Egypt Publishes Decisions Allowing 42 Citizens to Acquire Foreign Nationalities, Restoring Citizenship to 21

Egypt’s Official Gazette has published Interior Ministry decisions allowing 42 citizens to acquire foreign nationalities and restoring Egyptian citizenship to 21 others.

The decisions include Interior Ministerial Decree No. 1445 of 2026, which authorizes 21 citizens to obtain foreign citizenship while retaining their Egyptian nationality.

Those 21 citizens account for half of the 42 covered by the naturalization approvals. The brief summary did not specify whether the remaining citizens would also retain Egyptian nationality.

The restoration decisions concern a separate group of 21 people. No details were provided about the circumstances behind the restoration of their citizenship.