Moroccan Woman Ordered to Leave France After Marriage Ends 52 Days Later

A job as a housekeeper and several steps to have domestic violence recognized were not enough for this Moroccan woman to retain her right to stay. In a ruling dated November 2, the Rennes Administrative Court rejected her appeals against two refusals of residence permits and upheld an order requiring her to leave France, coupled with a one-year re-entry ban.

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The Moroccan woman arrived legally in France on September 6, 2022, with a long-stay visa obtained after her marriage to a Frenchman. She says she left the marital home on October 28, less than two months later. When applying to renew her residence permit, she attributed the separation to violence allegedly committed by her husband.

To support her claims, she submitted a complaint filed in May 2023, certificates showing emergency accommodation, documents from associations and a medical certificate reporting symptoms consistent with her account. Her husband, who is under enhanced guardianship, and his sister, for their part, denounced the marriage as motivated by self-interest. The judges found that the alleged violence had not been sufficiently substantiated to allow her to retain her residence permit as the spouse of a French national.

Why her permanent contract was not enough

The Moroccan woman had also applied to change her status and obtain an employee residence permit. She had a part-time permanent contract as a housekeeper, but the 1987 French-Moroccan agreement requires an employment contract endorsed by the competent authorities. She had provided neither that document nor an application for work authorization filed by her employer.

The judges also examined her personal ties. She arrived in France at the age of 34, has no dependent children, and her parents, brothers and sisters still live in Morocco. Despite her professional integration, they found that she had not shown that she had established the center of her private and family life in France.

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The Ille-et-Vilaine prefecture had first refused her the right to stay in April 2025. A new decision, issued on August 8 that year, ordered her to leave France within 30 days and barred her from returning for one year. The Moroccan woman also cited a risk of discrimination in her country of origin because of her separation. The court found that the evidence submitted was insufficient to establish a personal risk of inhuman or degrading treatment.