Category F: A Secured Annual Income, a Schedule Half of Which Is Still in Pounds, and a Permit With No Expiry
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Belize 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 Belize to Cyprus · Residency on passive income
Living in Cyprus on money from elsewhere is one of six categories of immigration permit in Regulation 5 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations, and the list is closed: no permit is granted to anyone who does not fall within one of them. Category F is the one for income. The Regulation asks for very little in its own words - a recommendation from the Immigration Control Committee that the applicant holds, absolutely and at his own free disposal, a secured annual income of the appropriate amount as set out in the First Schedule - and the Migration Department's published criteria then add three conditions the Regulation does not contain: that the income come from abroad, that it allow a decent living, and that the holder not engage in any business, trade or profession in the Republic. The two publications also disagree about the money. The First Schedule as the Office of the Law Commissioner prints it reads EUR 5,600 for the applicant and a pound sign before 2,700 for the spouse and for each dependant; the Department reads all three figures as Cyprus pounds and publishes them converted, at EUR 9,568 for the applicant and EUR 4,613 for each dependant. The permit itself is unusually strong for a first grant: the Department states the residence right is of unlimited validity, with a card that expires after ten years and is replaced. It lapses if the holder does not take up residence within a year of approval, and it is lost by acquiring permanent residence abroad or by two years' absence.
At a glance
- Income required, as the Department publishes it
- EUR 9,568 a year for the applicant and EUR 4,613 for each dependant
The Migration Department's Immigration Permits page, which prints each figure with its Cyprus pound original beside it: CY£5,600 and CY£2,700.
- Income required, as the Schedule is printed
- EUR 5,600 for the applicant, and 2,700 under a pound sign for the spouse and for each dependant
The First Schedule to the Regulations in the Office of the Law Commissioner's edition. The applicant's line carries a euro sign and the other two carry a lira sign, and the Department treats all three as pounds.
- What the Regulation itself requires
- A secured annual income of the appropriate amount, and nothing else
Regulation 5(στ) names no source for the income, no standard of living, and no prohibition on working. The three extra conditions are on the Department's page.
- Application fee
- EUR 500 for everyone on the application
The Migration Department's Immigration Permits page. An Aliens Registration Certificate, where one is needed, costs a further EUR 70.
- Duration
- Unlimited, on a card that expires after ten years
The Migration Department's Immigration Permits page; a permit issued to an under-age dependant runs to the age of 18.
- Lapse for not arriving
- One year from approval
Regulation 6(3), and the same period on the Department's page.
- Loss by absence
- Permanent residence abroad, or two years outside the Republic
Regulation 6(6), and the same rule on the Department's page.
- Right to the permit
- None - nobody has an absolute right to be granted one
Regulation 6(5), which says so in terms even where the applicant falls squarely within a Regulation 5 category.
Requirements
- A secured annual income of the amount in the First Schedule to the Regulations
- A recommendation from the Immigration Control Committee that you fall within Category F
- Taking up residence in Cyprus within one year of the permit being approved
- Not acquiring permanent residence abroad, and not being absent from Cyprus for two years
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 Belize
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
«5. Εις ουδένα χορηγείται άδεια μεταναστεύσεως πλήν αν ουτος ανήκει εις μίαν των ακολούθων κατηγοριών»Our translation - not official
5. No immigration permit shall be granted to anyone unless he belongs to one of the following categories
The closed list. Six categories follow, lettered A to F, and Regulation 6(2) is the only way out of it.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«(στ) Κατηγορία ΣΤ. Πρόσωπον όπερ είναι κάτοχος συστάσεως εκδοθείσης υπό της Επιτροπής ότι κατέχει αυτοδικαίως και έχει εις πλήρη και ελευθέραν αυτού διάθεσιν ησφαλισμένον ετήσιον»Our translation - not official
(f) Category F. A person who holds a recommendation issued by the Committee that he possesses absolutely and has at his full and free disposal a secured annual
The whole of what the Regulation asks. The sentence continues into the next quotation; the words between them are the marginal reference to the First Schedule, printed beside the line in the two-column edition.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«εισόδημα του καταλλήλου ποσού ως εκτίθεται εν τω Πρώτω Πίνακι των παρόντων Κανονισμών.»Our translation - not official
income of the appropriate amount as set out in the First Schedule to these Regulations.
The rest of the sentence.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«ΠΡΩΤΟΣ ΠΙΝΑΚΑΣ Κανονισμός 5(στ) Περιγραφή Ετήσιο εισόδημα 1. Αιτητής €5,600 2. Σύζυγος αιτητή ₤2,700 3. Κάθε εξαρτώμενος αιτητή ₤2,700»Our translation - not official
FIRST SCHEDULE, Regulation 5(f). Description - Annual income. 1. Applicant EUR 5,600. 2. Spouse of applicant 2,700. 3. Each dependant of applicant 2,700
Quoted exactly as printed, including the lira sign on lines 2 and 3. The footnote that converted the capital figures in Regulation 5 to euro is K.D.P. 312/2007, a notice under the Adoption of the Euro Law 33(I)/2007.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«(3) Άδεια μεταναστεύσεως παύει ισχύουσα εάν ο κάτοχος αυτής ών εκτός της Δημοκρατίας κατά την ημερομηνίαν εκδόσεως αυτής δεν απέκτησε μόνιμον διαμονήν εντός ενός έτους από της τοιαύτης ημερομηνίας.»Our translation - not official
(3) An immigration permit ceases to have effect if its holder, being outside the Republic on the date of its issue, has not acquired permanent residence within one year from that date.
About this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«(5) Aνεξαρτήτως του ότι ούτος ανήκει εις οιανδήποτε των εν τω κανονισμώ 5 καθοριζομένων κατηγοριών, ουδείς κέκτηται απόλυτον δικαίωμα να τύχη χορηγήσεως αδείας μεταναστεύσεως.»Our translation - not official
(5) Notwithstanding that he belongs to any of the categories specified in Regulation 5, no person acquires an absolute right to be granted an immigration permit.
About this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«(6) Αλλοδαπός, ούτινος επετράπη η είσοδος ως μετανάστου δυνάμει των διατάξεων των παρόντων Κανονισμών ή οιωνδήποτε κανονισμών καταργηθέντων υπό των παρόντων, ή πρόσωπον έχον την μόνιμον αυτού διαμονήν εν τη Δημοκρατία, όστις απέκτησε μόνιμον διαμονήν εν οιαδήποτε ετέρα χώρα ή παρέμεινε εκτός της Δημοκρατίας διά περίοδον τουλάχιστον 2 ετών απόλλυσι το τοιούτο δικαίωμα διαμονής εν τη Δημοκρατία.»Our translation - not official
(6) An alien who was permitted to enter as an immigrant under the provisions of these Regulations or of any regulations repealed by these, or a person having his permanent residence in the Republic, who has acquired permanent residence in any other country or has remained outside the Republic for a period of at least 2 years, loses that right of residence in the Republic.
About this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
«Persons who possess and have fully and freely at their disposal from abroad a secured annual income of an appropriate amount to allow them a decent living in Cyprus, without having to engage in any business, trade or profession in the Republic. The annual income required should be at least €9,568 (CY£5,600) for the applicant and moreover at least €4,613 (CY£2,700) for every dependent person. This income may include pensions, dividends from shares, fixed deposits interest, rents a.s.o.»The Department's version of Category F. Three conditions here are not in Regulation 5(f): that the income come from abroad, that it allow a decent living, and that the holder not engage in any business, trade or profession. The figures are the Schedule's read as Cyprus pounds and converted.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«The residence right of such permits is of unlimited validity, for the holder and his/her adult dependents. The residence permit (card), however, has an expiry date of ten years from the date of its issuance and must be replaced with its expiration.»About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«An Immigration Permit shall cease to be valid if the interested person and his/her dependents acquire permanent residence abroad or be absent from Cyprus for a period of two years.»About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«According to Regulation 4 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations the Immigration Control Committee examines applications for Immigration Permits. The Committee submits its recommendations for these applications to the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection, who is the competent authority for granting such permits. An Immigration Permit will not be granted to anybody unless the Immigration Control Committee recommends to the eputy Minister of Migration and International Protection that such person belongs to one of the Categories referred to, as in Regulation 5.»Who decides. The Regulations name the Minister; the Department names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection, an office that did not exist when the 2017 edition of the Regulations was printed.
Read it at the sourceAbout this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
«The fees for submitting this application amount to €500 for all persons included in the application.»About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source
Practical notes
The two figures for Category F cannot both be right and we have not read the instrument that would settle them. EUR 9,568 is CY£5,600 at the irrevocable conversion rate and EUR 4,613 is CY£2,700 at the same rate, so the Department's reading is internally consistent; the Office of the Law Commissioner's Schedule prints a euro sign in front of the first figure and a pound sign in front of the other two. Plan on the Department's figures, because the Department decides the application.
The same disagreement runs through Regulation 5 itself. The Regulations print EUR 341,720 of capital for Category A and the same sum for Category B; the Department's page gives Category A as approximately EUR 430,000 (CY£250,000) and Category B as approximately EUR 350,000 (CY£200,000). EUR 341,720 is exactly CY£200,000 converted, so the Regulations and the Department agree on Category B and differ on Category A.
Category D, for a person self-employed in a profession or science, also turns on sufficient funds or secured income, but it adds a test the applicant cannot satisfy by himself: the Committee must certify that there is a need in the Republic for additional members of that profession.
Whether a Category F permit makes you a beneficiary of the General Healthcare System is decided by article 16 of Law 89(I)/2001 and not by the permit, and is recorded under healthcare.
- consolidatesΟι περί Αλλοδαπών και Μεταναστεύσεως Κανονισμοί του 1972 μέχρι 2013, Ενοποίηση στην Ελληνική
Γραφείο Επιτρόπου Νομοθεσίας (Office of the Law Commissioner) · consolidated to 2017
Known to be out of date. The edition is of December 2017 and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013. It still names the Minister as the authority that grants immigration permits, where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection.
About this source
The Republic's law revision office. It prints bound editions of Cypriot statutes - a Greek consolidation of a colonial-era Chapter, an English translation and consolidation of a modern Act - and gov.cy serves them as PDFs from https://www.gov.cy/media/sites/287/. The Aliens and Immigration Law (Cap. 105) is at .../2026/03/o-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-nomos-kef-105.pdf, 549,910 characters, August 2024 edition, amendments to Law 111(I)/2024. Its Regulations and the Visa Regulations 2004 are in one volume at .../2026/03/oi-peri-allodapon-kai-metanasteyseos-kanonismoi-toy-1972-mechri-2013-kai-peri.pdf, December 2017 edition. The free-movement Law 7(I)/2007 is at .../2026/06/L_7_I_2007.pdf, May 2024 edition, amendments to Law 96(I)/2023, in English. The addresses are stable and answer a plain request; no proxy, no warm-up, no session.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: **Each edition says on its own first page that it is not a consolidation.** The Greek Cap. 105 edition prints, in terms, that it does not constitute a consolidation in the proper sense of the term because the sections were not renumbered and the House of Representatives never approved it, that it is issued for practical convenience without replacing the text of the laws consolidated, and that only the texts published in the printed Official Gazette of the Republic are authentic. The English Law 7(I)/2007 edition says the same and adds that it is a translation. So nothing here may be cited as the authentic text of anything, and the date on the title page is a cut-off rather than a statement about the law today - the Regulations edition is nine years old and the last regulation it carries is of 1 February 2013, which is why it still names the Minister where the Migration Department now names the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection. Two mechanical limits matter. The PDFs are set in two columns with the amending Act printed as a marginal note, and the project's extraction preserves the physical page, so a marginal reference lands inside the sentence it annotates: a quotation that crosses one cannot be taken whole, and several quotations in the Cyprus records stop short of the end of a subsection for that reason. The English edition's text layer is itself a recognition - it prints the amending Acts as 7(1) of 2007 and 8(0) of 2013, reading the Roman numeral I as a digit - so a citation copied from it has to be checked against the Act number rather than trusted. It consolidates only what it has published: there is no edition here of the Income Tax Law, the Civil Registry Law, the General Healthcare System Law, the Driving Licence Law or the payment accounts Law, and for those the only consolidated text is the Bar Association's.
We re-read it every 120 days. More about this source
- administersImmigration Permits, Migration Department
Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection, Migration Department
About this source
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.
We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source