France: The Kingdom’s 17 consulates laborious at work forward of the “Marhaba 2024” operation

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2024-06-28 17:52:57

Thus, a collection of measures have been taken by the consulates to help Moroccans in France of their return to the mom nation, specifically by means of the group of open days, cellular consulates, or the institution of everlasting places of work.

With the institution of the appointment system by way of the web site www.consulat.ma, the work of consulates which is carried out underneath the supervision of the Ministry of International Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans residing overseas , has turn into extra fluid and higher organized, the Consul Common of Morocco in Paris, Nada Bakkali Hassani, instructed MAP, specifying nonetheless that folks with out an appointment are by no means refused.

She stated that particular therapy is reserved for the aged and people with lowered mobility, for whom consulates arrange residence visits at hand over passports and id playing cards.

Referring to the Marhaba 2024 operation, Ms. Bakkali Hassani affirmed that to anticipate “the push” of the final days earlier than departures on trip to Morocco, the Paris consulate has taken a number of measures, primarily open days.

“The consulate opened its doorways for a number of weekends to welcome Moroccan residents wishing to finish their consular procedures,” she stated.

She specified that for the one day of Could 25, 123 folks had been obtained and 308 providers had been offered on the Paris consulate which has 103,467 registered.

Moreover, conferences had been held with neighborhood actors in order that they might contribute to elevating consciousness amongst members of the Moroccan neighborhood to hold out their administrative procedures earlier than the busy interval, to not point out consciousness campaigns on the work of consulates by way of social networks, the diplomat continued.

One other distinctive measure was put in place throughout the month of Ramadan, with a night opening, in accordance with Ms. Bakkali Hassani, explaining that this allowed residents, who couldn’t journey throughout the day, to return to the consulate to profit from all of the providers obtainable to them.

“For 2 or three years, we’ve got seen a selected enthusiasm amongst residents, particularly younger folks, who are available massive numbers to the Consulate,” the Consul Common additionally noticed.

“We welcomed numerous younger folks, for whom it was usually the primary time. It’s a supply of satisfaction for us to have the ability to help them of their efforts inside the Consulate,” she stated.

And the diplomat recalled that since November 2023, members of the Moroccan neighborhood can perform their administrative procedures in any consulate, with out worrying in regards to the districts underneath which their locations of residence fall.

“On the Consulate Common in Paris, we’ve got seen a major enhance within the variety of folks obtained. A couple of years in the past, we had been welcoming between 60 and 80 folks per day. Right now, this determine has elevated to a minimal of 120 folks per day,” she famous.

“That is the primary time I’ve come to the Moroccan Consulate in Paris to hold out administrative procedures and I have to say that I used to be pleasantly stunned by the fluidity of the method,” rejoiced Imane Ait Idir, a younger Moroccan scholar.

“On the web site, the required paperwork are clearly defined. You’ll be able to obtain them on-line and make an appointment, which could be very handy. I discovered that there was a variety of availability occasions for appointments, which is de facto helpful when you may have a job and may’t get away at any time,” she continued.

And he added: “The reception could be very properly organized with many counters obtainable. The steps to observe are clearly defined to us. I like to recommend this expertise to my fellow Moroccans.”

In an identical assertion, the Consul Common of Morocco in Villemomble, Sabah Ait El Bachir pressured that, on the eve of Operation Marhaba 2024, the consulate is working laborious to reply to the rising requests and calls for of residents.

On this context, “a number of measures have been taken in software of the Excessive Directions of His Majesty King Mohammed VI who continues to encompass the Moroccan neighborhood established overseas with His benevolent concern”, she affirmed.

Amongst these measures, she explains, are the “open days”, scheduled on weekends or public holidays and “cellular consulates” throughout which a number of providers are offered to members of the Moroccan neighborhood, who, for skilled or geographical causes, can’t go to the consulate throughout the week, noting that these operations expertise “a excessive attendance”.

Ms. Ait El Bachir specified that over the past open day on Could 25, a minimum of 200 providers had been offered, noting that her consular district has 200,000 registered residents, including that these initiatives are properly obtained by members of the Moroccan neighborhood.

“I had the chance to request the providers of the Moroccan consulate in Villemomble on a number of events, and I’m extraordinarily happy with their effectivity,” stated Manal El Abkari, a younger Moroccan resident within the Paris area.

“Making appointments is finished easily and shortly, because of a well-designed on-line system. The standard of providers is exceptional,” she added.

In Colombes, within the Paris area, the Consulate Common of Morocco can also be finishing up a collection of actions within the run-up to the summer time holidays and Eid Al-Adha, geared toward facilitating consular and administrative providers for Moroccan residents.

Amongst these initiatives, that are a part of the coverage of proximity and optimization of consular providers supposed for residents, in accordance with the Excessive Royal Directions geared toward bringing the administration nearer to Moroccans world wide, the group of a number of days ” open doorways” – the most recent having taken place on Could 25 – throughout which a number of consular providers had been offered to members of the Moroccan neighborhood, specifically the supply of administrative paperwork comparable to passports, nationwide id playing cards and adolescent acts, indicated to MAP, the Consul Common of Morocco in Colombes, Hiba Iraki Housseyni.

The consulate can also be implementing “an distinctive plan” all through Operation Marhaba, the diplomat stated, noting that on this event all employees will stay on the disposal of MREs.

“Throughout this era, the consulate will stay open till 6:30 p.m. as a substitute of 4:00 p.m., with the intention to enable residents to hold out their procedures in higher situations,” she stated.

The Moroccan consular community in France is distributed within the cities of Paris, Orly, Colombes, Pontoise, Villemomble, Orléans, Lille, Lyon, Marseille, Rennes, Strasbourg, Dijon, Montpellier, Bordeaux, Toulouse and Bastia. It was not too long ago bolstered by a seventeenth unit in Mantes-La-Jolie.

Launched in 2001 underneath the management of HM King Mohammed VI, Marhaba, historically organized from June 5 to September 15 of every yr, is a singular operation of its form, initiated underneath the supervision of a nationwide system that brings collectively all sectoral interventions, through which the Mohammed V Basis for Solidarity performs a central function with the intention to help, in the very best situations, the rising movement of Moroccans residing overseas upon their return to Morocco, throughout the summer time interval.

2024-06-28 17:52:57

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