Egypt · Residency by investment

Deposit Residency (Law 173/2018)

Closed Last verified July 2026

Superseded. Law 173/2018 allowed an EGP 7m deposit (roughly USD 391k at the time) to buy five-year residency, with citizenship possible after five consecutive years of residence. It was replaced by Law 190 of 2019, which created the direct citizenship-by-investment route with no residency period at all — launched March 2020.

This programme is closed. We keep the page up because agents still advertise it and clients still ask. Nothing below is available to new applicants.

Worth recording because it shows the direction of travel: Egypt abandoned a five-year residency-then-citizenship model in favour of selling citizenship outright, and then cut the price by two thirds in 2023. The pricing history is the best available evidence of how badly the state wants the dollars.

Qualifying routes

$391k
EGP 7m deposit (historic)

roughly USD 391k at 2018 rates; five-year residency then citizenship after five years — no longer available

The facts

Minimum investment
$391k
Total landed cost
Not applicable — superseded
Physical presence
not applicable
Permanent residency
not applicable
Citizenship
not applicable — replaced by the direct CBI route under Law 190/2019
Language test
not applicable
Dual citizenship
Permitted
What can go wrong
  • Closed — superseded by Law 190/2019.
  • The EGP 7m denomination is itself instructive: a deposit fixed in local currency lost most of its dollar value during the programme's life.
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