Egypt Investor Visa

No figure is published for this route, and Egypt's official state real-estate platform explains why in the present continuous.

Under Residency and Visa Considerations the page states that some updates allow foreigners who invest a minimum amount, including real estate, to apply for long-term or renewable residence permits, without printing what that minimum is.

It closes the passage with the government is working on legislation to ease residency for foreign investors.

The full text of the page confirms it: the page prints no dollar sign, and none of the four round figures common to comparable routes — 50,000, 100,000, 200,000 and 400,000.

That absence is not a page shy of legal detail, because the same page sets out the ownership frame in precise numbers.

Law No. 230 of 1996 governs property ownership by foreigners, and Law No. 143 of 1981 governs desert and agricultural land.

A foreigner may own at most two properties across Egypt, with each not exceeding four thousand square metres. In Sinai foreigners may take only leasehold, typically ninety-nine years, renewable.

The page publishes figures when official data exists.

One thing must also be said plainly: neither of the two sources this record relies on — the state real-estate platform and the e-Visa portal's FAQ — names a 2023 Prime Minister's decree, and the e-Visa FAQ is silent on residence, property, owner and decree.

Egypt's official state real-estate platform states plainly the opposite of the common framing: owning property in Egypt does not automatically grant residency.

The opening sentence of the guide's Residency and Visa section reads that owning property does not automatically grant residency, but it may support visa extensions.

The two limbs must be read together, because the second is exactly where the “buy a home, get residency” line takes hold.

On what does exist, the guide uses markedly cautious wording and that caution is preserved here rather than tightened: foreigners who invest a minimum amount, including through real estate, may under some updates apply for long-term or renewable residence permits.

A right to apply, not a right to receive, and the minimum amount is not given as a figure here.

What the guide describes as the current position is more modest still: tourist visas can be extended up to five years under some conditions.

And the section's closing sentence is the one that matters most to a reader weighing the route: legislation to ease residency for foreign investors is still being prepared by the government — meaning that as at the page's update the legal framework for this route was still forming rather than settled.

One non-migration consequence belongs alongside: Egypt applies Sharia-based inheritance law to all residents including foreigners, so property bought here falls under that regime unless a valid will is in place.

The only time figure the authority publishes does not belong to this route, and that distinction is the whole of this cell.

Under Residency and Visa Considerations, Egypt's official state real-estate platform states that currently, tourist visas can be extended up to five years under some conditions — a limit belonging to the tourist visa, not a term for a residence permit held by a property owner.

On that permit itself the page says only that some updates allow an application for long-term or renewable residence permits, and prints no term at all: no number of years, no renewal period, no processing time.

The sentence closing the passage explains why: the government is still preparing legislation to ease residency for foreign investors.

One further term appears on the same page and also does not belong to this route, but is worth recording so the two are not confused: foreign ownership across most of Egypt is freehold, while in Sinai foreign buyers are limited to leasehold, typically of ninety-nine years and renewable.

That is the term of a right over land, not of a right of residence.

The residence conditions for this route are not yet settled, and Egypt's state real-estate platform says so in the future tense. On residence, the page states that owning property in Egypt does not automatically grant residency, though it may support visa extensions.

That some updates allow foreigners who invest a minimum amount, real estate included, to apply for long-term or renewable residence permits — without naming what that minimum is.

That tourist visas can be extended up to five years under some conditions; and that legislation easing residency for foreign investors is being drafted by the government.

That last sentence is the most important in this cell: as at the verification date, the residence framework for property owners is still being drafted. What is settled, and genuinely binding, is the ownership condition, and it sets five limits: a foreigner may own at most two properties across Egypt.

The area of each property may not exceed four thousand square metres. The property must be used for residential purposes only; ownership is not allowed in strategic or military zones, and some coastal land requires presidential approval; and resale is restricted for five years from the date of registration, in most cases.

The Sinai Peninsula carries one further limit: foreign ownership there is confined to ninety-nine-year leaseholds unless the buyer holds Egyptian nationality or is married to an Egyptian citizen.

This cell must be read for what its source is: a legal guide on the state's real-estate platform, not an instrument of the residence authority, and one that itself uses the words may and in most cases.

No provision on family members is published for this route, and how that silence is distributed across the page is what repays reading. The legal guide on Egypt's official state real-estate platform does not mention children, family or dependants.

The spouse is mentioned only in an entirely different section: Inheritance and Estate Planning advises a buyer to consider joint ownership with the spouse — advice about a property right, not a derived right of residence.

The page's entire Residency and Visa Considerations passage is written in the singular applicant and opens no accompanying class at all.

This is a structural silence rather than an omission, because the same page states that owning property does not automatically grant residency and that the government is drafting legislation to ease residency for foreign investors — where no closed residence route yet exists, there is no dependant class to describe.

The record's other source cannot fill the gap either: the e-Visa portal's FAQ does not mention residence, property, owner or dependant.

The status this programme grants, whether a visa or a residence permit, does not replace the holder's passport. The holder still travels on the passport of their own country, so the figure below belongs to the Egypt passport and becomes the holder's only once they are issued a Egypt passport.

According to the Passport Index of Prosperous Intelligence, on data dated 30 September 2026, the Egypt passport reaches 43 destinations without applying for a consular visa in advance. The figure combines three forms of entry and does not count an e-Visa that must be obtained beforehand:

It is therefore a measure of how easily the holder travels, not a count of visa-free countries in the narrow sense.

For comparison, on the same source and the same method of counting, the Vietnamese passport reaches 44 destinations. The two lists of destinations do not nest inside one another, so the difference is an indication rather than a list of places newly opened.

Prosperous Intelligence dates its data and advises checking with the destination’s official authorities before travelling.

Material from the authority that issues residence permits, the Egyptian Ministry of Interior, has not been verified at the official source.

The government source that could be checked is the national real estate platform, and it describes the ownership framework as Law 230 of 1996 together with Law 143 of 1981 rather than any distinct investor visa programme.

A foreigner may own at most two properties, each no larger than 4,000 square metres, for residential use only and not in strategic or military areas. In most cases the owner may not resell within five years of registration.

On tax, the page states only a registration fee of approximately 1 to 3 percent of value and stamp duty below 0.5 percent, then says that Egypt does not levy an annual property tax on residential property owned by foreigners in most circumstances, but that rental income, where it arises, is subject to income tax under Egyptian law.

Two things must travel with any quotation.

First, each of those propositions carries a hedge, namely approximately, in most circumstances and often, so this is editorial writing on a government domain rather than a legal provision.

Second, the same page states that the government is developing legislation to broaden residence for foreign investors, and speaks only of tourist visas being extendable to five years under certain conditions. This source therefore does not confirm that a property-based residence regime is in operation.

No cost for this route is published by the authority, and the very page that does publish prices shows why.

The authority named on this record is the Egyptian Ministry of Interior's electronic visa portal, and that portal does publish prices: the “Types of visa and fees” section of its FAQ prints a complete price list.

That list contains exactly one type — the tourism visa — at thirty US dollars for single entry and sixty-five US dollars for multiple entries.

Not one line concerns residence, and not one line concerns property owners. The portal is therefore not a place that conceals prices; it simply has no such route to price.

That reading is consistent with the shape of the portal itself: its entire navigation is a home page, an About Egypt page, how to apply, a disclaimer, an FAQ, contact details and terms of use, plus sign-in and sign-up, all leading into a single funnel for applying online for a tourist visa.

The Ministry of Interior site, where an instrument fixing a fee for the residence route might sit, has not been checked.

This cell therefore records only what was read at the portal that does publish prices, and makes no guess about a fee that may sit in a text that has not been checked.