{"id":19400,"date":"2018-07-16T22:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19400"},"modified":"2018-07-18T22:02:31","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T22:02:31","slug":"egypt-is-going-to-offer-citizenship-to-foreigners-for-a-400000-deposit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-is-going-to-offer-citizenship-to-foreigners-for-a-400000-deposit\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt is going to offer citizenship to foreigners for a $400,000 deposit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Egypt\u00a0<\/span>is offering citizenship to foreigners who deposit at least seven million<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Egypt<\/span>ian 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><span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Egypt\u00a0<\/span>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 IMF loan programme it began in late 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Under the new law, foreigners who make a deposit of seven million<span data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">\u00a0Egypt<\/span>ian 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:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/egypt-offer-citizenship-foreigners-400000-deposit-757624522\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.middleeasteye.net\/news\/egypt-offer-citizenship-foreigners-400000-deposit-757624522<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt\u00a0is offering citizenship to foreigners who deposit at least seven million\u00a0Egyptian pounds ($392,000) and then hand it over to the Treasury after five years, an amendment passed by parliament on Monday said. Egypt\u00a0has been looking to boost its finances and draw back foreign investment that fled the country after its 2011 uprising, notably through a [&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-19400","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\/19400","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=19400"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19401,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19400\/revisions\/19401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}