2024-02-25T15:06:30+00:00
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/ The Egyptian House of Representatives announced on Sunday its approval of the draft law submitted by the government to amend some provisions of Law No. 97 of 1959 regarding passports, especially those related to increasing their fees.
Al-Masry Al-Youm newspaper reported that the draft law stipulates increasing passport fees from 250 pounds to 1,000 pounds.
The amendments to the provisions of Law No. 97 of 1959 came in the text of the first paragraph of Article (8) as follows:
The form of the passport shall be determined by a decision of the Minister of the Interior after the approval of the Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as determining its validity period, specifications, and the value of the fee collected for it, which shall not exceed 1,000 pounds, in addition to the fees stipulated by other laws.
Regarding the purpose of this, Al-Masry Al-Youm quoted MP Ahmed Saleh, a member of the Defense and National Security Committee in the House of Representatives, as saying during the presentation of the committee’s report on the draft amendment to the Passports Law, that the amendment to the law aims to achieve financial protection for the state budget, by reducing losses resulting from fluctuations in exchange rates to issue passports electronically in accordance with new international standards and the requirements of the International Civil Aviation Organization, while providing better security and greater effectiveness in combating passport forgery.
He added that “the amendment of passport fees came in light of the commitments to international charters and agreements that specified the methods of securing travel documents and what this requires in terms of making periodic amendments to passport security marks to achieve more guarantees.”
Regarding the date of implementing this increase, the Sada El Balad website revealed that there are two remaining steps, which are the approval and ratification of the President of the Republic and publishing the decision in the Official Gazette.