Egypt: 1) Information on status of someone bearing an Egyptian Travel Document/Document de voyage pour les réfugiés palestiniens; 2) Are Palestinians in Egypt granted refugee status recognized by the U.N.?
| Publisher | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada |
| Author | Research Directorate, Immigration and Refugee Board, Canada |
| Publication Date | 1 May 1990 |
| Citation / Document Symbol | EGY5068 |
| Cite as | Canada: Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, Egypt: 1) Information on status of someone bearing an Egyptian Travel Document/Document de voyage pour les réfugiés palestiniens; 2) Are Palestinians in Egypt granted refugee status recognized by the U.N.?, 1 May 1990, EGY5068, available at: https://www.refworld.org/docid/3ae6ac8750.html [accessed 29 May 2023] |
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According to the U.S. Committee for Refugees:
Palestinians living in Egypt must renew their residence permits every 10 months. [U.S. Committee for Refugees, World Refugee Survey-1988 Report, (Washington, D.C.: 1988), pp. 37.] Egypt does not grant permanent residency to Palestinians. Additionally, Palestinians are not permitted to own land unless in partnership with Egyptian owners, and many are unemployed. They can only enrol their children in private schools but not in state-run institutions, and "post-graduate educational opportunities for Palestinians are severely limited". [Ibid.]
It is not clear whether Egypt grants refugee status recognized by the U.N. to Palestinians, although the same source claims that Egypt hosts over "...1,000 UNHCR-assisted refugees, most of whom are students from Ethiopia" and that "[A]round 3,000 non-Palestinian refugees of Arab origin reside in Egypt, but are not registered with UNHCR." [Ibid., pp. 37-38.]
No information regarding the status of someone bearing an Egyptian Travel Document could be found among the sources currently available to the IRBDC.
