Rabat - The number of accepted requests to regularize the administrative situation of illegal foreigners in Morocco reached 5,742, that is 32% of the registered requests, according to provisional results of the extraordinary operation of regularization.
The number of accepted regularization requests reached 3,075 requests for men against 2,667 for women, according to data presented on Wednesday by representative of the interior ministry Mohamed Youssef during a meeting on the new national immigration and asylum policy, organized by the ministry in charge of Moroccan expats and immigration affairs, in collaboration with the inter-ministerial delegation for human rights and the National Council for Human Rights.
The data show that registered requests reached on Sept. 9 around 17,757 requests made by citizens from 101 foreign countries, including 5,488 women.
Concerning asylum requests, director of consular affairs at the foreign affairs ministry Mustapha El Bouazzaoui said that 549 requests were accepted, including 168 requests made by women and 134 by minors.
The first phase of granting refugees cards concerned 21 nationalities, including 47.8% from Côte d'Ivoire, 23.3% from Iraq, 6.31% from Palestine, while women represented 30.32% of people recognized as refugees until July 2014.