{"id":19837,"date":"2018-09-01T14:29:36","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19837"},"modified":"2018-09-12T15:01:59","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T15:01:59","slug":"egypts-multi-million-pound-citizenship-to-foreigners-who-gets-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypts-multi-million-pound-citizenship-to-foreigners-who-gets-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s multi-million-pound citizenship to foreigners: Who gets it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"box ad-box\">\n<div class=\"content\">\n<p>By Sonia Farid<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"foot\">\n<p>By On July 16, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved a bill submitted by the government to amend citizenship laws and on August 15, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified it.<\/p>\n<p>According to the new law, foreign nationals who deposit seven million Egyptian pounds, or the equivalent in other currencies, get a five-year residency after which they apply for citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>When the naturalization process is completed and citizenship is approved by the Ministry of Interior, the deposit is to be transferred to state treasury.<\/p>\n<p>Law 26\/1975, which was amended, stipulated a residency of 10 years before applying for citizenship and did not link granting citizenship to money. These two particular amendments are what rendered the new law quite controversial and raised a lot of questions about the purpose and the timing.<\/p>\n<p>The controversy started within the House of Representatives as several MPs objected to the amendments. The most vocal was MP Haitham al-Hariri who said that the law basically offers Egyptian citizenship \u201cfor sale,\u201d a term that was met with resentment on the part of several MPs as well as the parliament speaker.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/features\/2018\/09\/01\/Egypt-s-multi-million-pound-citizenship-to-foreigners-Who-gets-it-.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/features\/2018\/09\/01\/Egypt-s-multi-million-pound-citizenship-to-foreigners-Who-gets-it-.html<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Sonia Farid By On July 16, the Egyptian House of Representatives approved a bill submitted by the government to amend citizenship laws and on August 15, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified it. According to the new law, foreign nationals who deposit seven million Egyptian pounds, or the equivalent in other currencies, get a five-year [&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-19837","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\/19837","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=19837"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19856,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19837\/revisions\/19856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}