Hi Kerry - mine does state WORK IS NOT PERMITTED in English and this is in the rubber stamp and not handwritten. For the multi entry I made sure that they wrote number of visits various and this is in English.

Ref Allison - she married an Egyptian so this probably helped and yes she had to go and have an aids test. She will tell you all about this when / if you meet her and then you can post comments in your thread.

It would also be useful if you could obtain a letter / ref from your current employer stating how long you had worked for them and your qualifications all translated into Arabic. Zeiad would probably be able to do this for you.

There is this thread on working in Egypt http://www.totallyproperty.com/egypt...look-here.html