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Please give me some info if its possible to get mauri visa on the border?
I know that its possible in Rabat, but we travel on quads and better get visa on the Western Sahara - Mauretania border We start next week from Dakhla
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Visas issued at the Morocco-Mori border since last October.
Some pay €50 for 15 days; others €95 for 3 months. More here.
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Whilst Chris is correct, you really need to ask yourself how your trip will be affected IF they decide, as they are known to do now and then not to issue them for a reason or another.
I've said it before...
Consider the mileage of reaching the border and possibly finding you cannot get your visa...
Are you happy riding a quad all the way there then having to go back to Rabat ( which you would probably pass through on the way down or can do a small divert ) then down again?
Miles= fuel + time + wasted expenses and risk an aborted trip? for what exactly?

Be wise, get it in Rabat- IMHO as there is an option (in Rabat)on the way down, take it.
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In January we met some German guys who were refused visas in Rabat. They were told to get them on the border.
The set up on the border is now quite sophisticated with a full biometric kit for photo and fingerprints, It took us about half an hour to be issued with the visa. I don't think they are going to scrap this any time soon. But who knows! If you are worried try Rabat as you will be passing anyway and they won't have the queues of the past.
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The Mauri border visa is now a sophisticated and reliable operation.

OP starts his trip in Dakhla which is only 3,5 hours drive from that border.

In case anyone's visa-on-arrival would be refused (very unlikely!), the smartest way would be to fly from Dakhla to Rabat (instead of driving).
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The Mauri border visa is now a sophisticated and reliable operation.

OP starts his trip in Dakhla which is only 3,5 hours drive from that border.

In case anyone's visa-on-arrival would be refused (very unlikely!), the smartest way would be to fly from Dakhla to Rabat (instead of driving).
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This is clearly not a temporary setup. Efficient, friendly and well-equipped.
But then again, TIA.

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Since a few months its also possible to get your [Mauritanian] biometric visa at the borderpost of Rosso, at the ferry. There's one price: €50 euro for a visa for one month. They don't issue the three day transitvisum.
At the other side of the river you can get your Senegalese visum. Even if you didn't pre-order it on the internet. But of course you do better to obtain it in your homecountry or the Senegalese embassy in Nouakchott and go to the Diama borderpost near Saint Louis.
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Since a few months its also possible to get your [Mauritanian] biometric visa at the borderpost of Rosso, at the ferry. There's one price: €50 euro for a visa for one month. They don't issue the three day transitvisum.
At the other side of the river you can get your Senegalese visum. Even if you didn't pre-order it on the internet. But of course you do better to obtain it in your homecountry or the Senegalese embassy in Nouakchott and go to the Diama borderpost near Saint Louis.

By saying this are you saying that its not possible to get the Mauri biometric visa the Diama crossing?

I've read Diama is the better (less hassle) crossing.

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I got my visa two times this year at the border between western Sahara and Mauritania near Nouadibou. Both times I had to wait four hours, as many Algerians and Moroccans are also waiting for visa! Not much shadow in front of the office involved. Paid a bribe to somebody in the end, otherwise it would have taken 8 hours, I fear. Next time I get my visa in Rabat.

From Mauritania I drove all the way to Agadez. No problems, only Niger visa is difficult in Bamako. At least two weeks waiting. Maybe better in Ouagadougou.
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Hope they aren't starting to mess up the border visa procedure, looking for bribes. That is what killed it last time, I heard.
Still beats spending two days in Rabat.
As for waiting, there are often westerners with trucks spending days sometimes weeks to pass the border customs, not being well organized (no documentation for the 50 refrigerators. fat tv sets etc they are bringing). Last time I was approached by someone looking like he had spent months, looked like Bigfoot. I hurried away and he started throwing rocks. Only later I heard he was actually a fellow countryman who had lost it, and felt a little bad about leaving him behind in no man's land. He may still be there...
Visa for Niger was easy in Ouaga.
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Rabat is same day service now!
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Mauritania raised the prices of visa at the border. Since last month you'll have to pay €120 instead of €50. A visa for one year is €240. Coming from the south (Rosso border) you'll have to pay €100 for a 'transiteur' doing the paperwork for your car. And they insist that all foreign immatriculated cars are being escorted to the the PK55 to the north.

Since last year august the importation of cars older than 8 years is prohibited. But at the Rosso customs the 'chef de brigade' insists all cars - also those of eight years or younger - have to be escorted. Unless you have a good story and can proof that you have business to do in Mauritania.

Last year some people were also forced to take an escorte from PK55 to the south, but now only Africans or African born Europeans with foreign cars have to do so. On the northern border you pay €50 for the 'transiteur'.

For the latest information you always can call these guys: Ahmeida Mezeid: 00222 47403323 (PK 55/Nouadhibou) or David Diallo 00222 46476883 (Rosso)

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