Nearly one hundred visa applications have been blocked from the Belgian consulate in Rabat due to alleged visa fraud.
The people concerned all wanted to go to Belgium to work in Flanders, but irregularities alerted the consular services.
While the case was supposed to concern only Turkey, where hundreds of fraudulent files were discovered, dozens of such files were found in Morocco as well, according to the office of the Flemish Minister of Labor, Jo Brouns.
These blocked suspicious applications number 80 in Morocco and 200 in Turkey, and the facts date back to last summer.
The consulates reported these suspected cases of fraud to the Belgian federal government, but the report to the Foreigners’ Office and the Flemish Ministry of Labour was not received until October.
At present, investigations are being carried out to find out if it is a network of smugglers who take people to Belgium for false contracts.
The suspicion is that this is an abusive technique used when a trade cannot find workers in Belgium to recruit abroad from outside the European Union. Smugglers would have used this “combined permit” for false recruitment.
Other irregularities have been observed recently in the context of visa services for European countries in Morocco. Networks of fraudulent intermediaries charge Moroccan travelers up to 5,000 dirhams just to get a visa appointment.
The Italian Embassy was the first to react by announcing the termination of its contract with the service provider TLS Contact for the issuance of visas to Morocco and the change to VF Worldwide.
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