Refused Moroccan Residency

[KittyPollitt 284]

Today my daughter and I were refused Moroccan residency cards because my fiance and I are not married.. This is something I assumed would happen *on the lighter side of it, you all should have seen the look on the face of the officer when my fiance, while holding our daughter, told him that we are not married *

Anyway, it looks like we are headed north to Melilla or Ceuta in 2 1/2 months to exit and re enter... Has anyone else had to do this, or knows someone who has? Which city do you think would be better, and are there risks involved? Thanks for any input!

Sarah

[zaytoona 8]

Today my daughter and I were refused Moroccan residency cards because my fiance and I are not married.. This is something I assumed would happen *on the lighter side of it, you all should have seen the look on the face of the officer when my fiance, while holding our daughter, told him that we are not married *

Anyway, it looks like we are headed north to Melilla or Ceuta in 2 1/2 months to exit and re enter... Has anyone else had to do this, or knows someone who has? Which city do you think would be better, and are there risks involved? Thanks for any input!

Sarah

Hi Sarah,

Sorry to hear that you were refused. I heard both areas are nice, but I would choose whatever is closest to you. If I were in your situation, I think I would choose Ceuta, since it is close to Tanger. Oh, and I hardly think there would be any risk to it. Good luck!

Olive

[Mommy2ZaidnSalma 11]

My husband and I married and filed DCF due to a similair situation but I will say from the families perspective, when I went to Jordan for the first time I INSISTED my husband (fiance at the time) rent a flat for us. It wasnt a few days after being there that we were being harassed by people and moved to his moms. The fact that my husband and his family would allow us to live together unmarried really put alot of shame on my husbands family. It caused alot of problems with his unmarried sisters. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that the "R" family in Zarqa allowed things like that to occur in their household so no one wanted to come and ask for my SIL hands. I wouldnt be surprised if you encounter alot of problems like this while you are there. It seems like your husbands family is a very conservative Muslim family, I would just be very careful about broadcasting the fact that you and your fiance are raising a baby out of wedlock. Im not trying to bring you down and I am in no way trying to be judgemental bc honestly I see nothing wrong with the situation, however, in a Muslim country, you really need to be careful.

[AlHayatZween 2]

You are so scandalous, Squeaky! :dance:

jk... sorry, that is a bummer, but not surprising...

You have a couple of months. You could either a) just exit and re-enter, and it should be fine, or b) you could try to get some part-time work at one of the language schools, and they might be able to facilitate a carte du sejour for you. It is temporary residency based on employment. But really, i think you are fine just exiting and re-entering... people do it all the time.

Bonne chance

[KittyPollitt 284]

My husband and I married and filed DCF due to a similair situation but I will say from the families perspective, when I went to Jordan for the first time I INSISTED my husband (fiance at the time) rent a flat for us. It wasnt a few days after being there that we were being harassed by people and moved to his moms. The fact that my husband and his family would allow us to live together unmarried really put alot of shame on my husbands family. It caused alot of problems with his unmarried sisters. Everyone in the neighborhood knew that the "R" family in Zarqa allowed things like that to occur in their household so no one wanted to come and ask for my SIL hands. I wouldnt be surprised if you encounter alot of problems like this while you are there. It seems like your husbands family is a very conservative Muslim family, I would just be very careful about broadcasting the fact that you and your fiance are raising a baby out of wedlock. Im not trying to bring you down and I am in no way trying to be judgemental bc honestly I see nothing wrong with the situation, however, in a Muslim country, you really need to be careful.

I am fortunate that his family are not very conservative Muslims at all, and have been pretty Americanized in their thinking for 3 generations since his grandfather was a contractor for the US Army.. They even seemed appalled that their government wouldnt just give me residency lol.. I think we are fortunate too, to be living in Casablanca, where the fascination of the American girl living in No.51 will be forgotten when the next neighborhood scandal pops up- I dont go out very often, and this is a BIG city...