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Mixed Marriage in Morocco - A Help Guide

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summerlee
  2/6/2012 16:09 EST

Hi everyone.

Ive noticed that alot of people ask for help re mixed marriage in Morocco. Here is my own personal experience that i want to share.

Some information you might want to know is that im from New Zealand and my partner is Moroccan and we completed this whole process is Agadir, Morocco.

Step One: Before leaving your home country you should sort these papers

1. No Impediment to Marriage certificate
2. Updated Birth Certificate
3. Criminal records from Home country
4. Certificate of Previous employment stating dates worked and annual salary
5. Certificate of Nationality (If your country does not have this then your birth certificate and passport will be fine)
6. Certificate of Religion

After you have all these papers you should take them to a notary public or a government official to state that the documents are true and accurate.
They need to put there signature and stamp on your papers.
After this you then need them to be translated to ARABIC. DO NOT TRANSLATE TO FRENCH IT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED.

After the translation you then need to send all the papers to the moroccoan embassy designated for your country. For New Zealand it was the Moroccan embassy in Australia. You need to include in the package a cash cheque for them to put the special stamps on the papers and a prepaid courier bag to send the papers back to you.
(For information on how much you need to send for the cash cheque you should contact the moroccan embassy for your country)

Once all of this is done you are good to go to Morocco.
Once you are in Morocco you need to go to the MINISTRY DE LA JUSTICE , RABAT. Its a day trip and you need to get your criminal records from there. Get them done up in arabic. Cost is 30dh.

Once you have this paper you and your partner need to go see a doctor in Morocco and get a general test done on both of you. This includes general check up, xray and blood tests. cost is 200dh each.

After this your partner needs his or her moroccan national identidy card (THE NEW ONE), crimianl records from his or her city of residence, no impediment to marriage certificate and an updated birth certificate.

Once he has these you can both take all your papers to an adoul. He is the one that will help you to marry in court. Depeding on your country it will range between 2000 to 3000 dh.

Then your done...fianlly!!!!

Its the most time gruely process and expensive i migth add but worth it in the end.

Give your self plenty of time. Theres always something or someone to sting you money wise around each corner so be prepared for a few shocks.

Please responde if this has helped some of you to get a better understanding.

Cheers

marrakchimanquee
  2/7/2012 11:00 EST

Hi Summerlee,

I just wanted to apologise for not thanking you when you responded to an earlier post of mine. I am a great deal older than you & most definitely NOT looking to marry anyone! To have relocated such a very long distance and to a completely different culture at your age, is a very brave thing to do. I truly hope your husband & his family are worth your sacrifices & that you are enjoying the undoubted challenges of you new life. Best Wishes ps if I ever did want to marry, having read all of these posts, all I can say is that I am very glad I'm English!

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kato
  2/7/2012 12:02 EST

Hi marrakchimanquee
first of all thanks for the great help summerlee is bringing to others who are in need for this informations.
for some reason i can feel some hatred in your words
if you are glad you are english then good luck to you we here in a morrocan forum let me remind you and we are glad to be morrocan too!!
you know better than anyone that being english does not mean for sure finding the pefect english english man who is WORTH what you do for him!!

cheers

marrakchimanquee
  2/7/2012 15:34 EST

kato, I do not know what you think you read in my message, but I can assure you it is not there. I have no hatred in my heart for anyone or any place: indeed I would never even use such a word. I was merely making a joke regarding the relatively low amount of administration required in the UK; no criticism of any other country or people was intended. As for the perfect man, I don't believe he exists- and neither does the perfect woman!

summerlee
  2/7/2012 18:15 EST

Hi everyone and thanx for your resposes. I agree with you Marrakechmanqee....the amount of admin work involved here is a large amount and very time consuming compared with my country new zealand and as you said for the U.K as well. Each country to there own ways and rules i guess. I believe that good things dont come so easy and this was sure one of them. Thankyou for wishing me all the best for the future and i hope the same for you as well :)
and to kato im so happy that i have shed some much needed light on the topic..i remember first comming into this seeing so many questions and a thousand confusing answers. Anyway peace to all. I have known my now husband for 5 years now and still going strong so to share the experiences of what i have had is truely something to share. :) :) :)

slimjimza
  2/8/2012 13:03 EST

hi thank you for your advice i am from South africa and intend on marrying a women in morocco. well i will try very hard to get this done. hold thumbs it works out for me.

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summerlee
  2/8/2012 17:08 EST

Hi Slimjimza. The advice i have for you that you want to marry a moroccan women is that your relgion must be islam....it cant be cristianity for the male. for foreign women wanting to marry morocan men their religion can either be christianity or islam. i was already islamic previous in new zealand so no problem there. ill say again..before you come to morocco your religion must be islam or the adoul will not accept the marriage. I also confirmed this with my moroccan husband right now to make sure im correct

slimjimza
  2/9/2012 00:53 EST

well then salaams i am a muslim, so no problems there. i really would appreciate any further pointers you can give. shukran

summerlee
  2/9/2012 14:34 EST

Hiya Slimjimza. Awesome then you should have no problems..just follow the steps that i have provided and there should be no problem. and when you do come to morocco, take the day to shop around for an adoul..there are alot of them around and they all seem to give a different price that can range between 2000 to 3000dh.
Good luck and im glad my forum had helped you for a better understading :)

nnclkhalifi
  2/9/2012 15:36 EST

Hi Bro,
Many people think around the world think that muslims can get married by just a word of Quran and that's it..
I would like to say that the administrative procedure for closing a "mixed" marriage ( a moroccan and another nationality) takes many directions and levels.
My help for you will be the following:
before you come, try to bring with you the following documents: Medical certificate, Criminal records from the police department from where you live .
when you come in morocco, you should go to your consulate and you get these papers as well:
- a permission from your embassy that you can marry in morocco ( you get it immediately)
- Nationality certificate
- Birth certificate ( you should bring it with you from ur counry)
- Criminal record from the moroccan ministry of Justice in Rabat ( take with you a copy of your passport and you need to pay 10 dhs there for it - less than 1 pound)

when you get all these papers, you must translate them into Arabic for the court as you are in arabic country.and the moroccan peerson should get:
medical certificate
pregnancy analysis from a gynycologue in morocco
birth certificate
copy of the ID
residence certificate from where she lives
fiance certificate from where she lives
then, go to a tyrpig office, you write down from the court asking them to get a "permission for a mixed marriage"

after that, make 3 other copies in addition to the original, plus 2 pictures for each person,
give this in the court, and then they will call you from the police station for an interview .. it's nothing than a chat to present yourselves
after the police interview, you will be called from the court to take the paper " permission for a mixed marriage" .
when you get this permission, then you can go to the office "Adoul" in arabic where you can sign the marriage certificate which will cost you around 700dhs, and you wait some days to get your marriage documents

summerlee
  2/10/2012 11:00 EST

hi there nnclkhalifi. Thankyou also for your guided understanding. im just wondering what city you did this all in? was it agadir or another city? and did you say that the adoul cost 700dh for you or just the papers? because if the adoul was just 700dh then thats really cheap considering i know the boss of police in agadir and he got for me the cheapest of all adouls in agadir that charged 2000dh

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nnclkhalifi
  2/11/2012 07:12 EST

HI Brother,
sorry for this late reply. Concerning the city where I did the whole process was in Tangier. while it is considered the most expensive city in morocco. I have been asking some Edouls before I chose, and some of them said in the beginning 1500 dhs, so, it s also a matter of bargaining.
for 2000 dhs, they should make all your papers, but if it s only for making the marriage certificate, normally for a moroccan moroccan marriage, they charge around 300 dhs, since it s a mixed marriage, they say the certificate should be better well presented and written and stamped .
it s their marketing strategies ..
cheers bro

slimjimza
  2/16/2012 00:53 EST

thank you guys so much for your advice it is much appreciated.

slimjimza
  2/16/2012 00:55 EST

but is it possible to do a nikkah first and then arrange the court marriage as a lot of family members and friends want to come with me and i dont want to dissappoint them

kazziebabe
  2/26/2012 13:32 EST

I am English and would just like to say I married my Moroccan Husband in september of last year,I went over to Morocco to get married. i went in the month of August and had 19 days out there,The process was extreamly daunting and we managed to get the marriage act done on the day b4 I came home,If it wasnt for a family member helping us we would not of had enough time to get married,also it was Ramadan when I went over so that didnt help us.we are about to have our honeymoon in April this year as we didnt have time as a married couple in september,we cant wait.

jagal
  10/12/2012 15:13 EST

hi thank you for your helping
but can you please tell me what i need to do , for can move to live in new zealnd the steps because im from morocco and me too i have wife from there please :)

cmsadar
  9/11/2017 05:01 EST

Dear Brother, Can you suggest me help points at Tanger? Also can you suggest me a good Adhoul at Tanger. Thank you.

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