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Originally Posted by annethedonn
Hi Anne and welcome to the forum. Where in Nabq have you bought - we have bought at Sierra in Nabq.
The visa's are rubber stamped into your passport ( not the self adhesive ones like the new entry visa ).
After they stamp the passport they then write period of stay ( which is the expiry date of the residency visa ) and the fee ( 83.10 LE ) and sign and date it. It clearly states Work is not permitted. This lasts 12 m.
The multi entry one is more or less the same and was 61LE ( cheaper than buying from the Consulate in London which is £18 ) This lasts 6 m,
Make sure that you make them aware that you want a multi entry one and make sure that where it stated number of visits that they write several and that they also write the expiry date.
It sounds to me that you have just got the 90 day visa which does not allow multiple visits in and out of the country.
Regards
Alison
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Hi Alison
Thanks for that. No, the one we got was a blue stamp in the visa. My husband only got a 3 month one as he's sudanese and they wouldn't give him a year. However, my initial visa I purchased was a 3 month multiple entry from the consulate in London which has now expired (this was stampped in the UK)
To buy the property in Sharm I was told we had to buy this residential visa to actually purchase the property (my current one was not applicable). It's this year visa for people who have bought property that they're saying is no longer valid even though it was for a period of one year and we'd only been there two days. I was not made aware that we would need to specify multiple entry as if something's valid for a year you would assume just that. So I don't know if it's a multiple entry one or not as we paid for this with our solicitor fees and actually waiting ages in the building in El Tur to get this blue stamped purchase property visa.
Based on what happened on arrival in Sharm the airport staff could have got it wrong again in relation to the blue stamped visa (same as they did with my initial visa which entitled me to multiple entry anywhere in Egypt yet they made me buy a 2 week visa on arrival which I then got my money back for as they checked with another person at the airport who then said my 3 month one is valid). They just want to get more money out of you!
I am still none the wiser lol!
We have bought at Sunny House in Nabq Bay. Hubby's going out mid May to furnish it. Just bought insurance for it in the UK.
Anne