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Originally Posted by not_terry
Hi
I am having some confusion over visas.
I am coming to Sharm on 22nd I am intending to stay I have an apartment booked for rental until I can purchase an apartment.
I have a one week holiday package in a hotel but will not be using the return flight.
I have been told to purchase a 'full' visa at the airport that includes Cairo not the free one for the one week then to go to El Tur and have it extended, evidently they can do it on the spot without an appointment.
However I am told that I need a residents permit to buy a property but someone else has told me i cant get a residents permit UNTIL i own a property.
Is the resident permit the same as the extended visa, do i need both, does one get upgraded to the other?
What is the correct sequence from arrival at the airport pls
Thanks
I am really confused
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Dear Sir,
I'm urging you to read the other thread "Legal Thread" and I can confidently promise you that you'd have no more confusion then.
However, I will tell you now in brief the answers to your questions, but again please read the other thread:
FACTS:
Fact (1): You do NOT need to have a residency visa to buy a property, but you'd, however, need it in the event you are issuing a local power of attorney to your lawyer. However if you're issuing an international PoA from your home country there would be no ned for aresidency visa at all, unless you need it for another purpose.
Fact (2): In the event you're issuing the PoA locally, then please remember to get the Multi-entry Visa at the airport. It costs GBP 10. The purpose of this visa is to be able o get out of sharm and go to El Tur city where the visa department and the notary public are located.
Fact (3): According to the abovementioned, there IS a way to do it all without obtaining a residency visa, which is as aforementioned, the International PoA.
In this case your solicitor sends you a bilingual PoA to your email or by FEDEX or whatever, with your information and details included, then you should kindly follow the next steps to get it authenticated officially in the U.K:
1/ look in Yellow Pages for a local notary public (NP), who are always lawyers in practice; there is one at least in every small town and many more in cities
2/ Take the PoA along with passport and sign name in front of the NP who will then add his signature and details. He will want paying cash which is normally about GBP20.
3/ Take the PoA along, or post it to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London
Legalisation who will check the NP's details on their database and legalise the PoA by apostille. This costs GBP27.
4/ Take or post the PoA to the Egyptian Consulate General in London
http://www.egyptianconsulate.co.uk/ who will then check everything over and will legalise it in Arabic. Cost of this is GBP20.
5/ Post the PoA to your lawyer by recorded delivery or better still by DHL or the like.
The above is really very straight forward and in fact there are companies that will do 3/ and 4/ for people at a relatively cheap price as they do so many a day; details can be found on the internet.
(Steps were originally sent to me via a British lawyer who used to be a client and had to go through these steps).
Kindly read the above information again, read the info on the other thread, especially F.A.Q, and neglect any other contradicting information as it would then be misleading (i.e. you can't get the residency visa until you buy a property...etc.).
All the best,
Zeiad Yehia
Solicitor