Off the wire
• Interview: Serbia's foreign minister praises relations with China  • Chinese premier congratulates new Italian PM  • Certain regions may run out of groundwater in decades: research  • China to advance fiscal, taxation, financial reform  • Afghan troops destroy narcotics worth millions of dollars  • Spotlight: Egypt draws on expatriate scientists for future growth  • 1st LD: China emphasizes financial risk prevention  • Nigeria welcomes minister's appointment as UN deputy secretary-general  • Indonesia's Bali picked as most popular yearend destination in Asia  • Talking points ahead of La Liga matchday 16  
You are here: 　 Home

Illegal migrants in Morocco apply to regularize status

Xinhua, December 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

Thousands of illegal migrants in Morocco started Thursday to apply for regularization of their status as residents, local media reported on Friday.

Prefectural and provincial committees, composed of representatives of local authorities and civil society associations, will examine requests submitted by irregular migrants, Morocco World News website said, citing the National Commission of Illegal Immigrants' Regularization.

A monitoring and appeals committee, chaired by the National Human Rights Council, will be set up to review applications rejected by local committees, "in order to optimize the regularization process and increase the number of beneficiaries," the commission said.

It is the second phase of a national campaign to regularize illegal migrants starting in 2014.

The commission said that the second phase aims to "regularize the largest number of migrants in accordance with a solidary and inclusive migration policy."

The review process will focus on foreigners married to Moroccan nationals, foreign spouses of other foreigners who are legally resident in Morocco, children born from the two above-mentioned cases, foreigners with effective employment contracts, foreigners with 5 years of continued residence in Morocco and foreigners with chronic diseases. Endit