{"id":38621,"date":"2023-05-31T08:33:08","date_gmt":"2023-05-31T08:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=38621"},"modified":"2023-06-02T08:38:51","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T08:38:51","slug":"president-sisi-ratifies-amendments-to-grant-equal-rights-to-egyptian-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/president-sisi-ratifies-amendments-to-grant-equal-rights-to-egyptian-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"President Sisi ratifies amendments to grant equal rights to Egyptian citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aya Salah<\/p>\n<p>President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified amendments to the Egyptian Nationality Law of 1975, allowing foreign minors born in Egypt to either a man or a woman born in the country or with an Egyptian origin to acquire citizenship<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/News\/495702.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">amendments<\/a>, approved by the House of Representatives, were\u00a0published in\u00a0the official gazette on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The amendments\u00a0allow foreign adults born in Egypt to either a father or mother of Egyptian origins to acquire Egyptian citizenship after establishing regular residence there.<\/p>\n<p>They also\u00a0allow foreign minors\u00a0born in Egypt to either a foreign man or a foreign woman born in Egypt and hailed\u00a0from an Arab-speaking or\u00a0Muslim country to acquire Egyptian citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContentP\/1\/502079\/Egypt\/President-Sisi-ratifies-amendments-to-grant-equal-.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/english.ahram.org.eg\/NewsContentP\/1\/502079\/Egypt\/President-Sisi-ratifies-amendments-to-grant-equal-.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aya Salah President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi has ratified amendments to the Egyptian Nationality Law of 1975, allowing foreign minors born in Egypt to either a man or a woman born in the country or with an Egyptian origin to acquire citizenship The\u00a0amendments, approved by the House of Representatives, were\u00a0published in\u00a0the official gazette on Wednesday. The amendments\u00a0allow [&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-38621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","region-egypt","type-news-articles","item-year-691","item-theme-acquisition-by-children","item-theme-discrimination","item-theme-gender","item-theme-naturalisation-and-marriage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38621","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=38621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38622,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38621\/revisions\/38622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}