Egypt's Supreme Legislative Reform Committee sent Wednesday official inquiries to defense ministry and several other ministries about the new draft of immigration law submitted by manpower and immigration ministry for consulting, Al-Bawaba News reported. The new law needs careful study, especially as it is associated with a number of important issues including the military recruitment for those who wish to emigrate, a member of the committee, Salah Fawzy said. Fawzy asserted that the new law will improve the state of Egyptian immigrants and prevent the escalating phenomenon of illegal immigration that claims scores of Egyptian youths' lives annually. President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi has formed the Legislative Reform Committee in June to streamline, research and study the needed decisions and draft laws that should be issued to comply with the country's new constitution, passed in January 2014. The panel is headed by Mahlab and includes ministers of parliamentary affairs and transitional justice, the head of the State Council, the state's Mufti, Al-Azhar's deputy, the head of the cabinet's advisory board, the head of the State Council's legislative department and the justice minister's assistant for legislation.
