For Sudanese, the cost of a work permit is about $40; however, they must prove they are uniquely qualified in order to get a work permit.
The large influx of Sudanese refugees in Egypt beginning in the late 1990s led to an increase in rent prices and a higher cost of living for refugees as well as social tensions between the natives and Sudanese not experienced during the past influxes in the 1980s [REF].