Mauritanian Visa in Rabat

Current as of June 21, 2012. The visa section of the embassy only takes visa applications from 9AM until 11AM. If you are on line and haven't been seen by then, you will be asked to come back again. This was told me by regulars. I arrived at 7:45 and had 20 people in front of me but the line went quickly.

You CANNOT get a visa at the border. Even Moroccans living in the Western Sahara have to go north to go south.

You must leave your passport with them and return at 2:30 the next day. Prior posters have mentioned that everyone gets a month regardless and that it generally starts the day you pick it up. What I saw was a roulette wheel. Three Spaniards (2 West Africans originally) where given 1 month, 2 weeks, and 7 days even though 2 worked together and had asked for multiple entries. There dates started immediately. I, an American, asked to start on June 28 and was given a start date of June 26.

So, for Americans wondering, they do issue us visas, but remember it's a roulette wheel and that might change again