Ten Moroccan associations have criticized “discriminatory” conditions and “humiliating treatment” for Moroccan visa applicants from European countries. In an open letter criticizing the visa policy of European countries, they are particularly addressed to France.
No less than ten associations, including the National Forum for Youth and Democracy (INJD), which brings together 16 youth from Moroccan political parties, the Prometheus Institute for Democracy and Human Rights, the Moroccan League for the Defense of Human Rights (LMDH) and the Moroccan Forum of Young Journalists (FMJJ) have called on European countries to review their ways of granting visas.
“The right to free movement is taken hostage,” protest the associations, recall that the measure taken, for example, by France to reduce visas granted to Moroccans by 50% is “a regressive retaliation measure” and an “unacceptable penalty”.
Several criticisms are addressed to European representations in Morocco, including “procedural inflation and the multiplication of categories and subcategories organized in cases, which burdens visa application procedures by making them more obsolete, opaque and permeable to the scam of the services interposed for the processing of applications”.
The associations explain that the “instruction deadlines that remain extremely variable” and the “imterminable” waiting times despite the assurance of the contrary, and denounce “the use of private operators who replace the French administration, which are not paid by the French State, but by the applicants themselves” and have disapproved that the costs of rejected files (with the exception of those with missing documents) be
Among the complaints retained, the letter from the associations finally speaks of “the outsourcing of the processing of visa applicants files does not fully guarantee the protection and security of personal data and in particular biometric identifiers”.
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