Mauritanian Embassy | Consulate / Embassy

Knock at the main gate if it's not open (not the side door that says Visas). You'll go around, outside left, to a series of offices and the rather stern woman handling visas is the second door. Three doors further to the left is a waiting room but you're better off making your presence known at the visa office. The woman told us we should get visas at the border instead and seemed annoyed when we wanted to get them in Rabat. She insisted on a printout of a hotel reservation (make sure it includes the name of everyone hoping for a visa). There is a stationery store in the nearby Carrefour you can print for 1 MAD per page. Also need one passport photo and one copy of passport. You do not need to leave the passport while visa is in process. There was a half mauritanian fixer-type fellow waiting outside who guided us to the print shop and bank and directed us to the right offices at the embassy - he was friendly and didn't expect much (it's not totally clear what his main business was, and he was there when we came back to get the visa the next business day). After you complete the dossier with the visa officer, you get a slip that you take to the BMCE bank beside the Carrefour and pay 524 MAD (Canadian, Chinese, USA citizens at least).Bring the receipt back to the embassy and this time turn right inside the gate to the accounts or "quittance" guy. He in turn gives you the quittance form that says you paid. Bring that to the woman who takes your photo and fingerprints, gives you a receipt and voila, show up the next day. It's a bit chaotic, lots of waiting, zero guidance, people work then disappear. But even with us running out to print the reservation, we were only there all told just over 2 hrs, and another 45 mins or so the next business day to collect.

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Arrived at the embassy just to find out information regarding Visa and they told straight forward it will take some days to make it and more expensive in embassy, so they recommended go straight to the border without Visa it will be cheaper and faster!

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dont make your visa here! 600 dirham and too many papers! it is cheaper (55€) and quicker (some hours) at the border marocco-mauritania.

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- Mauritanius Embassy in Rabat 28 April 2017 for Dutch residents.
You can enter the embassy one by one and will receive a form there.
Also; if you need to print or photocopy documents, there are 'cyber' shops all around town. Just ask around!

They will need
- 2 passport photos
- 1 passportcopy

Upon receiving those they will hand you a receipt with which you go to the BCME bank at the end of the street to pay 690 DHM per person(non residents and non arabs). The price went up since January 2017.

Once you paid at the bank, fill out the form and return to the embassy.
- We made a reservation for a hotel via booking.com for which you can choose a hotel that does not need a creditcard confirmation and has free annulation. We filled in the address on the form and no further questions were asked.
There are 2 doors, the second door has a fence around it; you will need to get your bank receipt checked and stamped there before you can enter the first door one by one again.

Inside they will check all the papers, scan your fingerprints, make a profile picture and they will give you a receipt on which the date and time is stated for the pick up of your visa( with us a day after but when we arrived a day after and waited in the line for 1.5 hours before we entered; they took our receipt and crossed out the original date and changed it into a week after on Friday 4 PM so we returned only to find out the embassy closed at 12 noon on Friday! So save yourself waiting in line and just show up a week after and not on a Friday!).

They will not keep your passport, so you can arrange more visas that day, if needed.
We arranged this visa in Rabat to avoid the hasse and rip off at the border for a 7 day transit visa.

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One month visa cost 140€ applications after 9am Monday to Thursday. You need copy of passport application form, only in French and Arabic, two passport photos. Leave one day collect the next afternoon, one day service no longer provided. I was told to come back at 12 pm following day and waited until 2.15 to collect along with eight other people. As it was a Friday they were going to close at 2 pm to attend Mosque and gate guy said to come back Monday. Fortunately the Arab speaking others who were waiting made a BIG fuss and they finally processed us all in about five minutes. Get a one month visa for Mali at a Embassy just across the road and up one block, cost 24€ and takes one hour. Need application form two photos and hard copy of hotel booking.

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