The Moroccan Association for Human Rights (AMDH) Nador section has highlighted the growing difficulties encountered by Moroccans, particularly in Nador, to obtain visa appointments, pointing the finger at illegal practices and exorbitant costs linked to these requests.
The AMDH office in Nador has sent a letter to the Consul General of the Kingdom of Spain in Nador and to the Minister of Foreign Affairs, African Cooperation and Moroccans Living Abroad regarding the manipulations linked to obtaining appointments to request a Spanish visa.
"After listening to some of the citizens concerned, the association noted the difficulties encountered by Moroccan citizens to obtain appointments for their visa applications, which the company BLS International in Nador is responsible for organising", specified the AMDH in a statement.
It made it known that it has become almost impossible to obtain an individual appointment on the official website of the company in charge of this service, thus opening the way for the emergence of illegal networks taking care of making appointments using encryption techniques (SCRIPTS, ROBOTS), and this, at exorbitant costs that can reach up to 5,000 dirhams per person.
To this is added the collection of fees simply for making an appointment with the company mandated to process the requests, followed then by additional payments, a part going to BLS International and the other to the consular services.
"It is important to note that these fees are not reimbursed to the applicant in case of refusal of his request, which imposes undue fees on citizens for a service from which they did not benefit. In the absence of regular appointments, citizens are sometimes forced to request the service at home via the official website, without any real difference from the normal procedure, if not the prohibitive cost that exceeds 2,600 dirhams. The situation is exacerbated by the congestion and the degrading treatment that citizens undergo in front of the entrance of the company concerned", added the same source.
In this worrying context, the AMDH in Nador calls for an urgent intervention by the competent authorities in order to put an end to these abusive practices and to eradicate this degrading treatment inflicted on Moroccan citizens, which constitutes an attack on the freedom of movement enshrined by international human rights conventions.
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