
Marrakech Airport: 61% of Departures Delayed on Sunday
Delays piled up at Marrakech-Menara on Sunday, October 4. By late evening, 61% of departures were reported delayed, with some European flights running nearly two hours behind schedule.

Delays piled up at Marrakech-Menara on Sunday, October 4. By late evening, 61% of departures were reported delayed, with some European flights running nearly two hours behind schedule.

The first Airbus A350F is due to make its maiden flight in Toulouse on Tuesday morning. The aircraft is beginning a 400-hour test campaign, while Morocco already supplies Airbus programs and is set to take on new production for the A350.

A Moroccan woman subject to an OQTF has just won her appeal. Despite having lived in Morocco for thirty years and having family ties there, the court has now ordered the French authorities to issue her a residence permit.

After more than twelve years of lawful residence in France, a Moroccan national had lost his residence permit and received an OQTF accompanied by a five-year re-entry ban. The court of appeal overturned the entire procedure because a summons had never been sent.

Arriving in France in March 2002 at just two years old, a Moroccan man lived there for more than 24 years. After several criminal convictions, he was deported to Morocco on July 3. The Toulouse Administrative Court of Appeal has just rejected his request to suspend the measure.

Employed on a permanent contract as a heavy-goods vehicle driver, a Moroccan man wanted to change from the status of spouse of a French woman to that of an employee after his divorce. His employer submitted four work permit applications. All of them were closed. The prefecture ultimately refused him residence and issued him an OQTF.

France remains the top destination for Moroccan students abroad. But an unusual trend is emerging: their numbers there have been declining for three years, while they are rising sharply in Germany. New French measures could further intensify this trend.

At 18, Yassine is giving up returning to Morocco this summer. He is working at a warehouse in Toulouse to save around 2,000 euros. An amount that has become insufficient in the face of the tightening financial conditions imposed on foreign students in France.

A Moroccan man was refused renewal of his residence permit and issued an OQTF. The prefecture notably considered that his Spanish wife had neither an employment contract nor her own resources. Yet she had been working for several months, with an income of around 2,000 euros.

A Moroccan driving licence cannot always be exchanged for a French licence . The Conseil d’État has just upheld a refusal concerning a driver who had not sufficiently proved that he was actually residing in Morocco when he obtained his licence.

A Toulouse-based fast-food chain says that an establishment in Al Hoceïma is using its name without belonging to its network. It warns customers that it guarantees neither the products served nor the quality of the service.

The special procedure allowing certain undocumented immigrants working in a shortage occupation to obtain a residence permit does not directly apply to Moroccans. Their situation remains governed by the 1987 Franco-Moroccan agreement, the courts have just confirmed.