Mauri Visa in Rabat now on same day

[gemmasun]

Hi all

We just got Mauri visa in Rabat.
They just changed the rules and stuck a new notice on the wall outside.

New hours are
8am - 11am to get your forms and hand them in and pay your fee

Then on the SAME day
From 15:00 - 15:30 You can collect your visa.

Also if you have women in your group - good news - separate queue for ladies and the guard let one man in followed by one woman etc etc. As not many women there it was far quicker.

Good news.

Although for us - we paid for our hotel thinking we would pick our visa up the next day - the rules changed while we were queuing!!

Gemma

[autonomy]

Gemma does your visa have a sell by date ie a date by which it has to be used to enter Mauri?

I heard that the Rabat office only issue visas that are valid to use to enter Mauri for up to one month - meaning I would have to rush down the Maroc coastline.

[gemmasun]

We asked for our visa to start on 26 Nov, but when we got it, the start date was the date it was issued - 21 Nov.

We were talking to a guy who was cycling down and he told us he asked for his to start after longer than 1 month but they wouldn't do it - as you said, the longest in the future they would issue it was for 1 month in the future. He said he begged and offered a little baksheesh but they weren't interested.

He was resigned to putting his bike on a bus to get to the border in time.

[gvdaa]

I can imagine at the border they do not really mind if your visa is not valuable any longer. But you only know when you try.