citizenship
Passports for purchase: Open citizenship doors around the world
Travel
October 17, 2017
Passports for purchase: Open citizenship doors around the world
Turns out money doesn’t just buy a glamorous vacation in the Caribbean or a killer suite in Quebec — it…
Debating Egypt’s Nationality Law: Invest in Egypt, become an Egyptian
Egypt
May 3, 2017
Debating Egypt’s Nationality Law: Invest in Egypt, become an Egyptian
The new bill to amend the Nationality Law, recently approved by the parliamentary National Defense and Security Committee, which would…
MPs refuse to consider bill offering citizenship in return for dollars
Egypt
August 4, 2016
MPs refuse to consider bill offering citizenship in return for dollars
Seventy MPs have announced their outright rejection of a bill submitted to parliament by MP Mahmoud Attia granting Egyptian nationality…
Bahrain strips top Shi’ite Muslim cleric of citizenship
Middle East
June 21, 2016
Bahrain strips top Shi’ite Muslim cleric of citizenship
Bahrain has revoked the citizenship of the spiritual leader of the kingdom's Shi'ite Muslim majority, the state news agency reported…
Egyptians winning emigration approval up by 17.4%
Egypt
July 6, 2015
Egyptians winning emigration approval up by 17.4%
The number of Egyptians who had won official approvals to migrate abroad moved up by 17.4 percent during 2014, according…
Court postpones Erdogan’s son denaturalization lawsuit
Egypt
May 25, 2015
Court postpones Erdogan’s son denaturalization lawsuit
Cairo’s Administrative Court postponed a lawsuit demanding Egyptian citizenship be withdrawn from the son of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan…
Egypt revokes a man’s citizenship after he obtained Israeli citizenship
Egypt
May 13, 2015
Egypt revokes a man’s citizenship after he obtained Israeli citizenship
Egypt's premier renounced on Wednesday the citizenship of a man who gained Israeli citizenship, without prior permission from Egyptian authorities,…
PM strips Hamas officer of Egyptian citizenship
Egypt
April 15, 2015
PM strips Hamas officer of Egyptian citizenship
Prime Minister Ibrahim Mehleb has decided to strip an officer from the Palestinian militant faction Hamas of his Egyptian citizenship,…
Report: Relinquishing the Egyptian passport
Egypt
March 10, 2015
Report: Relinquishing the Egyptian passport
Egyptians' sense of belonging to the homeland has changed.
Egyptian nationality stripped from 800, including Palestinians
Egypt
October 29, 2014
Egyptian nationality stripped from 800, including Palestinians
A commission formed by the Cabinet to review pardons and citizenships granted by former president Mohamed Morsy to foreigners has…