28-05-2008, 04:23 PM
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Join Date: May 2008
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Originally Posted by vix
You have to buy the usual tourist visa at the airport, then just ask for a residency addition which for one month is free. you do have to get this from the passport office tho. However, the total time it took in getting the residency visa and going to the notary office to give POA (which only costs £4.00 in Egypt) was less than one hour. The plus side to this is that you can then go back to the notary office and cancel the POA when the legal work is concluded
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Oh, so it's not free afterall really, I'd still have to hand over the £40 at the airport. As we're not likely to return to Egypt within a month, then it won't be worth it for us. We had to get our PoA signed here in the UK unfortunately, as we're not travelling to Hurghada until July it would have been too late. To make an additional trip to do the notary bit would have cost more than it has doing it from this end with the price of flights etc. and to use a UK based solicitor would cost 5 x more. So, I guess it's just one of those annoying little things :rolleyes:
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