December 2024: Customs form required again - sometimes


Leaving via Marrakech airport you can get the passport exit stamp without informing anyone you've left your vehicle in the country. But it's random. Early Dec 2024 one of us passed through; we two at other counters got sent right back, having to negotiate our way the wrong way through various security controls. So much of the info in posts below 2020/2 about offices etc is valid again.

UPDATE: My own experience below was early Dec '24. But see this post post mid Dec: the process has been simplified. The loop into Arrivals Customs office in the map below may be redundant.

• Go to the right corner to a service entrance leading into the Arrivals area. There will be a bloke and small xray. Explain 'fiche douane vehicule' or similar.
• Once xrayed, turn right and right by the Arrivals hall exit big luggage xrays to the public area you will see 3 Douane offices. Go in, show your white TVIP card and they will print off an A4 authorisation form. No need to show vehicle ownership doc.
• Go back out into the main public arrivals hall via a small service door and now proceed through the various departure controls as normal: boarding pass and passport hand scan > hand luggage xray > 2 Douaniers doing nothing.
• Right after them, as you enter the passport stamp hall queue, first go to 'Office 2' on the right. More Douaniers log your details off white card and A4 form. Or they give you a form to complete.
• Now proceed to police passport stamp, handing over your A4 form.
• After police stamp booths and before you go up the stairs to Duty Free/Departure, there is another exit stamp check.



You have 180 days to retrieve the vehicle and leave Morocco.
Do not lose your small white TVIP card for when you come back.
When you fly back maybe months later the cop at immigration may remind you you have a vehicle in Morocco.

By then your Moroccan insurance (if needed) will have run out.
See later posts on how to reinsure (in Marrakech) without having to go back to a port.