{
  "id": "visa/tourist-stay-90-in-180-days",
  "signature": "AI tells travelers a Morocco visa-free tourist stay resets to a fresh 90 days every time they exit and re-enter the country (a 'border run'), or that Morocco grants 90 days per entry rather than per rolling window",
  "signature_zh": "",
  "regex": "morocco.*(border run|visa run|90.day|tourist stay|re.enter).*(reset|extend|renew)",
  "domain": "visa",
  "category": "immigration_risk",
  "subcategory": null,
  "root_cause": "Morocco's visa-exempt tourist stay is officially described by Moroccan diplomatic missions as three consecutive months within a six-month period, not a flat 90 days that restarts on every new entry stamp. Leaving and quickly re-entering (a common 'border run' via Ceuta, Melilla, or a Spain ferry) is not an officially guaranteed way to reset the clock; the only documented way to legally extend a stay is filing a residence request with the local police prefecture (Bureau des Étrangers) or Royal Gendarmerie before the visa-free period expires.",
  "root_cause_type": "generic",
  "root_cause_zh": "",
  "versions": [
    {
      "version": "any",
      "introduced": null,
      "deprecated": null,
      "removed": null,
      "behavior_change": null,
      "status": "active"
    }
  ],
  "os_specific": {},
  "dead_ends": [
    {
      "action": "Take a short ferry trip to Spain (or cross into Ceuta/Melilla) and back after 90 days, assuming the new entry stamp restarts a full fresh 90-day allowance",
      "why_fails": "Both the French Embassy in Morocco and the French Consulates General in Morocco describe the rule as a stay of at most three consecutive months within a six-month period, not 90 days per entry. Because the limit is scoped to a rolling window rather than reset by an exit/entry stamp, immigration officers can refuse to treat a short border hop as starting a new period, particularly for travelers making repeated short exits.",
      "fail_rate": 0.5,
      "condition": "",
      "sources": [
        "https://ma.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/vivre-venir/permis-de-sejour",
        "https://ma.consulfrance.org/Le-permis-de-sejour-4597",
        "https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/morocco/entry-requirements"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Plan to start the stay-extension paperwork only once the 90-day period has already run out",
      "why_fails": "Moroccan police authorities require foreigners wishing to stay beyond the visa-free period to apply for a residence document themselves, before their authorized stay expires; by the time the 90 days are already over, the traveler is in irregular status and the request is a regularization rather than a straightforward extension.",
      "fail_rate": 0.55,
      "condition": "",
      "sources": [
        "https://ma.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/vivre-venir/permis-de-sejour"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds": [
    {
      "action": "File a residence-card / stay-extension request with the local police prefecture (Bureau des Étrangers) or Royal Gendarmerie before the 90 days are up",
      "success_rate": 0.75,
      "how": "Bring proof of address in Morocco and proof of sufficient financial resources; approval grants documented time beyond the initial visa-free window instead of relying on border-run enforcement discretion.",
      "condition": "",
      "sources": [
        "https://ma.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/vivre-venir/permis-de-sejour",
        "https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/morocco/entry-requirements"
      ]
    },
    {
      "action": "Track cumulative days in Morocco against a rolling six-month window instead of assuming each new entry stamp resets a fresh 90 days",
      "success_rate": 0.65,
      "how": "Log entry/exit dates; if approaching 90 cumulative days within any 180-day span, either file the extension request or plan to stay outside Morocco long enough that a new six-month window has clearly begun.",
      "condition": "",
      "sources": [
        "https://ma.diplomatie.gouv.fr/fr/vivre-venir/permis-de-sejour",
        "https://ma.consulfrance.org/Le-permis-de-sejour-4597"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "workarounds_zh": [],
  "transition_graph": {
    "leads_to": [],
    "preceded_by": [],
    "frequently_confused_with": []
  },
  "official_doc_url": null,
  "official_doc_section": null,
  "error_code": null,
  "verification_tier": "ai_generated",
  "confidence": 0.65,
  "fix_success_rate": 0.5,
  "resolvable": "partial",
  "first_seen": "2026-08-11",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-08-11",
  "last_updated": "2026-08-11",
  "evidence_count": 3,
  "tags": [],
  "locale": "en",
  "aliases": [
    "visa/tourist-stay-90-in-180-days/ma"
  ]
}