A Three-Hundred-Thousand-Euro Route Built Entirely on a Residual Discretion in a Regulation of 1972

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.

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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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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 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 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 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 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 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.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source

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.

We re-read it every 60 days. More about this source