{"id":25539,"date":"2019-06-10T16:50:43","date_gmt":"2019-06-10T16:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=25539"},"modified":"2019-12-06T16:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T16:51:58","slug":"egypts-amended-nationality-law-grants-foreigners-citizenship-under-new-conditions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypts-amended-nationality-law-grants-foreigners-citizenship-under-new-conditions\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s amended nationality law grants foreigners citizenship under new conditions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The National Defense and Security Committee of the House of Representatives on Sunday approved a bill amending the Nationality Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Chairman of the committee, Major General Kamal Amer said that these amendments aim at granting citizenship in exchange for investments, which will have a positive impact towards achieving economic development and national security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The amendments, he added, specify conditions for granting citizenship and stipulate the prime minister\u2019s approval to grant citizenship towards every foreigner who buys property, establishes investment projects, or make a deposit in foreign currency.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">A unit from the Cabinet will examine requests to acquire the Egyptian citizenship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The new citizen has to pay US$10,000 in return, according to Amer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The current law, No. 173 of 2018, authorizes the Minister of the Interior to grant nationality to a foreigner who has been residing in Egypt for five consecutive years and made a deposit of not less than LE7 million. The deposit is owned by the state if the foreigner\u2019s request is approved.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/perma.cc\/6MB7-RNY3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/perma.cc\/6MB7-RNY3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Defense and Security Committee of the House of Representatives on Sunday approved a bill amending the Nationality Law. Chairman of the committee, Major General Kamal Amer said that these amendments aim at granting citizenship in exchange for investments, which will have a positive impact towards achieving economic development and national security. The amendments, [&hellip;]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-660","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25539","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=25539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25540,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25539\/revisions\/25540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}