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Migration: Over 18,000 Applications in 2nd Phase of Regularization Operation

Thursday, 09 March 2017

Some 18,281 applications for regularization of irregular migrants have been filed in Morocco since the launch of the 2nd phase of this operation until March 8, Minister for Moroccans Living Abroad and Migration Affairs, Anis Birou, said.

These applications, filed in 69 prefectures throughout the Kingdom, concern different nationalities, Birou said at the launch, Thursday in Rabat, of the project "Stories without Visas" which recounts, via digital stories, the experience of eight refugees in search for a better life and have chosen Morocco to settle.

Last December, Morocco launched the second phase of the regularization operation, an approach aimed at achieving the economic and social integration of people in an irregular situation, most of them from sub-Saharan countries.

Since 2013, the exceptional operation of regularization of illegal migrants in Morocco has allowed the regularization of about 25,000 migrants.

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