Apply In-Person:

1. To apply for Travel insurance in Egypt, the applicant must either approach the nearest insurance office, or local Embassy.
2. The applicant must first fill up the application form required for the travel insurance with appropriate details.
3. Refer to the “Required Information” section of this procedure to know more.
4. Submit all the documents required along with the application form.
5. Refer to the “Required Documents” section of this procedure to know more.
6. Once the documents and application form is reviewed, the designated officer will issue a payment draft which the applicant will have to take to the bank and pay the required amount in addition to the bank charge.
7. Then the applicant has to present the bank receipt, and upon verification of the payment, the applicant will be told to go and pick their Travel insurance certificate depending upon the processing period required.
   

• 3 recent coloured photographs
• Birth certificate
• Valid identity proof
• Address proof
  

Ministry of Tourism
Mr Hisham Zaazou img
Address Cairo International Conference,
Nasr City, Cairo
Phone no. 22611732
Fax 22637199
E-mail N/A

Egyptian Tourism Authority
Headquarters
11 Abassya Square,
Cairo, Egypt.
Email Address: info@egypt.travel
Contact Link

Insurance Federation of Egypt
10, Iran St. Dokki Giza
P.O box: 527 Orman
Tel: (202) 33388471
Fax: (202) 33388474
Contact link

Provide eligibility criteria's for going through this procedure.

The cost of Travel insurance optional covers varies from one provider to another.

The travel insurance is valid for 1 year.

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The travel insurance is issued within 1-2 weeks.

Videos explaining the procedure or to fill the applications.
Attach videos using the following tag <&video type='website'>video ID|width|height<&/video&> from external websites.
Please remove the '&' inside the tags during implementation.
Website = allocine, blip, dailymotion, facebook, gametrailers, googlevideo, html5, metacafe, myspace, revver,
sevenload, viddler, vimeo, youku, youtube
width = 560, height = 340, Video ID = Can be obtained from the URL of webpage where the video is displayed.
e.g In the following url 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0US7oR_t3M' Video ID is 'Y0US7oR_t3M'.

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e.g. The state office holds birth records since january 1908.

• Name
• Birth date
• Address
• Place of birth
• Biometric data in order to obtain travel insurance and then a visa to travel to Egypt.
• Visa authorization telex/invitation with reference number from Egypt or travel agent.
  

Travel insurance covers medical expenses and financial losses while travelling, such as loss of luggage, non-refundable per-payments, trip cancellation fees, loss incurred as a result of bankruptcy of tour provider, theft of or damage to personal possessions including money, travel documents and passports, accidental death, and emergency evacuation/repatriation.

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Please explain what are other uses of obtaining this document/certificate.
e.g. Birth Certificate can be used as proof of identity.

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