Egypt · Residency by investment
Residence by Property Purchase
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Last verified July 2026
Established by 2023 Prime Ministerial decrees and Ministry of Interior Decision No. 977 of 2023. Tiered by investment size. There is no permanent residency in Egypt. The permit is renewable indefinitely, but it never converts to permanent status.
Cheap, and largely pointless for a UHNW family. It buys a renewable permit in a jurisdiction that offers no permanent status and no citizenship path from it. That makes it a lifestyle convenience for someone who already wants a Red Sea property, not a status strategy.
Qualifying routes
$50k
Entry tier
1-year renewable residence
$100k
Mid tier
3-year residence
$200k
Upper tier
5-year residence
The facts
- Minimum investment
- $50k
- Total landed cost
- USD 50k-200k in property plus transaction costs and modest official fees
- Route type
- Residency by investment
- Timeline
- 2–6 months (no reliable published service standard)
- Physical presence
- None prescribed
- Family
- SpouseDependent children
- Permanent residency
- None. Egypt does not offer permanent residency through property. The permit renews while the investment is maintained and stops when it is not.
- Citizenship
- Not via this route. Egypt's citizenship route is the separate USD 250k+ CBI programme, which does not require prior residency.
- Language test
- Not applicable
- Dual citizenship
- Permitted
- Requirements
- Property purchase at the relevant tierFunds transferred from abroad in hard currencyEgyptian bank accountValid passportClean record
What can go wrong
- It leads nowhere. No permanent residency exists in Egypt, and this permit does not shorten or feed the CBI route.
- Status dies with the asset. Sell the property, and the permit goes with it.
- Same rules as the CBI property route: two properties, a 4,000 sqm cap, and a five-year resale bar.
- Egyptian property is EGP-denominated in economic substance. Hard-currency returns have been poor throughout the devaluation cycle.
- Thresholds were set by decree. They can be changed by decree, too.