After You Arrive

Your First Week in Morocco

A simple plan for your first days in Morocco: a phone line, your university, your residence card (the card from the police that lets you stay for more than 90 days) and your bank.

Morocco Arrival Timeline

Reach your housing: Keep your rental contract safe. You need it for your card.
Get a SIM card: Bring your passport. The shop must record your ID.

Priority
First 24 hours

Rest, get a phone line and keep your papers safe.

Essential Tasks

Reach your housing: Keep your rental contract. Students who rent privately need it for the residence card.
Get a SIM card: Bring your passport. Phone companies must record your ID before the SIM works.

Quick Tips

Emergency contacts to save

Police: 19

First day

Keep your passport, visa and AMCI letter or enrolment certificate together.
Keep copies of every paper you brought from home.

First 3 days: your university

Get your study papers in order first.

Campus & Administration

Visit the international office: Ask which papers your university gives you for the residence card and the bank.
AMCI students: go to AMCI: Public university students show their AMCI letter at the AMCI office in Rabat, then join their university.

First week: your official papers

Start your residence card early. Some papers take time.

Official Registration

Finish enrolment: Get your enrolment certificate. This is a paper from your university that shows you are a student. The police and the bank ask for it.
Apply for your residence card: Go to the police foreigners' office with 2 copies of your papers, stamped as true copies by a notary (an official).

Social & Practical

Open a bank account: You need a bank letter for your residence card.
Join health insurance: Public university students aged 30 or under join the student health insurance (AMOE) at no cost, through the university.

Safety and emergency

Save these numbers in your phone.

Emergency Numbers

Service	Number
Police	19

Safety Tips

Carry your residence card with your passport. If you do not have the card yet, carry the récépissé, the paper that proves you applied. The police can ask to see them.