Originally Posted by Tim Cullis

British citizens don't need a VISA or Carnet for Morocco, but must have the original motor registration document (V5) plus your passport. If you don't have green card cover for Morocco you can purchase it per below.

When purchasing your ferry tickets at Algeciras, ask for white Moroccan immigration forms. You need two varients of these, one for entry, one for exit. Use the time on the ferry to complete them.

As you leave Spanish Morocco, you will be directed into a holding area for processing your entry into Morocco. You can safely ignore anyone not wearing either a gun or a pale blue customs uniform. There are lots of touts who are there to relieve you of money in exchange for smoothing your entry, but it's much more of an achievement to get through without 'help'. Also it's often quicker as the touts make everything seem very complex to show you how you need their help.

As of May 2005 the holding area consisted of admin buildings on the left and parking on the right, per plan below (you are entering from the bottom of the plan).

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| Assurance
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| B.M.C.E.
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1. Go to the portacabin and get a temporary import form for the bike (Declaration d’Importation Temporaire de Moyens de Transport). This is green and in triplicate. Write down your name (first, family), your nationality, passport number, and number of nights you are staying. Then the bike registration and country (GB), the manufacturer and model, and the chassis number from your V5.

2. Go to the passport window and hand in your passport and white immigration form. You will get a stamp and a number in the passport. Add the number onto the green import form after your nationality (second line).

3. Go to the BMCE bank and change some money. If you don't already have green card cover go to the Assurance Frontiere office to arrange. This will cost 59€ or 558MAD for 10 days and about 80€ for a month.

4. Now go back to the portacabin and hand in the passport, green import form, your V5 and either the green card or the border insurance. The forms will be stamped.

5. Now find the head honcho in the pale blue uniform (probably sitting down somewhere in the shade) to let him see and initial everything.

6. You can now ride forward to the actual customs post, but don't put anything away as you'll need to show everything again.

The return trip is much easier. You need to queue with your passport and white exit form. Then queue again to hand in the two remaining sheets of the temporary import form, one of which will be returned to you.

Tim

Originally Posted by JonStobbs

I seem to have got side tracked a bit....
Insurance.I got mine through Carole Nash for my trip.Norwich Union do a week at a time for about £15 a week for the green card,though you can get cover at the border anywhere.At Tangier the insurance kiosk is on the left as you leave the passport holding area,and they take Euros so no need to change money at the port.You'll get a better exchange rate if you go into the city centre to either the Banc du Maroc or the Banc Populare.One tip is take GBpounds and not Euros as the exchange rate is quite a bit better for sterling(we didn't know this).Another thing to note is that when you leave the country you'll need to re-change all your remaining Dirahms back as you won't be able to do this anywhere outside of Marocco.And Banc du Maroc is the only place you can do this,the other banks won't want to know.Opening times are 8.30am-3pm only.You can do it via the black market at the exit port but you'll get a really crap rate.