{"id":21669,"date":"2018-08-27T21:34:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/?p=21669"},"modified":"2019-01-21T21:36:45","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T21:36:45","slug":"egypt-president-ratifies-law-amending-residency-and-citizenship-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/egypt-president-ratifies-law-amending-residency-and-citizenship-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: President Ratifies Law Amending Residency and Citizenship Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Aug. 27, 2018) On August 14, 2018, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified Law No. 173 of 2018, which allows foreign nationals who deposit at least 7 million Egyptian pounds (EGP) (about US$391,000) in local Egyptian banks to be granted a five-year residency and the opportunity to apply for Egyptian citizenship. (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1E_kycxnIJ82eGiNwc0_N_guMNd53O9_E\/view\">Law No. 173 Amending Law No. 26 of 1975 and Law No. 89 of 1960<\/a>, AL-JARIDAH AL-RASMIYYAH [OFFICIAL GAZETTE], vol. 32 (Duplicate (b)), 14 Aug. 2018 (in Arabic).)<\/p>\n<p>Law No. 173 amends Law No. 26 of 1975 on Citizenship and Law No. 89 of 1960 on the Entry and Exit of Foreigners. Article 1 of the new Law amends article 17 of Law No. 89, which regulates the residency of foreigners. (<em>Id.<\/em> art. 1.) The new law also adds a new category of residency for foreigners, called \u201cdeposit residency.\u201d In addition, article 2 of Law No. 173 adds a new article (article 20 duplicate) to Law No. 89, which stipulates that foreigners who deposit at least EGP7 million or the equivalent in foreign currency at a state-run Egyptian bank are eligible to apply for a new type of residency permit. (<em>Id.<\/em> art. 2.)<\/p>\n<p>Article 3 of Law No. 173 adds article 4 duplicate to Law No. 26 of 1975. Article 4 duplicate provides that Egyptian citizenship may be granted to all foreigners who have lived in Egypt under a \u201cdeposit residency\u201d for at least five consecutive years prior to applying for Egyptian citizenship. Those foreigners must also meet all other requirements of citizenship under Law No. 26. (<em>Id.<\/em> art. 3.)<\/p>\n<p>Read further: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/foreign-news\/article\/egypt-president-ratifies-law-amending-residency-and-citizenship-laws\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/foreign-news\/article\/egypt-president-ratifies-law-amending-residency-and-citizenship-laws\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Aug. 27, 2018) On August 14, 2018, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ratified Law No. 173 of 2018, which allows foreign nationals who deposit at least 7 million Egyptian pounds (EGP) (about US$391,000) in local Egyptian banks to be granted a five-year residency and the opportunity to apply for Egyptian citizenship. (Law No. 173 Amending [&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":[499,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-classifiee","category-uncategorized","region-egypte","type-articles-de-presse","item-year-642","item-theme-acquisition-de-la-nationalite","item-theme-naturalisation-et-le-mariage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21670,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21669\/revisions\/21670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citizenshiprightsafrica.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}