{"id":8558,"date":"2023-02-23T07:29:36","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T06:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/?post_type=actualites&#038;p=8558"},"modified":"2025-12-28T19:51:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T18:51:24","slug":"denied-schengen-visas-cost-moroccans-dearly","status":"publish","type":"actualites","link":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/news\/denied-schengen-visas-cost-moroccans-dearly\/","title":{"rendered":"Refused Schengen visa applications cost Moroccans dearly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Schengen visas pose many problems for travelers wishing to enter the Schengen area. The high cost of visa applications, intermediaries and the complexity of document collection are all factors that make this step unattainable for travelers. In 2021, the refusal of many visa applications resulted in high costs for applicants. Statistics from <strong>shengenvisainfo.com<\/strong> show that nationals of several countries have spent large sums of money on refused visa applications.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Read also: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/solutions-for-the-top-10-schengen-visa-refusal-reasons\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"7278\">Reasons for refusing Schengen visas (France, Spain, etc.) and how to avoid them<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/visa-application-rejected-appeal-against-refusal-decision\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"1699\">France Schengen visa application rejected? Here is the procedure for appealing against refusal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The high cost of applying for a Schengen visa<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The costs associated with applying for a Schengen visa can be considerable for applicants. The visa fee of \u20ac80 per person is only part of the equation. In addition to the visa fee, travelers often have to pay intermediaries to help them complete their visa application, as well as fees for collecting the required documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to visa fees and intermediaries, applicants have to pay for the documents required to apply, travel insurance, hotel reservations and flights with non-refundable charges. According to Besart Bajrami, it is difficult to calculate the total amount spent in 2021, but it would be at least 3 million euros.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Morocco, the country most affected by Schengen visa refusals <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Morocco is the fifth country in the world with the highest number of Schengen visa applications in 2021, after Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia. However, it is also the country with the highest refusal rate, with 27.6% of the total. <a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/visa-application-rejected-appeal-against-refusal-decision\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"1699\">rejected requests<\/a>. This situation has a significant financial impact on Moroccans, who have to pay non-refundable visa fees for visas they never obtained.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">France, the country that refuses the most visas to Moroccans <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Les statistiques sur les <a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/visa-hacks-immigration-et-voies-meconnues-2026\/\"  data-wpil-monitor-id=\"131\">visas Schengen montrent que la France<\/a> est le pays qui refuse le plus de visas aux Marocains. Sur les 58 310 demandes de visa re\u00e7ues en 2021, la France en a refus\u00e9 20 369, soit 35%. En revanche, l\u2019ambassade d\u2019Espagne au Maroc a refus\u00e9 15 137 des 84 499 demandes de visa Schengen qu&rsquo;elle a re\u00e7ues, soit 18%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"> Immigration figures for France in 2022 <\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2022, France issued 1.7 million visas, compared with 733,070 in 2021, an increase of 137.1%. The number remains lower than the total <a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/solutions-for-the-top-10-schengen-visa-refusal-reasons\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"7278\">visas issued<\/a> before the health crisis in 2019, which was 3.5 million visas. Over 2.3 million visa applications were received in 2022, and 500,000 were refused. Migration flows also increased, with 320,330 first residence permits issued. First permits issued increased by almost 17% compared with 2021, with student permits accounting for the largest number of permits issued. As for asylum, 156,103 applications were made, an increase of 28.6% compared with 2021. Finally, the number of naturalizations fell by 16.3% in 2022 compared with 2021, with a total of 78,711 people acquiring French nationality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Read also: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/solutions-for-the-top-10-schengen-visa-refusal-reasons\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"7278\">Reasons for refusing Schengen visas (France, Spain, etc.) and how to avoid them<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/guide\/visa-application-rejected-appeal-against-refusal-decision\/\" data-type=\"guide\" data-id=\"1699\">France Schengen visa application rejected? Here is the procedure for appealing against refusal<\/a><\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Le Maroc est le cinqui\u00e8me pays au monde \u00e0 avoir d\u00e9pos\u00e9 le plus de demandes de visas Schengen en 2021, apr\u00e8s la Russie, la Turquie, l\u2019Ukraine et l\u2019Arabie saoudite. Cependant, il est \u00e9galement le pays qui a le taux de refus le plus \u00e9lev\u00e9, avec 27,6% des demandes rejet\u00e9es. Cette situation a un impact financier important pour les Marocains, qui doivent payer des frais de visa non remboursables,  des visas qu&rsquo;ils n&rsquo;ont jamais obtenus.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8559,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"raccourcis":[],"related":[126],"cat-news":[80],"pays":[],"class_list":["post-8558","actualites","type-actualites","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","related-visa","cat-news-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/8558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/actualites"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/8558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12236,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/actualites\/8558\/revisions\/12236"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"raccourcis","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/raccourcis?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"related","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/related?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"cat-news","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat-news?post=8558"},{"taxonomy":"pays","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oppsup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pays?post=8558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}