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How to leave vehicle for <180 days, fly out, then reinsure
To clarify (2024).
According to recent experiences you can pass through airport customs and passport control without informing them you've left your vehicle in the country when entering on that passport, or filling out any forms. They say nothing as it's all based on your small white TVIP card you got when you came in and which lasts 180 days.
So you have 180 days to retrieve the vehicle and leave Morocco.
By then your Moroccan insurance (if needed) will have run out.
See later posts on how to reinsure (in Marrakech).
Fyi, much of the info in posts below 2020/2 about offices etc is now obsolete.
There is virtually nothing to do now other than find a safe place to store your vehicle.
I'm in the airport right now, leaving my vehicle in Morocco.
There is no longer any need for an authorization from customs to leave Morocco. You simply go directly to border control.
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Is there a time limit on how long you can leave it there without penalty (or worse)?
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vehicles can only be in Morocco 180 days per calendar year
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Chris you've been able to leave vehicles anywhere without keys for some time now.
New procedure at Marrakech Airport, turn right enter g the terminal, ask for customs office, go through metal detector and find office marked customs. Takes about 5 minutes and they give you a bit of paper. Present bit of paper at passport control, fly home. Simples
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As per TheWarden above, we did this yesterday. Very simple. No need to leave your keys.
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Is there a waypoint or an arrow on a map for this Douanes airport office to save staggering about in the heat with all my gear?
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Quote:
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Is there a waypoint or an arrow on a map for this Douanes airport office to save staggering about in the heat with all my gear?
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I've tried to find a floor plan online but no luck. I'll try to describe it.
If you enter the main terminal head to the right, follow the departure signs.
Go past the AirMoroc check-in desks and pass a pharmacy.
Continue to the entrances to the departure area (where you put your bags through the x-ray machines). Don't enter. Look to your right, there's a glass door with a "Services" sign above it.
Go through the door, there's an x-ray machine for your bags and yourself. Go through and turn right for maybe 30 metres.
You are now in the baggage reclaim area.
It feels like you're doing a u-turn back to the main terminal. The customs offices are just there, to your right.
Very helpful and easy:-)
They just need your passport, the credit card-sized white import document (TVIP) and vehicle registration.
Exit doors lead back int the main terminal.
You hand over the piece of paper to the Police when they stamp you out on the way through Departures
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Ah, got it. Inside the terminal building.
For some reason I took it to mean some outpost portacabin in the airport complex.
That will be easy then.
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Got a safe place to leave my moto but where are people leaving their cars?
Some others in the same fix may need suggestions.
Does one have to pay?
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Le Relais de Marrakech camping,
31.707179, -7.989949
airport carpark are 2 options.
I'll be out until May and happy to check in on vehicles stored when I'm in the vicinity
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Tony and Jan Johnson said a couple of days ago they were headed south for a while but they have been maintaining a base camp at Le Relais for the past several weeks whilst visiting other parts of the country.
Given the choice between zombie-free Morocco and the nightmare of Spain (which in any case they can't reach), they will likely be in Morocco for some weeks.
I spent a couple of nights in one of the bungalows at Le Relais, it's a lovely site. Just watch out for the peacock scat (polite word for shite).
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Chris you've been able to leave vehicles anywhere without keys for some time now.
New procedure at Marrakech Airport, turn right enter g the terminal, ask for customs office, go through metal detector and find office marked customs. Takes about 5 minutes and they give you a bit of paper. Present bit of paper at passport control, fly home. Simples
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Reactivating a TVIP after Covid shutdown
Am I right in assuming on arrival at RAK, one goes to the same Customs office in the airport to reactivate the TVIP (even if it has been way more than 6 months)?
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Not sure you need to Chris, they waived TVIP requirements for overstays until the end of the year.
But being Morocco and uncertain times, it wouldn't hurt to confirm with customs at the airport when you arrive
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Morocco TVIP
Fyi, on flying in (to repair my bike) I didn’t bother visiting the Customs at the airport and it seems there was no need (to complicate matters unnecessarily).
On leaving from RAK a week later (I was flying back later for the bike) I was sent back from the Immigration Police (the last check before entering the departure lounge) back through scanning to the Customs, as the system recognised I had a vehicle in Mk and I needed a new authorisation form.
That was easily done in an office right behind the Customs inspection desk on the right as you enter the scanning area (and where Customs occasionally stop you and ask about money and stuff).
This was not the harder-to-find Customs office out in the Terminal I used last time and mentioned above (pre-Covid).
With my old 2020 TVIP white card he did me a new authorisation in a couple of minutes but said when I came back (and before the end of 2021) I would have to renew my TVIP white card at Customs in Gueliz (a west Marrakech suburb) where the bike happens to be), prior to riding north for the ferry.
I went back through scanning and immigration where the Police kept the new Customs authorisation (white A4) and stamped me out.
Bottom line: the Customs authorisation to leave a vehicle in Mk needs to be re-issued each time you fly out (makes sense) but only takes a couple of minutes.
But to get your vehicle out of the country before the end of 2021 (or if you have left it here for more than 6 months due to Covid shutdown) you need to renew your TVIP at Customs in town.
Now 2023, post Covid and back to normal, leaving it more than 6 months is probably not a good idea.
The Gueliz office is here, just off Place de la Liberté (Mohamed V)
Added November:
The place linked is correct but the Douanes entrance is down the side street and left again through the big blue gates.
Wait to go into office - explain situation - he takes your small, white TVIP, puts # in the system and prints off an A4 TVIP update with a QR and ending Dec 31 2021, as mentioned earlier with regard to overdue Covid vehicles.
All took about 60 seconds.
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