A total of 6,200 Moroccan citizens received an order to leave the territory of a European Union country between April and June 2026. The data published by Eurostat On September 30, they place Morocco as the second nationality with the most people affected by these decisions during the quarter.
Ahead appear the citizens of Algeria, with 10,390 peoplewhile those of Syria, with 5,180occupy third position. The figures correspond to all Member States and do not mean that all these people have been effectively expelled.
The statistics differentiate between those who receive an exit order and those who subsequently return to a country outside the EU. This distinction allows us to separate the decisions made by the authorities from the exits that occur.
France concentrates the largest number of exit orders
In the European Union as a whole, 110,335 citizens of non-EU countries They received an order to leave the territory during the second quarter of the year. The volume represents a 12% decrease compared to the same period in 2025.
France was the Member State that registered the most affected people, with 32,420ahead of Portugal and Germany. This distribution includes all non-EU nationalities, so it should not be interpreted as a classification of the countries that issued the most orders against Moroccan citizens.
Morocco’s weight in the European total was 5.6%. In addition, the number of its citizens who received an order to leave dropped by 5.1% compared to the first quarter of 2026.
Returns rise despite falling orders
The evolution of returns was different. Between April and June, 36,825 people returned to non-EU countries after an exit ordera 9.7% more than a year before.
Germany headed this section, with 8,400 peoplefollowed by France and Poland. By nationality, the largest groups were citizens of Türkiye, with 3,765Syria, with 2,770, and Georgia, with 2,140.
These returns are not equivalent in all cases to forced expulsions. According to Eurostat, the 60.8% were volunteers and the 39.2% forced.
Why can’t both totals be directly compared?
Eurostat warns that a person may be ordered to leave a country in one quarter and return in a later quarter. For this reason, dividing returns between orders from the same period does not allow us to know what percentage of those specific decisions have been executed.
In the case of the 6,200 Moroccansthe data proves that they received an exit order between April and June. It does not indicate how many of them had left the territory at the end of those three months.