Residence and work permit: what to check first

A tourist visa is not a work permit

This is a reading of public pages. It is not legal advice and it is not a Wang Fu price. Figures, fees, and documents follow the linked page on the day you open it.

The site tools already put this sequence together from public pages: the e-visa and visa on arrival are tourist visas. A work permit comes before working for pay in Egypt.

The employer files with GAFI’s Investor Service Center (for companies under the investment law) or with the labour authority. The ratio copied from that GAFI page is: foreign staff are generally within 10% of the workforce, and up to 20% when no suitable local candidate is available. Read the page itself:

gafi.gov.eg/en/contenttemplate/b06c70a1-ffcb-4dc6-a651-4146a06f30e0

The Ministry of Labour publishes the foreign work-permit service:

www.labour.gov.eg/

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Papers and residence: only items already cited

In the site tools, the work-permit papers already cited are: original passport and a copy of the page with the entry visa, a company letter, a commercial-register extract no older than 14 days, and a notarized power of attorney; degree and experience certificates need legalization. One of the cited pages:

sadanykhalifa.com/en/single-blog/Obtaining-and-renewing-work-permits-for-foreign

That is a law-firm note, not the statute. Match the list with the employer and the authority before you file.

The same notes say: after security clearance the permit is issued; residence is then filed at Passports, Immigration and Nationality (an investment company may use GAFI’s passport office). The period written there is generally one year and renews with the permit. A new employer means a new permit.

Prime Minister Decree 3326 of 2023: residence fees need a receipt from a bank or licensed exchange showing foreign currency converted into Egyptian pounds. The Library of Congress monitor:

www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2023-09-13/egypt-new-regulations-on-reside

This page states neither the official fee nor notice periods nor leave days.