Morocco Overland ~ Documents
UPDATED July 2010
Your documents
To enter Morocco with a vehicle all you need is a passport (most visitors don't need a visa), your vehicle ownership document (V5 in the UK) and, if you can get it, motor insurance covering Morocco. If you can't get insurance at home you can get it at most Moroccoan ports or towns, see below.
Immigration procedures
Simple and straightforward and sometimes done on the ferry on Moroccan-run ships to Moroccan ports (ie: Tangier or less often the much quieter port of Nador) to speed things up. On the Spanish side at Ceuta you'll see 'helpers' offering to do the queing or form filling for you. They are not out to trick you unless you make it easy; they're just looking for a tip at the end of it, but aren't needed if you go ahead as follows:
• Fill out an immigration card (sometimes handed out when buying your ticket in Spain, or found on the ferry information counter, or ask at the police post or handed out by border touts looking for a tip). The form is in French with English subtext.
Under 'going to' write any big Moroccan town like Fez or Marrakech; for 'coming from' put the European port you've just arrived from (Algeciras, Almeria, etc).
For an 'address in Morocco' any hotel or camping in any well kown town will do. Pick one from your guidebook.
Do not fill out the back of the form. Hand it in to the police, get your passport stamped and have a 'CIN' number allocated and also stamped in your passport (unless you have one from a previous visit).
• Get a triplicate TVIP for you vehicle/s (see below).
• Show your 'green card' motor insurance extention for Morocco (if obtainable) or buy local insurance (assurance frontiere, in French) at some ports or from any participating insurance broker at the first big town (ask/look for 'bureau d'assurance').
Last I heard the fixed cost and time periods are 558dh for 10 days or 876dh a month for a car or bike. Motorhomes pay more. At the new Tangier Med or the Beni Enzar (Nador) ports, the insurance booths are in the port facility. Beni Enzar they may be unoccupied but with a phone number to ring. See link.
• There's an optional new form in French, the 'Constat Amiable' now available to fill out in the event of a road traffic accident. You fill it out, the other party fills out their half and you send it off. More details and a pdf copy here. Or download one here.
• That's it!
Temporary vehicle importation document: 'TVIP' or 'D16'
Aboard the ferry (on longer crossings), or in the Moroccan port of arrival you need to find the Customs office and get the triplicate white, green and yellow A5-sized ‘TVIP’ form titled in French: Declaration D’Admission Temporaire de Moyens de Transport (‘Temporary Importation Declaration of [means of] Transport).
This is a local version to the Carnet de Passage which Morocco thankfully does not require. It declares you’ll re-export your vehicle once you leave Morocco and is valid for 6 months.
You will need your vehicle ownership document ('V5' in the UK, carte gris in French). It's the 'passport' for your vehicle.
Completing a D16 in advance, online
Using the exact combination of a PC with Internet Explorer (as opposed any other browser or any Mac) it's possible to fill out a version of the TVIP online before you get to Morocco, but only if you are entering with one vehicle in your name (as most do). If you have say, your pickup with your bike or quad in the back, do the triplicate version at the border as detailed above. All your vehciles will need to go on one TVIP form and be linked to one passport. This online version does not work for multiple vehicles with the same owner.
Whether you fill it out in advance, or the triplicate white, green and yellow version while queuing at a Customs desk on a ferry or in a Moroccan port doesn’t really matter, [with one vehicle in your name] it's just one less thing to worry about.
So, click this link to the Moroccan Customs website to fill out your TVIP 'D16' form in advance.
On the above webpage click option three:
Admission temporaire des véhicules (D16TER)
then click the second option:
Saisie et Edition de la déclaration d'admission temporaire D16ter
Now fill out the following details:
• Prénom et Nom: Your forename and surname. 
• CIN: If you have one stamped in your passport from a previous visit (example right) enter it. If not click Étrangers non résidant or autres (‘other’).
• Immatriculation: Your vehicle’s registration number with no spaces.
• Marque: Pick one from the menu. Along with many unknown marques, some bike marques are not listed so select ‘autre’ at the end. For Land Rover select 'Rover'.
• Modèle: For example ‘Defender 300Tdi’ or ‘F800GS’ followed by 'MOTO' if it’s a bike.
• Genre: Select Tourisme.
• Pays: Select your country.
• Date de 1ère mise en circulation: Your vehicle’s date of first registration, found on the ownership document or V5 in the UK.
• Châssis n°: Your VIN (vehicle identity number) also found on the ownership document.
Then press Imprimer (print). Your D16 appears with all your information formatted in between French and Arabic translations, as well as a couple of bar codes. If it all looks correct then print the page. Although 3 copies which are required come out, you may as well print out an extra set. Don’t forget to sign each in the bottom left hand corner.
Form for checkpoints in Western Sahara
Download this blank Word.doc template of a fiche or form to fill out with your details. Hand them out to speed up passage through the many permanent checkpoints in Western Saharan (south of Tan-Tan and Assa), particularly if heading down the Atlantic Route to Mauritania.
They can also be handed over instead of your passport at hotels in 'mainland' northern Morocco who ask to copy down your details. Up here the checkpoints are usually temporary ans won't require your fiche or details.
There are 4 fiches to a page. For a transit of the Atlantic Route you'll want at least 3 pages.
