Do Cyprus passport holders need a visa for Egypt?
Visa on arrival
Cyprus passport holders can obtain a visa on arrival in Egypt.
Entry requirements for Egypt
| Passport validity | 6 months months beyond arrival — Passport must be valid for at least 6 months from the arrival date (official e-Visa portal entry requirement; Egyptian Consulate London states 6 months at date of travel). |
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| Yellow fever | Certificate required only when arriving from risk countries — >12h airport transit in a risk country also triggers the requirement. Per the earlier WHO ITH country list, arrivals from Sudan without a vaccination certificate needed a location certificate showing they had not been south of 15N within the previous 6 days. |
| Exemption | Holders of Nationals not otherwise VOA-eligible who hold a valid and previously used visa, or a valid residence permit, of a Schengen state, the UK, USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Japan (GCC residence permits also cited in embassy statements): visa on arrival, up to 30 days — Visa must be valid and previously used (residence permits valid, per embassy statements ~6 months); confirmed return ticket, accommodation booking and sufficient funds required. Certain nationalities (e.g. Afghanistan, Ethiopia, Iran, Israel, Mali, Niger, Palestine, Sudan, Syria) remain excluded from VOA. SOURCING CAVEAT (adversarial re-check 2026-08-07): secondary only — the official VOA portal (apps.visaonarrival.gov.eg), the MOI entry-visa rules pages (moi.gov.eg), the Egypt e-Visa portal and the Egyptian Embassy in Washington were all checked and none publishes this prior-visa rule; it rests on Ministry of Tourism statements reported by Egyptian press and is widely applied in practice, but treat it as unconfirmed by primary sources. |
Transiting through Egypt?
| Transit visa (96 hours) | Up to 96h — Nationals of countries whose citizens are eligible for a contingency/emergency entry visa at ports of arrival. Free of charge; granted for up to 96 hours under the guarantee of one of the national (Egyptian) carriers operating the route (MOI entry-visa rules, Arabic). |
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