{"id":19844,"date":"2018-08-17T14:54:25","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T14:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=19844"},"modified":"2018-09-12T14:56:05","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T14:56:05","slug":"egypt-sisi-approves-law-on-granting-citizenship-to-foreigners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-sisi-approves-law-on-granting-citizenship-to-foreigners\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Sisi Approves Law on Granting Citizenship to Foreigners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Egyptian gazette published on Thursday a decree signed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who approved the amendment of some articles in the law on the entry and exit of foreigners and the naturalization law.<\/p>\n<p>Last July, Egypt&#8217;s parliament passed a bill to grant citizenship to foreigners who deposit at least EGP7 million (around $400,000) in the country for five years.<\/p>\n<p>If the Interior Ministry accepts an applicant&#8217;s naturalization request, the deposit will then be transferred to the Treasury to boost the country\u2019s economy.<\/p>\n<p>Read further:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/aawsat.com\/english\/home\/article\/1365811\/egypt-sisi-approves-law-granting-citizenship-foreigners\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/aawsat.com\/english\/home\/article\/1365811\/egypt-sisi-approves-law-granting-citizenship-foreigners<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Egyptian gazette published on Thursday a decree signed by President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi who approved the amendment of some articles in the law on the entry and exit of foreigners and the naturalization law. Last July, Egypt&#8217;s parliament passed a bill to grant citizenship to foreigners who deposit at least EGP7 million (around $400,000) [&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-19844","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\/19844","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=19844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19845,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19844\/revisions\/19845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}