Visas & Customs Requirements

Students:

Students must have a passport before entering Egypt. File your passport application at least three months before your date of departure to avoid unforeseen delays.

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.

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. Depending on where your classes are held, take your passport and your complete address written on a piece of paper to the Business Support Office located in the Administration Building, room G-023, New Cairo Campus or the Business Support Satellite Office located in room 424Main, Downtown Campus, between 09:00am and 01:00pm.

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.

List of universities in Egypt:

• International Academy for Media Engineering and Media Science
• MISR University for Science and Technology
• Modern Sciences and Arts University
• Alexandria University
• Arab Academy for Science & Technology and Maritime Transport
• King Marriott Academy
• Pharos University in Alexandria
• Université Senghor
• Assiut University
• Benha University
• Beni-Suef University
• Akhbar El-Yom Academy
• Al-Azhar University
• Cairo University
• Helwan University
• Misr International University
• Nahda University
• Nile University
• Sinai University
• The American University in Cairo
• Delta University for Science and Technology
• The British University in Egypt
• Université Francaise d'Egypte
• Minya University
• Fayoum University
• Suez Canal University
• Kafrelsheikh University
• Mansoura University
• Sohag University
• Future University Egypt
• German University in Cairo
• South Valley University
• Minufiya University
• Tanta University
• Higher Technological Institute
• Zagazig University