Citizenship at birth through parentage or foundling status

A person is Egyptian at birth when born to an Egyptian father or mother. A person born in Egypt of unknown parents, including a foundling presumed born in Egypt, is also Egyptian. Birth in Egypt alone to identified foreign parents is not general jus soli.

Sources: Egyptian Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975 · Egypt Law No. 154 of 2004 amending the Nationality Law

Naturalization as the spouse of a citizen

The foreign wife of an Egyptian may acquire nationality by declaration once the marriage has lasted two years.

Sources: Egyptian Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975

Egyptian nationality through an Egyptian parent

A person born of an Egyptian father or an Egyptian mother is Egyptian under Law No. 26 of 1975 as equalized by Law No. 154 of 2004.

Sources: Egyptian Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975 · Egypt Law No. 154 of 2004 amending the Nationality Law

Egyptian citizenship through investment programmes

The Prime Minister's citizenship unit administers direct routes through a non-refundable contribution, property, an investment project or a central-bank deposit. No multi-year residence period is required before the investment programme grant.

Sources: Egyptian Cabinet — Citizenship through Investment Programmes · GAFI — Unit for Granting Egyptian Citizenship in Exchange for Investment

Ordinary naturalization after ten consecutive years

Under Article 4 of Law No. 26 of 1975, a foreign adult may seek discretionary Egyptian nationality after ten consecutive years of normal legal residence in Egypt, with Arabic-language, means and character review by the Minister of Interior.

estimated, not read from law — Residence eligibility is not an automatic grant. Shorter statutory routes exist for some Egyptian-origin and other special categories, and investment/property pathways are modeled separately; those are not collapsed into this ordinary record.

Sources: Egyptian Nationality Law No. 26 of 1975