Union Free Movement Reaches Cyprus Through a Law Published in English, and It Stops at the Republic's Own Nationals
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Brazil 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 Brazil to Cyprus · Residency under a regional treaty
The treaty that gives a right of residence in Cyprus is the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, and the instrument that works it is Law 7(I)/2007, which the Office of the Law Commissioner publishes in an English translation and consolidation down to Law 96(I) of 2023. It transposes Directive 2004/38 in the usual shape: three months of residence on nothing more than a valid identity card or passport, and beyond three months a right that belongs to a Union citizen who is a worker or self-employed person in the Republic, or who has sufficient resources and full medical insurance so as not to become a burden on the social welfare system, or who is enrolled at an accredited establishment to follow a course of study with comprehensive insurance and a declaration of sufficient resources. Family members of any nationality come with them. Two things are Cypriot. The Law's definition of a citizen of the Union is a national of a member state other than the Republic together with EEA nationals, so it has nothing to say about a Cypriot citizen's own foreign family - they go to the Aliens and Immigration Law instead. And the 2024 edition still defines a citizen of the Union by reference to Article 17 of the Treaty, the pre-Lisbon numbering, where Cap. 105 was updated to Article 20 TFEU by Law 111(I) of 2024.
At a glance
- First three months
- No conditions or formalities beyond a valid identity card or passport
Section 8(1) of Law 7(I)/2007, which extends the same to family members holding a valid passport.
- Beyond three months
- Work, self-employment, sufficient resources with full medical insurance, or study
Section 9(1) of Law 7(I)/2007. The Law names no amount of resources in that section.
- Who counts as a Union citizen
- A national of a member state other than the Republic, and nationals of EEA contracting states
Section 2 of Law 7(I)/2007. A Cypriot citizen is outside it, and so is the third-country family of a Cypriot citizen.
- Retained worker status
- Kept through illness or accident, and through involuntary unemployment, for at least six months after a fixed-term contract of under a year
Section 9(4) of Law 7(I)/2007, with the Department of Labour certifying that the conditions are met.
- Who the UK cohort are
- Certain nationals of the United Kingdom, named in the Law's own title
The Law has been called The Right of Citizens of the Union and Certain Nationals of the United Kingdom and Their Family Members to Move and Reside Freely Within the Territory of the Republic of Cyprus since Law 193(I) of 2020.
- Entering without a visa
- Citizens of EU member states, Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway may enter on a photo identity card
The Republic's visa page.
Requirements
- A valid identity card or passport for the first three months
- Beyond three months: work, self-employment, sufficient resources with full medical insurance, or enrolment on a course with insurance and a declaration of resources
- For a family member who is not an EEA national: accompanying or joining a Union citizen who meets one of those conditions
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Brazil
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
«4.(1) This Law applies to every citizen of the Union who arrives or resides in the Republic, as well as to members of his/her family, regardless of nationality, who accompany him/her during his/her transition in the Republic or who arrive in the Republic to join him/her.»The scope: the Law reaches the Union citizen and his family of whatever nationality.
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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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«"citizen of the Union" means any person who is a national of a Member State of the European Union, other than the Republic, as included in Article 17 of the Treaty, as well as any person who is a national of a contracting state to the EEA;»And the words that keep the Republic's own nationals out of it.
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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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«8.-(1) Union citizens have the right to reside in the Republic for a period of up to three months, without any conditions or formalities other than the requirement to hold a valid identity card or passport.»The first three months.
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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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«9.-(1) Union citizens have the right of residence in the Republic for a period of longer than three months, provided they- (a) are workers or self-employed persons in the Republic; or (b) have sufficient resources for themselves and their family members so as not to become a burden for the Republic's social welfare system during their period of residence, as well as full medical insurance cover in the Republic; or (c) are enrolled at a private or public establishment, accredited or financed by the Republic on the basis of the relevant legislation or administrative practice in force in the Republic, for the principal purpose of following a course of study, including vocational training courses, have comprehensive medical insurance cover in the Republic and assure the competent authority, by means of a declaration or by such equivalent means as they may choose, that they have sufficient resources for themselves and their family members not to become a burden on the Republic's social welfare system during their period of residence; or»The conditions for staying longer. Paragraph (d) and subsection (2), not quoted here, extend the right to family members.
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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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«Citizens of all EU Member States, as well as of Switzerland, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, can enter Cyprus with their identity card, as long as it bears their photo.»What an EU or EEA national needs at the border.
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The Republic's visa page at https://www.gov.cy/en/information/visas/, which is the one place the state says plainly what Cyprus's position outside Schengen means for a traveller: that visas and residence permits issued by the Republic have validity only for the Republic, and that only after full integration into the acquis will they carry a right of free movement in the rest of the Schengen area. It carries the types of visa with their durations, the fee table, the conditions of application, the categories not required to hold a visa, and the note telling applicants not to complete fields 25, 26 and 28 of the form. It also links the Republic's own PDF copies of the Annexes to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is an administrative page and not an instrument, and on the one point that matters most it is ahead of the statute rather than aligned with it: it publishes 90 days in any 180-day period, where article 9(4)(b)(i) of Cap. 105 still defines a visa for the Republic as permitting no more than three months in any half-year from the date of first entry. Its carve-out of Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens from the Schengen-document concession appears in no instrument read for this corpus. It carries no date of its own, so a change can only be detected by comparing readings. It cannot be cited for residence: entry for the purpose of residence is the Migration Department's, and the page says so.
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Practical notes
Cyprus is in the European Union and is not applying the Schengen acquis in full, so a Union citizen still crosses a border control on arrival. The identity card is enough to cross it.
A Union citizen who is a worker or self-employed person in the Republic, or who has acquired a right of permanent residence under this Law, is a beneficiary of the General Healthcare System by article 16(1)(β) of Law 89(I)/2001 - residence alone is not enough.
This record rests on the Office of the Law Commissioner's English translation, which says of itself that it does not replace the Law and that only the Official Gazette text is authentic. The Greek original was not read.
- consolidatesThe Right of Citizens of the Union and Certain Nationals of the United Kingdom and Their Family Members to Move and Reside Freely Within the Territory of the Republic of Cyprus Laws of 2007 to 2023 (English Translation and Consolidation)
Γραφείο Επιτρόπου Νομοθεσίας (Office of the Law Commissioner) · consolidated to 2024
Known to be out of date. The edition is of May 2024 and the last amending Act it names is 96(I) of 2023. Its own note says the English translation does not replace the Law and that only the Official Gazette text is authentic.
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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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- administersVisas
Republic of Cyprus, gov.cy (Ministry of Foreign Affairs visa information)
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The Republic's visa page at https://www.gov.cy/en/information/visas/, which is the one place the state says plainly what Cyprus's position outside Schengen means for a traveller: that visas and residence permits issued by the Republic have validity only for the Republic, and that only after full integration into the acquis will they carry a right of free movement in the rest of the Schengen area. It carries the types of visa with their durations, the fee table, the conditions of application, the categories not required to hold a visa, and the note telling applicants not to complete fields 25, 26 and 28 of the form. It also links the Republic's own PDF copies of the Annexes to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: It is an administrative page and not an instrument, and on the one point that matters most it is ahead of the statute rather than aligned with it: it publishes 90 days in any 180-day period, where article 9(4)(b)(i) of Cap. 105 still defines a visa for the Republic as permitting no more than three months in any half-year from the date of first entry. Its carve-out of Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens from the Schengen-document concession appears in no instrument read for this corpus. It carries no date of its own, so a change can only be detected by comparing readings. It cannot be cited for residence: entry for the purpose of residence is the Migration Department's, and the page says so.
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