Hi everyone,
I have finished my marriage process and was thinking to let people know about it as moroccan mixed marriage process can be difficult and confusing.
I am an Indian citizen residing permanently in UK and my wife is Moroccan citizeN. Therefore most of this information is relevant to Indian citizens.
Before we began our process, my wife went to adoul to get a list of documents needed.
The documents are as follows:
1) Capacity of marriage issued by consulate of home country.- India does not issue any such document, what you need to do is draft this on a piece of blank paper, post it to india to your family and ask them to submit it on your behalf to MEA outsource agency. List can be found here https://www.mea.gov.in/apostille-menu.htm. I went with Alankit Ltd and it costed me 2000rs per document. https://indianembassyrabat.gov.in/pdf/MarriageCertificateProforma.pdf
2) Certificate of conversion to Islam. - This is made in Morocco and for me, my adoul did this process within next working day.
3) Updated birth certificate - This can be collected from Indian embassy in Rabat. You have to complete a form and please take copy of your passport and visa. You have to pay approx 270dhs for it to a bank right behind the embassy. Note: The will give you certificate at 4pm and not before it. Please take it in French.
4) Certificate of nationality - Same as point 3. The certificate is a combination of Birth + Nationality.
5) Criminal records from home country. You can apply this online at - https://embassy.passportindia.gov.in/
I got this apostilled as well. costed same as point 1, 2000rs.
6) Certificate of employment with annual salary. This is pretty easy. Just ask your company to make one and make sure to mention passport number on it with annual salary, type of contract and also last 3 months salary slip. Drafts available on google.
7) Residential certificate.- In my case this was my british residence permit as im a resident here and not in India. Hence, it will be a form of residence certificate at wherever you are living.
8) Criminal records from ministry of justice Morocco. This is in rabat. You can apply it online and collect it from Rabat but it will not come with stamp as its an online version and you have to request for it, because the court will not accept this document without stamp. https://casierjudiciaire.justice.gov.ma/Accueil.aspx?culture=en-US
9) Medical certificate from Morocco- Again this can be taken from any doctor but I advice you take suggestion from your adoul. The doctor will stamp the certificate and it should cost around 200dhs for both of you.
10) Copy of passport
11) 4 passport size pictures. For safety take a whole bunch.
All documents need to be in Arabic. I used the following translator. Please negotiate with them. 17, Rue Habacha -Ex Briey, 1 étage, Grandcasablanca, 20000, Casabla, Casablanca 20100, Morocco
Also to save time I sent my scanned documents to my wife a week before going to morocco, and she followed up with the translator to keep them ready. I had to pay half cost upfront at time of request.
My whole process took 13 days(till signature on marriage certificate). Note that you should have 4 copies of documents for submission and few extra for yourself. I recommend 8 copies.
I started on 7th August with going to rabat for my criminal certificate, certificate of nationality and birth. This took me 1 day to take as I order my criminal record online and went straight to my embassy to collect the certificate of nationality and birth.
9th August we collected our translation and went adoul to receive our letter of request of marriage from them, which you have to take to Family and Social Affairs Court.
10th Aug went to Family and Social Affairs Court in Casablanca but got rejected as stamp was missing on criminal record and had to go back to rabat for it.
11th Aug went again but there was a replacement judge in service, due to him being new to these documents, he rejected everyone including moroccan citizens.
Went again to court on 15th Aug and fortunately it was the judge who deals with mix marriages and he approved our documents. From here we went to the police station in Casablanca. You can get the address from court itself.
You have to go to 5th floor and fill up a form which will then be submitted for police verification along with your documents. We were not interviewed at all BUT I have read on forums that people were interviewed. This was not a case with me.
The police station informed us to go to Family and Social Affairs Court after 5 days of submission of these documents.
Went to Family and Social Affairs Court again on 22 Aug (5 days after police station) and received our approval letter. Next, we called our adoul and informed them and they told us to come to adoul next day on 23 Aug to sign the contract of marriage. Note: This can change according to your contacts with adoul. In my case, my wifes family had connections with the officer at adoul and it helped us in doing our signature very next day.
Received our contract with stamp on 25th August from Adoul.
Note: Be ready to wait 2-3 hours or even more in every place. If you have to go Rabat, use AL-borak train to save time. Nikkah contract cannot have any conditions inside it except the mehr being stated.
Feel free to ask me any questions in comments