Moroccans Lead in French Residence Permit Recipients for 2024
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Roshan Amiri
- . February 6, 2025
- . Update: February 6, 2025 6:23 pm
In 2024, the succession of the trend from the previous year, to the recognition of Moussias as the largest French community with the largest number of residence permits in 2024, was held. French Ministry of the Interior also states that a total number of 37,000 Moroccans hold a valid residence permit, among those, more than 0.4% is that when one time broke the new record, by reaching a 36,845 mark, towards the 2023 timeline; however, altogether, a count of valid residence permits among Moroccan citizens for French is up to 603,482 which accounted for 2.7 percent more from the previous year.
Algerians were in second place with 32,003 licenses, with Tunisians, Chinese, and American citizens following them. According to the statistics of the ministry, family and economic reasons were the main reasons for the permits granted, which were 43.4% of the first-time documents. The first three countries of the Aghreb community accounted for a major part of family permits, whereas Morocco and Tunisia were also the ones that showed the largest figures in the economic category.
The improvement of ties should have been up to a certain extent with the diplomatic relations between Morocco and Paris; however, the last weeks have seen several Moroccan people raising complaints about visa application rejections. The case happens as Morocco continues to be the first origin country for visa applications in France; 310,057 applications were submitted in 2023, according to Schengen Visa Info.
