Recent Amendments
In 2004, Article 1 of the law has been amended to include the right of citizenship to those born to either Egyptian fathers or mothers in contrast to an earlier version excluding this right to children born to Egyptian fathers alone. Such amendment realized the principle of equality between those who were born to an Egyptian father and an Egyptian mother to enjoy the Egyptian nationality with no restrictions. It copes with the modern trends of the nationality laws that codifies the right of the mother to give her nationality to her children, and codifies the conditions of the children of an Egyptian national mother and a non-Egyptian national father, and the legislative provisions in the necessity of granting the Egyptian nationality upon their birth from an Egyptian mother with no regard to the nationality of their non-Egyptian father, to be similar to those who were born to an Egyptian national father and a non-Egyptian national mother.
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