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Hi MrSkipsey - dont know if you have seen this site but you input your postcode or county and it will list all the notaries in your area Welcome to the Notaries Society

Yeah, did that the other day Q.
Found a bloke in Gravesend (20min away) who will witness, sign and seal the PoA for £40.

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It would work out cheaper to get the train down to London. Then out to Gravesend to the NP that I used. Then back to London to the FCO and the Egyptian Embassy then back home.

But thats alot of train time!

Hi - I have merged this thread into the sticky visa thread and renamed it.

Sarah - a residence visa is required to issue POA in the Notary Office. See http://www.totallyproperty.com/egypt...ns-here-3.html post 24 onwards.

Ref visitors visas - you can download the form on the Consulate site and post to them. If you go more than once in 6 months then it is worth your while getting a multi entry visa which is £18 each and again you can download the form and apply by post - it is really quick and they process them in about 5 days and post the visa back to you.

If you look at page one on this thread I have put a link to where the visa office is in Hurghada.

I just copied this from the Cairo International Airport website. Not sure if it has already been posted before:

Residence in Egypt for Foreign Nationals
Egypt grants legitimate foreign nationals the right for temporary residence in the country. There are two main cases of resident permits in Egypt:
• Special Residence: is usually granted for a period of 10 years, renewable, and granted to those born in Egypt prior to 26/5/1952 or those having resided in the country for the 20 years preceding 26/5/1952, and whose stay has been uninterrupted; it is also granted to their wives and minor children.

• Ordinary Residence: is granted for a period of either 3 or 5 years.
Three-Year Residence
Non-nationals are entitled to obtain temporary 3 year residence (renewable) in Egypt if they belong to any of the following categories:
1. Non-national husbands of Egyptians.
2. Children:
o Minor children entitled to special or ordinary residence in like manner to their dead father.
o Adult children whose father is entitled to special, ordinary or 3 year residence provided a source of income is available to them.
o Adult Palestinian male children of those employed by the Department for the Governor General of Gaza, or of those retired from there, who have completed their studies and are not working in the country.
3. Those employed by the government, public institutions, public sector companies and public business sector.
4. Palestinians employed by the Department for the Governor General of Gaza and those retired from there.
5. Palestinians have travel documents issued solely by Egyptian Authorities who have been resident in Egypt for a period of 10 years.
6. Non-nationals who receive a monthly pension from the National Authority for Insurance and Pensions.
7. Non-national residents of the elderly and disabled homes.
8. Political refugees.
9. Refugees registered at the UN Higher Commission for Refugees (UNHCR).
10. Spouses of those non-nationals entitled to special or ordinary residence.
11. Egyptian spouses who forfeited their nationality of origin following marriage to non-nationals and the acquisition of the latter's citizenship.
12. Spouses and children of those non-nationals exempt from residence permits and restrictions.
13. Non-nationals who, for any reason, waived their entitlement to special or ordinary residence.
14. Those non-nationals employed by the Swiss Institute for Architectural and Archeological Research in Egypt.
15. Non-nationals who, according to international treaties, are entitled to obtain 3 year residence.
16. Those granted approval on 3 year residence from the Ministry of Interior.
17. Spouses and children of those non-nationals entitled to 3 year residence under any of the previous cases.

Five-Year Residence
Non-nationals are entitled to obtain temporary 5 year residence (renewable) in Egypt if they belong to any of the following categories:
1. Investors.
2. Egyptians and their minor children who forfeited their nationality of origin due to their admission to a foreign citizenship.
3. Children:
A. Of Egyptian mother.
B. Whose father was granted Egyptian citizenship
C. Adult children whose mother is entitled to special, ordinary or 5 year residence in case of the death of the father.
4. Those of age 60 or more who have been resident in Egypt for 10 years provided that a source of income is available to them.
5. Non-nationals who, according to international treaties, are entitled to obtain 5 year residence.
6. Spouses and widows of Egyptians.
7. Spouses of those non-nationals entitled to ordinary residence.
8. Spouses and children of those non-nationals entitled to 5-year residence under any of the previous cases.

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If giving POA to the solicitor in Egypt, and you don't wish to get a full residency visa at the time, you can just get a one month residency visa for free. This is what I did.

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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