“It is dehumanising, humiliating, and racist,” said Samia, a 47-year-old Moroccan as she spoke to The New Arab on the process of getting a student visa to France for her 18-year-old daughter. On an early Wednesday morning, dozens of parents and students stand waiting in front of the TLS contact Visa centre: the portal to “the promised land.” Applying for a student visa to France is a tiring bureaucratic process that debuts at high school, and an investment that parents consider since the first months of marriage. After receiving an acceptance letter from the chosen university, the applicant mu…