Travel Reference
In-Depth Information
» Your passport will be stamped upon arrival in the zone, and you can then stay for up to 90 days
(straight or cumulative) within 180 days. This means, for example, that when you leave the zone at the
end of a three-month stay, you are not permitted to re-enter for three months.
» For more information, see Spain's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation
( www.exteriores.gob.es ) and Lonely Planet guides, including Mediterranean Europe, which has
chapters on Spain and Morocco.
Visa Extensions
» Most travellers requiring a visa extension find it easiest to head to mainland Spain, or one of the Spanish
enclaves in Morocco, and re-enter after a few days.
» Although doing a visa run generally presents few problems other than travel costs, it leaves you at the
mercy of individual immigration officers on re-entry. Travellers have occasionally come unstuck this way.
» A harder alternative is to apply for a visa extension, issued by the Directorate General of National Secur-
ity.
» Residence (a Carte de Sejour) is also available, but it is difficult to get and usually requires proof of em-
ployment.
» Go to the nearest police headquarters (Préfecture de Police) to check what documents they require.
» If possible, take a Moroccan friend to help you deal with the bureaucrats.
» In addition to your passport and three passport photos, the police will likely require a letter from your em-
bassy requesting a visa extension on your behalf.
» Applications can take days or weeks, and the different procedures employed by different police headquar-
ters may hold up proceedings.
International Health Certificate
If you're coming to Morocco from certain parts of Africa and South America where yellow fever is endem-
ic, you'll need to show you've been vaccinated by producing a yellow-fever certificate or international certi-
ficate of vaccination.
In practice this is usually only required if you've travelled overland up through Mauritania, where yellow
fever is endemic (although anecdotal evidence disputes how rigorously the order is enforced at the land bor-
der), or arrived from an African country on, say, a Royal Air Maroc flight.
We would recommend, however, that travellers carry a certificate if they have been in an infected country
during the previous month to avoid any possible difficulties with immigration.
There is always the possibility that a traveller without a legally required, up-to-date certificate will be
vaccinated and detained in isolation at the port of arrival for up to 10 days, or possibly repatriated.
 
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