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Egypt - Apply for a Student Visa

Procedure[edit]

  • Enter to Egypt with a Student visa.
  • Register your name at the nearest neighborhood police station within the first seven days of your arrival in Egypt.
  • If you can decide to reside at AUC hostel, the resident assistant will help you with all the formalities .
  • If you reside off-campus housing, the Business Support Office can help you with this process. *Depending on where your classes are held, take your passport and your complete address written on a piece of paper to the Business Support Office in Cairo.
  • If you are American, Canadian, or an EU citizen, you are not to register upon arrival to Egypt.
  • Without an appropriate visa from the Egyptian government, you will be subject to deportation.
  • Within 30 days of arrival in Cairo, you must complete the application process to obtain a student residence visa.
     

Note:[edit]

  • The student residence visa is renewed on a semester basis
  • Non-Egyptian full-time students are entitled to University certification to obtain a student residence visa.
  • Full time status for Undergraduate, Non-degree Undergraduate is 12 credit hours.
  • As for Graduate, Non-degree Graduate is 9 credit hours.
  • If your parents are permanent residents of Egypt, you are not required to obtain a student residence visa provided that you are still a dependent of your parent.
  • If you are an Egyptian/dual national male student or your father is Egyptian, the Egyptian government recognizes you as a citizen of Egypt.
  • You are entitled to a six-month stay in Egypt as an Egyptian citizen without any military service clarifications or obligations.
  • If you exceed the six-month stay, you have to process the military service exemption for Egyptian/dual national in person otherwise you will not be allowed to leave the country until you clarify your military service status and issue the military service exemption.

Required Documents[edit]

  1. Valid passport
  2. A visa cover letter;
  3. Covering letter from School / Tertiary Institutions / University addressed to Commissioner Immigration Control Department
  4. admission letter from School / Tertiary Institutions / University;
  5. Copies of parents passports
  6. Covering letter from school to immigration department indicating year of admission and duration of study;
  7. Attach copies of parents Immigration status like work permit if parents are residents in Egypt and
  8. Parents do not live or work in Egypt, applicants should attach Letter from parent acknowledging relationship of the resident guardian and *child or student in Egypt, consent or covering letter from guardian addressed to the Commissioner Immigration Control Department.,
  9. Immigration status of host or guardian e.g. work permit or Passport.
  10. Attach identification card issued by institution of learning.

Students undertaking post graduate program should provide copies of previous academic qualifications.

  • Payment slips
  • Residential Permit
  • A recent colored passport size photo with white background.

Instructions[edit]

  • For entry to Egypt, you must obtain a Student visa from the Egyptian embassy or consulate in your home country.
  • Student visas are valid for one to 3 years , and are nonrenewable according to Egyptian Laws.
  • Every intending visitor is required to carry a genuine passport / travel document with validity beyond one year.
  • On arrival, all students are required to fill in arrival declaration cards and should comply with other immigration formalities including the provision of required biometric information;
  • Immigration authorities at the port of arrival reserve the right of admission;
  • Students pass for a specific duration is granted by the Immigration authorities on arrival to permit the holders stay in the country for the period granted in the pass;
  • Arriving students should not carry or convey substances or goods prohibited by customs;
  • Engagement in employment on basis of students pass is strictly prohibited. Offenders are prosecuted.
  • Entry should be made only through the countrys gazetted ports of entry/exit.
  • Students must comply with immigration legislation and other national laws of the country during their stay in Egypt.

for more information : https://www.wikiprocedure.com/index.php/Egypt_-_Apply_for_a_Student_Visa#:~:text=For%20entry%20to%20Egypt%2C%20you,with%20validity%20beyond%20one%20year.

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