{"id":35635,"date":"2018-11-21T17:50:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T17:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=35635"},"modified":"2022-04-18T17:52:40","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T17:52:40","slug":"egypt-allows-44-citizens-to-acquire-foreign-nationalities-without-retaining-egyptian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/egypt-allows-44-citizens-to-acquire-foreign-nationalities-without-retaining-egyptian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt allows 44 citizens to acquire foreign nationalities, without retaining Egyptian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Egypt&#8217;s interior ministry has approved requests by 44 Egyptians to acquire a foreign nationality without retaining their Egyptian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was published in Egypt&#8217;s official gazette on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry explained that the decision comes per the constitution and Nationality Law 26 of 1975, which regulates nationality status.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said that the individuals who received approval include those who seek to become citizens of Germany, Austria, Lithuania, Norway, The Netherlands, Kuwait, China, Taiwan, Oman and Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Article 10 of the Nationality Law stipulates that an Egyptian citizen who fails to obtain prior permission from the Ministry of Interior to acquire a foreign nationality would continue to be considered by the authorities as a citizen of Egypt.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/316674.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/316674.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Egypt&#8217;s interior ministry has approved requests by 44 Egyptians to acquire a foreign nationality without retaining their Egyptian citizenship. The decision was published in Egypt&#8217;s official gazette on Wednesday. The ministry explained that the decision comes per the constitution and Nationality Law 26 of 1975, which regulates nationality status. The ministry said that the individuals [&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-35635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-642","item-theme-dual-nationality","item-theme-loss-and-deprivation-of-nationality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635","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=35635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35636,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35635\/revisions\/35636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}