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Yahya411 wrote:

Inshallah, I'll apply for residency later this year. Is there a different procedure for someone applying for residency if married to Moroccan national? Also, my wife has a Moroccan bank account with more than $100,000 MAD from inheritance. Can I use her account to establish bank account requirement? My wife and I really want to decrease her bank amount below $10, 000 USD, because you've to file FBAR in USA. Do you really have to have Moroccan bank account with at least $100,000 MAD or can you show proof of retirement income or bank statement to show you've certain amount of USD? We are planning to buy our own home/apartment in Morocco, but will stay with family until we do so. Thanks for your help!

Hi with marriage you apply for family residency. And show your marriage document accept bank account balance can be less. Not sure exactly how much but I’ve never been asked for a balance of that amount On a family residency application

You can check with the local police for clarity. Just have to show you can afford to live in morocco I used to show my overseas account and local account

Yahya411 wrote:

Inshallah, I'll apply for residency later this year. Is there a different procedure for someone applying for residency if married to Moroccan national? Also, my wife has a Moroccan bank account with more than $100,000 MAD from inheritance. Can I use her account to establish bank account requirement? My wife and I really want to decrease her bank amount below $10, 000 USD, because you've to file FBAR in USA. Do you really have to have Moroccan bank account with at least $100,000 MAD or can you show proof of retirement income or bank statement to show you've certain amount of USD? We are planning to buy our own home/apartment in Morocco, but will stay with family until we do so. Thanks for your help!

Good afternoon Yahya411

In order to obtain your residency through marriage, since your wife is a Moroccan citizen, it will be fairly simple.


If you were married in the USA, as my husband and I were, you will have to first legalized your marriage in Morocco. We did it here, in Morocco so we needed first an apostille of our US marriage and submit all our paperwork to the tribunal.

Once we got the official Moroccan paper of our marriage, the process of getting my residency only took one month.

Since my husband and I do not work here, we still work in the US 5 months of the year, they did ask copy of his bank account from Morocco, they also asked us his last 3 bank statement.  I signed a waiver that my husband was supporting me, that I did not plan to work in Morocco, so yes, you can use her bank account, she will have to show that she can support you in Morocco.

I am not certain you can use a US bank account or your retirement income if this income does not arrive in a Moroccan bank.

The paperwork we had to submit:

-Legalized marriage in Morocco

-Certificate of residency for my husband and I, done here in Morocco

-Criminal record for me (for the first card, for the country of your citizenship)

-proof of residency, in our case, my husband owns his home, so his “titre foncier”

-Medical certificate (just a doctor visit here).


-Copy of my passport pages, legalized

-Waiver from my husband saying he was supporting me and that I was living in his house, legalized

-Waiver from me saying I did not plan to work in Morocco, legalized

At least 3 copies of all documents and a lot of pictures! I think it was 8 pictures.

As far as the FBAR is concerned, I believe it is for propriety you own outside the US, not bank accounts, perhaps I am mistaking. We pay our taxes on our income in the USA only, for what we own in Morocco, we pay only in Morocco…

Voila

Best of luck