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Morocco immigration cards dropped
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Don't know how the CIN passport stamp (or check) relates to this.
Still needs to be done on the ferry or at the border post on land? I guess we'll find out soon enough. |
English version here.
Entering through Tanger Med end of next week. Will report back. Happy trails, Peter |
Update: The cards will persist at sea ports for a couple more months.
https://www.yabiladi.com/articles/de...maintenue.html I have got the impression it's at airports where the cards really clog things up, less at sea ports. |
Unlike TangerMed when the Balearia and Accona ferries arrive at the same time as the Barcelona ferry. At lunchtime.
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Just come back, normal procedures re entry/exit slips on the ferries, but I hear flying from Marrakech now, exit slips aren't needed.
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came in through Ceuta on the 16th, no entry cards required just hand over passport and log book at first window to get card for vehicle and passport at second window for entry stamp. Took no more than 10 minutes from entering Spanish side to exiting Moroccan side. You do need to turn right at last roundabout before border and drive through the new holding area to pick up a piece of paper to enter Spanish check point though.
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We entered Morocco via Barcelona to Nador on the 6.th September. Usual procedure with CIN and passport stamp.
We left Tangier Med ( to Barcelona ) on the 16.th September. They were very relaxed at the customs/police check. Took passport and all papers to be returned after 5 minutes. They were more interested in the stamp in passport and my logbook of the bike. As this was our first entry into Morocco on bikes I can't compare it to previous procedures, but all was very relaxed and we were waved through police dog check point. |
Hagrid58: was your passport also stamped with a police control number, in the format of several numbers and a couple of alpha characters?
Until now this number has been used with hotel registration forms to track visitors as the tour the country. This is an antiquated system inherited from the French. Movie buffs might remember Edward Fox in the 1979s film ‘The Day of the Jackal’ seducing a lady in order to stay with her to avoid police surveillance. (FWIW: the police control number is not a CIN (Carte d'identité nationale) number as this is only issued to Moroccan citizens.) . |
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One other potential problem is the Police until they catch up with developments! I got stopped exiting taliouine and asked for my documents, the officer had no idea what the new little card was and kept asking for my "cart grisse", as in the old style triplicate paperwork. |
The carte grise is the vehicle registration document. In the UK it's the V5c. The old style triplicate, the newer D16, the new credit card size documents are all temporary importation permits.
Happy trails, Peter |
Its the yellow and white entry and exit cards that have been dropped for all borders except entry to Morocco by sea.
CIN and new D16 are still as usual. If your asked for your Carte Gris (V5 or vehicle registration) or Carte Verte (Green Card) by a police checkpoint then you've probably done something wrong ;) Careful in the WS as a lot of the speed limit signs on the RN1 have been removed with the road improvements north of Dakhla, interestingly a legiiate speeding ticket with receipt was only 150Dh instead of the usual 400dH (Not that I was speeding at all, definitely not me :rofl: ) |
Arrived via TangerMed yesterday.
White forms still required for now on the boat. Will report back regarding yellow forms in exit in a couple of weeks. No requirement for new drivers to visit police booth for passport composting. Happy trails, Peter |
Exited via TangerMed today. Turned up, got tickets, passport control, vehicle export and X-ray all completed in 30 minutes.
Yellow forms no longer required so perhaps white ones have been discontinued too. Happy trails, Peter |
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