Egypt

Visa Information and Lodgement

Country coverage

The visa office provides immigration and visa services to clients in Egypt and five other African countries including: Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia.

Permanent entry visas

Permanent entry visa applications (except general skilled, business skills, Distinguished Talent (subclass 124), Former Resident (subclass 151) and parent subclasses) from countries in the country coverage list above are lodged and processed in Cairo.

General skilled migration visas are lodged at the Adelaide Skilled Processing Centre.
See: General Skilled Migration Processing Centres

Business skills applications are lodged and processed at the Perth Business Skills Processing Centre.
See: Perth Business Skills Processing Centre

Applications under the Special Migration stream – Distinguished Talent (subclass 124) and Former Resident (subclass 151), are lodged and processed at the Perth Office.
See:
Perth Office
Distinguished Talent Visa Enquiry form

Contributory parent and parent migration applications are lodged and processed at the Parent Visa Centre.
See: Parent Visa Centre

Refugee and Humanitarian visas

Refugee and Humanitarian (Class XB) visa applications from countries in the country coverage list above are lodged and processed in Cairo.
Exception: Those described below in ‘Lodging Certain Humanitarian Applications in Australia from Applicants in Any Country in Africa’

Clients from Africa whose application for a Refugee and Humanitarian (Class XB) visa is accompanied by a proposal form (Form 681) must lodge their application at the department's Sydney office. This applies to people who are lodging a visa for consideration under the Global Special Humanitarian Program or as an immediate family member.
See:
Lodging Certain Humanitarian Applications in Australia from Applicants in Any Country in Africa ( 27KB PDF file)
NSW Offshore Humanitarian Processing Centre

Temporary entry visas

Temporary entry visa applications from countries in the country coverage list above are lodged and processed in Cairo.

416 Special Program applications are lodged and processed at the Hobart Special Program Processing Centre.
See: Hobart Special Program Processing Centre

420 Entertainment sponsorship and visa applications are lodged and processed at the Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre.
See: Sydney Entertainment Processing Centre

442 Occupational Trainee sponsorship and visa applications are lodged and processed at the Adelaide Occupational Trainee Processing Centre.
See: Adelaide Occupational Trainee Processing Centre

Sponsored Family Visitor visa (subclass 679) applications must be lodged in Australia by the sponsor. 679 Sponsored Family Visitor visas will be processed at one of the Sponsored Family Visitor processing centres.
See: Sponsored Family Visitor Processing Centres

If you are sponsored by an Australian employer for a subclass 457 Business (Long Stay) visa, you may lodge your visa application online or at an Australian office of the department. If you are sponsored by an overseas business, you can lodge your visa application with the Australian Immigration Office responsible for applications in your country.
See:
Centres of Excellence
Online Applications

If you are sponsored by an Australian employer, you must lodge your visa application at the same office in Australia where your employer lodged papers to support your application. Please ask your employer which office they lodged these papers at. Office addresses are available.
See: Contact details in Australia

Citizenship

Applications for Citizenship by Descent can be lodged at the Australian Embassy, Egypt.

All applications for Australian citizenship general eligibility and other situations, and applications to resume or renounce (give up) Australian citizenship should be lodged at the Melbourne CBD Office.
See:
Application process for Australian citizenship
Application process to resume Australian citizenship
Giving up your citizenship
Melbourne CBD Office

Special procedures

Registered post is used for all correspondence.
Note: The Embassy and its clients have experienced delays or non-delivery of some posted items sent from outside of Egypt. As a result, clients should be aware that when items are sent by ordinary post, lengthy delays or even non-delivery of posted items may continue to occur.

To minimise the risk of experiencing delays or the non-delivery of your posted items to the Embassy, we recommend that you engage the services of an internationally reputable courier company which will guarantee a door-to-door service to the Embassy.