{"id":19283,"date":"2018-07-17T17:02:12","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:02:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19283"},"modified":"2018-07-17T17:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T17:02:12","slug":"egypts-citizenship-for-sale-to-foreigners-at-400000","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypts-citizenship-for-sale-to-foreigners-at-400000\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s citizenship for sale to foreigners at $400,000"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"td-post-author-name\">\n<div class=\"td-author-by\">By Yvonne Rarieya<\/div>\n<div class=\"td-author-by\">\n<p>Foreigners interested in Egyptian citizenship will deposit at least 7 million Egyptian pounds ($392,000) and then hand it over to the Treasury after five years, an amendment passed by parliament on Monday said.<\/p>\n<p>Egypt has been looking to boost its finances and draw back foreign investment that fled the country after its 2011 uprising, notably through a series of tough reforms tied to a $12 billion\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">IMF<\/span>\u00a0loan programme it began in late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, foreigners who make a deposit of 7 million Egyptian pounds or the equivalent in foreign currency receive the option of taking citizenship if they surrender the deposit after five years.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/africa.cgtn.com\/2018\/07\/17\/egypts-citizenship-for-sale-to-foreigners-at-400000\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/africa.cgtn.com\/2018\/07\/17\/egypts-citizenship-for-sale-to-foreigners-at-400000\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Yvonne Rarieya Foreigners interested in Egyptian citizenship will deposit at least 7 million Egyptian pounds ($392,000) and then hand it over to the Treasury after five years, an amendment passed by parliament on Monday said. Egypt has been looking to boost its finances and draw back foreign investment that fled the country after its [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19283\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}