Seven Years in Ten Plus a Clean Twelve Months, Greek at B1, and a Three-Year Fast Lane for Companies the Cabinet Names
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Guatemala on this topic. That is the answer, not a gap - everything below is the rule you get, unchanged.
172 exceptions recorded across 63 countries · none match Guatemala to Cyprus · Becoming a citizen
Naturalisation is article 111 of the Civil Registry Law and the conditions are in article 111Β, which the Acts of 2023 and 2024 rewrote into seven cumulative qualifications. The residence test has two layers: lawful and continuous residence for the twelve months immediately before the application, broken by nothing shorter than ninety days of absence in total, and on top of that at least seven years of lawful residence or public service in the ten years before those twelve months. Then good character, defined by nine indicia running from disloyalty to an outstanding European arrest warrant; Greek at level B1 of the Common European Framework, proved by written and oral examination unless the applicant holds a Greek-language lyceum certificate or a Greek-taught degree; sufficient knowledge of basic elements of the contemporary political and social reality of the Republic, assessed by a three-member committee drawn from the Ministries of Interior, Education and Justice; suitable accommodation with stable and regular resources; and an intention to reside. Time spent as an applicant for international protection, as a holder of subsidiary or temporary protection, or as the holder of a student permit does not count at all. The fast lane is article 111Β(2): a person in highly skilled employment at a company the Council of Ministers names in a decision, under a framework for attracting companies and talent, needs four years with Greek at A2 or three years with Greek at B1 instead of seven, and those applications are examined within eight months. Buying citizenship is no longer possible: article 111Α(2), which carried the Cyprus Investment Programme, reads Deleted.
At a glance
- Residence immediately before applying
- Twelve months, continuous, with absences totalling no more than ninety days
Article 111Β(1)(α) of the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002.
- Residence before that
- Seven years within the preceding ten
Article 111Β(1)(β), counting lawful residence and service in the public service of the Republic together.
- Highly skilled route
- Four years with Greek at A2, or three years with Greek at B1, instead of seven
Article 111Β(2), available only to a person in highly skilled employment at companies designated by a Council of Ministers decision. Absences of up to ninety days a year count as residence.
- Language
- Greek at B1, by written and oral examination
Article 111Β(1)(δ). The proviso exempts holders of a lyceum leaving certificate taught mainly in Greek, or of a degree taught in Greek.
- Knowledge of the country
- Basic elements of contemporary political and social reality, assessed by a three-member committee
Article 111Β(1)(ε). The committee is drawn from the Ministries of Interior, Education and Sport and Youth, and Justice and Public Order.
- Time that does not count
- As an asylum applicant, as a holder of subsidiary or temporary protection, or as the holder of a student permit
The second proviso to article 111Β(1).
- Decision time on the fast lane
- Eight months
Article 111Β(7), which also makes the fee a matter for a decree of the Minister published in the Official Gazette.
- Citizenship by investment
- Repealed - article 111Α(2) reads Deleted
Deleted by the Civil Registry (Amending) (No. 2) Law of 2025, with a saving in article 111Α(2Α) only for court-ordered re-examination of applications lodged up to 30 October 2020.
- Renouncing your other nationality
- Not required by article 111Β, but the Council of Ministers may refuse unless the applicant renounces
The first proviso to article 111(1), which lets the Council of Ministers reject an application in a particular case or class of cases unless the applicant renounces the citizenship of any other country he holds.
Requirements
- Lawful and continuous residence for the twelve months before the application, with no more than ninety days of absence in total
- Seven years of lawful residence or public service in the preceding ten years, or three or four years under the highly skilled route
- Greek at level B1 of the Common European Framework, by written and oral examination
- Sufficient knowledge of basic elements of the contemporary political and social reality of the Republic
- Suitable accommodation and stable, regular economic resources
- An intention to reside in the Republic or to enter or continue in its public service
Country-level policy
The Office of the Law Commissioner prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes and the Republic serves them as PDFs from gov.cy. The edition of the Aliens and Immigration Law, Cap. 105, is dated August 2024 and carries the amendments down to Law 111(I) of 2024. Its own legal notice then withdraws most of what a reader would take it to be: the edition does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term, because the sections were not renumbered and it was never approved by the House of Representatives; it is published for practical convenience and does not replace the text of the laws it brings together; and only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette are authentic. The English edition of the free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 says the same thing in English, and adds that it is a translation. What fills the gap is a commercial service: CyLaw, run by the Cyprus Bar Association, publishes consolidated texts that are materially more current than the state's own - its Income Tax Law carries the rate bands that apply from tax year 2026, where the Tax Department's own PDF of the same Act still prints the bands of 2008. The Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its readers to CyLaw for the consolidated text of its own founding Act rather than to anything the state publishes.
Four separate statutes of the Republic express the same territorial qualification, and they do it in the operative text rather than in a preamble. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 defines the phrase: areas controlled by the Government of the Republic means those areas of the Republic of Cyprus in which the Government of the Republic exercises effective control. The Aliens and Immigration Law uses it where it matters to a resident - five years of lawful residence in those areas for long-term resident status, two years there for the sponsor of a family reunification, a residence address there on a single permit. The General Healthcare System Law makes habitual residence in those areas the first condition of being a beneficiary, and gives a separate right to Cypriot citizens habitually resident in the territory of the Sovereign Base Areas of the United Kingdom in Cyprus. The Civil Registry Law reaches the same ground from the other side, listing among the indicia of good character for naturalisation that the applicant has not behaved in a way amounting to acceptance of the unlawful administration in the areas not controlled by the Republic. What none of these texts says is how a day spent, or a home held, in an area the Government does not control is treated for any purpose outside those provisions - including the day count that decides tax residence, which the Income Tax Law expresses simply as presence in the Republic.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Guatemala
We have no rule recorded that treats your citizenship differently here, so the general rule above is the one that applies to you. That is an answer, not a gap.
What the law says
«(α) Έχει νόμιμη και συνεχή διαμονή στη Δημοκρατία για το χρονικό διάστημα των αμέσως προηγούμενων δώδεκα (12) μηνών από την ημερομηνία υποβολής της αίτησης πολιτογράφησής του: Νοείται ότι, περίοδοι απουσίας από τη Δημοκρατία που δεν υπερβαίνουν συνολικά τις ενενήντα (90) ημέρες εντός της περιόδου που προβλέπεται στην παρούσα παράγραφο δεν διακόπτουν το πιο πάνω αναφερόμενο χρονικό διάστημα· και»Our translation - not official
(a) He has lawful and continuous residence in the Republic for the period of the twelve (12) months immediately preceding the date of submission of his naturalisation application: Provided that periods of absence from the Republic not exceeding ninety (90) days in total within the period provided for in this paragraph do not interrupt the period referred to above; and
The clean year immediately before the application.
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«(β) άνευ επηρεασμού των μικρότερων συνολικών χρονικών περιόδων που προβλέπονται στο εδάφιο (2), κατά τη διάρκεια των αμέσως προηγούμενων δέκα (10) ετών από το χρονικό διάστημα των δώδεκα (12) μηνών που προβλέπεται στην παράγραφο (α), είτε διέμενε νόμιμα στη Δημοκρατία είτε διετέλεσε στη δημόσια υπηρεσία της Δημοκρατίας είτε μερικώς το ένα και μερικώς το άλλο, για χρονικά διαστήματα τα οποία αθροιζόμενα δεν είναι μικρότερα των επτά (7) ετών»The seven years in ten, running backwards from the start of that twelve-month period rather than from the application. The quotation runs on into the opening of paragraph (γ), which is where the good-character test begins.
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«(δ) έχει επαρκή γνώση της ελληνικής γλώσσας επιπέδου Β1, όπως καθορίζεται στο Κοινό Ευρωπαϊκό Πλαίσιο Αναφοράς για τις Γλώσσες του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης, με βάση τα καθοριζόμενα σε Διάταγμα του Υπουργού πιστοποιητικά γλωσσομάθειας του εν λόγω επιπέδου, τα οποία χορηγούνται κατόπιν υποβολής του αλλοδαπού σε γραπτή και προφορική εξέταση, η οποία διενεργείται ανά τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα, σύμφωνα με το εν λόγω Διάταγμα του Υπουργού:»The language test and the examination that proves it.
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Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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«(ε) έχει επαρκή γνώση βασικών στοιχείων της σύγχρονης πολιτικής και κοινωνικής πραγματικότητας της Δημοκρατίας, η διαδικασία και ο τρόπος αξιολόγησης της οποίας καθορίζονται από τριμελή επιτροπή αξιολόγησης, η οποία απαρτίζεται από εκπροσώπους του Υπουργείου Εσωτερικών, του Υπουργείου Παιδείας, Αθλητισμού και Νεολαίας και του Υπουργείου Δικαιοσύνης και Δημοσίας Τάξεως· και»Our translation - not official
(e) he has sufficient knowledge of basic elements of the contemporary political and social reality of the Republic, the procedure and manner of assessment of which are determined by a three-member assessment committee composed of representatives of the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Education, Sport and Youth and the Ministry of Justice and Public Order; and
The civics test, and who sets it.
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«Νοείται περαιτέρω ότι, στον υπολογισμό της περιόδου διαμονής δεν λαμβάνεται υπόψη η περίοδος κατά την οποία ο αλλοδαπός διέμεινε ως αιτητής διεθνούς προστασίας ή ως κάτοχος συμπληρωματικής ή προσωρινής προστασίας ή ως κάτοχος άδειας φοιτητή.»Our translation - not official
Provided further that, in calculating the period of residence, no account is taken of the period during which the alien resided as an applicant for international protection or as a holder of subsidiary or temporary protection or as the holder of a student permit.
Years that do not count, and a student's are among them.
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«(2) Ανεξαρτήτως των διατάξεων των παραγράφων (β) και (δ) του εδαφίου (1), σε περίπτωση προσώπου το οποίο διαμένει στη Δημοκρατία με σκοπό την απασχόληση υψηλής ειδίκευσης σε εταιρείες οι οποίες καθορίζονται με Απόφαση του Υπουργικού Συμβουλίου, στο πλαίσιο προσέλκυσης εταιρειών για δραστηριοποίηση ή/και επέκταση των δραστηριοτήτων τους στη Δημοκρατία ή παρόμοιας φύσεως πλαίσιο προσέλκυσης εταιρειών ή/και ταλαντούχου ανθρώπινου δυναμικού, και το οποίο έχει γνώση της ελληνικής γλώσσας επιπέδου Α2 ή Β1, όπως καθορίζεται στο Κοινό Πλαίσιο Αναφοράς για τις Γλώσσες του Συμβουλίου της Ευρώπης, με βάση τα καθοριζόμενα σε Διάταγμα του Υπουργού πιστοποιητικά γλωσσομάθειας του εν λόγω επιπέδου, τα οποία χορηγούνται κατόπιν υποβολής του αλλοδαπού σε γραπτή και προφορική εξέταση, η οποία διενεργείται ανά τακτά χρονικά διαστήματα, σύμφωνα με το εν λόγω Διάταγμα, ή το οποίο κατέχει απολυτήριο αναγνωρισμένου ιδρύματος δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης επιπέδου λυκείου, που έχει ως βασική γλώσσα διδασκαλίας την ελληνική, ή ακαδημαϊκό τίτλο σπουδών, σε πρόγραμμα του οποίου η γλώσσα διδασκαλίας είναι η ελληνική, τα αθροιζόμενα χρονικά διαστήματα εντός των προηγούμενων δέκα (10) ετών από το χρονικό διάστημα των δώδεκα (12) μηνών που προβλέπεται στην παράγραφο (α) του εδαφίου (1) δεν είναι μικρότερα των τεσσάρων (4) ετών για τον κάτοχο πιστοποιητικού γλωσσομάθειας επιπέδου Α2 ή των τριών (3) ετών για τον κάτοχο πιστοποιητικού γλωσσομάθειας επιπέδου Β1 ή απολυτηρίου δευτεροβάθμιας εκπαίδευσης επιπέδου λυκείου, που έχει ως βασική γλώσσα διδασκαλίας την ελληνική, ή ακαδημαϊκού τίτλου σπουδών, σε πρόγραμμα του οποίου η γλώσσα διδασκαλίας είναι η ελληνική, αντί των επτά (7) ετών:»The fast lane for highly skilled employment, and the exact trade between years of residence and level of Greek: four years at A2, three at B1 or with Greek-language schooling, instead of seven.
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«(2) [Διαγράφηκε].»Our translation - not official
(2) [Deleted].
The Cyprus Investment Programme, as the statute now records it.
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Practical notes
The companies whose highly skilled staff get the three- or four-year route are named in a decision of the Council of Ministers, which article 111Β(4) says is published by notification in the Official Gazette. That decision was not read, so this record cannot say which companies are on it.
Renunciation of an existing nationality is not one of the seven qualifications, but the first proviso to article 111(1) lets the Council of Ministers refuse a certificate unless the applicant renounces - a discretion rather than a rule.
Honorary naturalisation survives in article 111Α(1), for very exceptional cases of services of the highest level to the Republic, and it requires the House of Representatives to be informed in advance.
This record is quoted from the Bar Association's consolidation, which carries the amendments down to 2025. The Republic publishes no consolidated edition of the Civil Registry Law.
- consolidatesΟ Περί Αρχείου Πληθυσμού Νόμος του 2002 (141(I)/2002), ενοποιημένο κείμενο
CyLaw, Παγκύπριος Δικηγορικός Σύλλογος (Cyprus Bar Association)
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The legal-information service of the Cyprus Bar Association at https://www.cylaw.org/, and in practice the only place a consolidated Cypriot statute can be read. Each Act has an address of the form /nomoi/enop/non-ind/<year>_<part>_<number>/full.html - the Income Tax Law 118(I)/2002 at /2002_1_118/full.html, the Civil Registry Law 141(I)/2002 at /2002_1_141/full.html, the General Healthcare System Law 89(I)/2001 at /2001_1_89/full.html, the Driving Licence Law 94(I)/2001 at /2001_1_94/full.html, the research-and-studies Law 7(I)/2019 at /2019_1_7/full.html, the payment accounts Law 64(I)/2017 at /2017_1_64/full.html. Every page opens with an Ιστορικό Τροποποιήσεων listing each amending Act in order, and each provision is followed by the Acts that made it, so the amendment chain is readable rather than inferred. The consolidations are materially more current than the state's own: the Income Tax Law here carries amendments to 67(I)/2026 where the Tax Department's PDF stops at 219(I)/2025. The pages are served in a non-Unicode encoding that a plain client renders as mojibake; the project's fetcher handles it and the stored text is clean Greek.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **It is not a government publisher.** It is the Bar Association's service, it carries no statement of authority, it states no cut-off date for any consolidation, and nothing on it has legal force - the authentic text is the printed Official Gazette, as the Office of the Law Commissioner's own editions say. It must therefore never be the only source behind a topic: every Cyprus record that quotes it also carries a government source. It cannot be cited as proof that a provision is in force, only as the best available reading of what it now says, and a figure taken from it that contradicts a government publication has to be reported as a contradiction rather than resolved in its favour. It is worth noting who relies on it anyway: the Health Insurance Organisation, a statutory body of the Republic, links its own readers here for the consolidated text of the General Healthcare System Laws.
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- administersEntry in Cyprus, Migration Department
Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection, Migration Department
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The department that decides every residence application in Cyprus, publishing at https://www.gov.cy/mip-md/ in Greek and at /mip-md/en/ in English. Its pages are the operative text for routes the statute leaves open: the Category A to F criteria for an immigration permit, the fourth revision of the investor criteria in force since 2 May 2023, the single-permit employment page with its fees and its four-year ceiling, the students page, the family-members-of-Cypriots page, and the entry page. Each carries a Posted On date. The site answers a plain request through the extraction service; a direct fetch with a default user agent is refused with 403.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: **It publishes policy and calls it criteria, and much of that policy has no instrument behind it.** The entire investor route rests on Regulation 6(2) of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations, a residual discretion that names no sum; the EUR 300,000, the four investment categories, the EUR 50,000 income and the multiplication for adult children are the Department's and can change by a fifth revision without anything being published in the Gazette. The same is true of the policy for third-country family members of Cypriot citizens and of the four-year ceiling on employment. Where it restates a statute it sometimes does not match it: its Category F page adds three conditions Regulation 5(f) does not contain - that the income come from abroad, that it allow a decent living, and that the holder not work - and reads the First Schedule's figures as Cyprus pounds, publishing EUR 9,568 and EUR 4,613 where the Office of the Law Commissioner's edition prints EUR 5,600 and 2,700. Its Category A capital of approximately EUR 430,000 does not match the EUR 341,720 in the Regulations either. It cannot be cited for the text of Cap. 105 or of the Regulations, nor for visas: it says itself that where an entry visa is not required the competent authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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