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General Rules

       

·         If you are a non-Egyptian student, you must have a valid passport from your country of citizenship in order to travel to Egypt. The passport should be valid for at least six months after the planned return to your home country.

·         For entry to Egypt, you must obtain a tourist visa from the Egyptian embassy or consulate in your home country. Tourist visas are valid for one to six months, and are nonrenewable.

  • Enter to Egypt with a tourist visa.
  • Register your name at the nearest neighborhood police station within the first seven days of your arrival. If you reside at AUC hostel, the “resident assistant” will help you. If you reside off-campus housing, the Business Support Office can help you with this process. Take your passport and your complete address written on a piece of paper to the Business Support Office, room 423 Main, between 09:30am and 02:30pm.

·         Within 30 days of arrival in Cairo, you must complete the application process to obtain a student residence visa.

·         Without an appropriate visa from the Egyptian government, you will be subject to deportation.

·         Non-Egyptian citizens are entitled to University certification for use only in obtaining a student residence visa if they are enrolled as full-time students.

·         If your parents are permanent residents of Egypt, you are not required to obtain a student residence visa provided that you are still a dependent of your parent.

·         AUC is not responsible for the denial of a student residence visa by the Egyptian government.

·         If you are an Egyptian/dual national male student or your father is Egyptian, the Egyptian government recognizes you as a citizen of Egypt. You are entitled to a six-month stay in Egypt as an Egyptian citizen  without any military service clarifications or obligations.  If you exceed the six-month stay, you have to process the military service exemption for Egyptian/dual national in person otherwise you will not be allowed to leave the country until you clarify your military service status and issue the military service exemption.

 

Procedure for Applying for a Student Residence Visa

       

  • The procedure starts when you fill out the "Student Data Form" attached to the AUC application  for admission, and submit it to the Enrollment services Office with a photocopy of your passport at least three months prior to your planned arrival in Egypt in order to have the security approval.

After arriving in Egypt

  • If your “Student Data Form” has not been received by AUC by the time you arrive to Egypt, submit a new data form attached with a copy of your passport to the Business Support Office, Room 423 Main, in order to have the security approval. The “Student Data Form” is available at the Business Support Office and the Enrollment Services Office.
  • Complete your payment and your registration as a full time student for the semester, download the "Student Visa Enrollment Certificate Request Form" from the web for students:   'student .aucegypt.edu' under  'forms'. 
  • Submit the request with a copy of your passport to Room 133 Main, Military and Visa Services Unit, Office of the University Registrar between 09:00am and 01:00pm  Sundays through Thursdays.
  • One week after your submission of the request, proceed to the Business Support Office, Room 423 Main, to submit:-

          -Your passport

          -One photo

                -The student visa fee. (It is either LE 62.10 or LE 92.10. Refer to the Business Support Office for more details.)

·         If your security approval from the Egyptian authorities has arrived to AUC, you will get your student residence visa within one week.


Contact Information

Military and Student Visa Services in Cairo
Voice: (20-2) 797-5004
Fax: (20-2) 794-1759
E-mail: suzan_o@aucegypt.edu


The Office of Student Affairs in New York
Voice: (212) 730-8800 ext. 24
Fax: (212) 730-1600
E-mail: aucegypt@aucnyo.edu

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