spanish consulates to obtain a visa. They denounce the existence of a fraudulent network selling appointments.
Moroccan agents stationed at the Tarajal border post would refuse to let Moroccan workers wishing to go to Ceuta pass, demanding that they present a Schengen visa.
The Spanish Interior Minister, Fernando Grande-Marlaska, denounced on Friday in Rabat, where he is on an official visit, the stopovers at Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas airport of flights from Casablanca to Latin American countries, which many passengers use to apply for asylum in Spain.
The trial of several forgers specialized in the manufacture of visas for the Schengen area, recently arrested in the north of the Kingdom, has begun in Tetouan.
The Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched an investigation into allegations of sale of Schengen visas to Moroccan citizens at the Spanish consulate in Nador. Many complaints had been filed.
French President Emmanuel Macron "sacrificed diplomatic relations" between Morocco and his country "on the altar of domestic security". These are the conclusions of a report written by Moroccan and French academics.
The tensions between Morocco and France must be eased to allow the rapid relaunch of bilateral relations between the two countries, analyzes the Omega Center for Economy and Geopolitics think tank.
Moroccans wishing to go to France will no longer have difficulty obtaining a visa. An important announcement was made in this regard by Ambassador Christophe Lecourtier.
Philippe Ghiles, deputy mayor of Gray, vice-president of the community of communes of Val de Gray and candidate in the last legislative elections for the Reconquête party of polemicist Éric Zemmour, finally managed to obtain a visa for a Moroccan woman wishing to pursue her studies in France.
The deputy mayor and vice-president of the Val de Gray Community of Communes, Philippe Ghiles, says he is doing everything in his power to obtain a visa for a Moroccan woman so that she can attend a training course in Franche-Comté.
On the web, many Moroccan Internet users are calling on Morocco to impose a visa on French people wishing to visit the kingdom.