A Union Visa List, a Cypriot Visa That Stops at the Coast, and a Statute That Still Counts in Half-Years
Answer
The general rule applies to you
No exception is recorded for citizens of Denmark 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 Denmark to Cyprus · Visiting as a tourist
Who needs a visa for Cyprus is settled by Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, which binds Cyprus as it binds every member state: Annex I nationals must hold a visa to cross the external border, Annex II nationals are exempt for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period. What the visa is worth is where Cyprus parts company with the rest of the Union. It is in a position of its own: Ireland is outside the common visa policy altogether and writes its own list under its Immigration Act, while every other member state issues a Schengen visa good across the area. The Republic is not applying the Schengen acquis in full, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs says so in terms on its own visa page: visas and residence permits issued by the Republic have validity only for the Republic, and the application form carries a note that the visa does not grant the right to free movement within the rest of the Schengen area. The traffic runs one way, though. A holder of a two-entry or multiple-entry Schengen visa, or of a national visa or residence permit issued by a Schengen member state, needs no Cypriot visa for a stay of up to 90 days in any 180 - with Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens expressly carved out of that concession. A visa issued at the border entitles the holder to 15 days. The Aliens and Immigration Law underneath all of this was last amended on this point in 2004 and has never caught up: article 9(4)(b)(i) still defines a visa for the Republic as one permitting no more than three months in any half-year counted from the date of first entry, which is a different sum from 90 days in any rolling 180.
At a glance
- Visa for an Annex II nationality
- Not required for 90 days in any 180-day period
Article 4(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, which applies to the external borders of the Member States.
- Visa for an Annex I nationality
- Required, and issued by a Cypriot mission rather than under the Schengen Visa Code
Article 3(1) of Regulation (EU) 2018/1806, and the Ministry's own statement that the Republic has harmonised its visa procedures, documents, fees and sticker with the Schengen member states while its visas remain valid only for Cyprus.
- Where a Cypriot visa is valid
- Only for the territory of the Republic of Cyprus
Stated twice on the Republic's visa page: once for visas and residence permits generally, and once as a note on the application form.
- Holding a Schengen visa instead
- Admits you for up to 90 days in any 180, except for Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens
The Republic's visa page lists holders of a valid two- or multiple-entry Schengen visa, and holders of national visas and residence permits issued by Schengen member states, among those not required to hold a Cypriot short-stay visa.
- Visa issued at the border
- Up to 15 days
The Republic's visa page; article 9A(3) of Cap. 105 sets the same 15 days, and 5 days for a transit.
- Short-stay visa fee
- EUR 90, EUR 45 for children aged 6 to 12, free under 6
The fee table on the Republic's visa page. A visa extension costs EUR 30 and is free where force majeure or humanitarian reasons are proved.
- Travel medical insurance
- At least EUR 30,000
Listed among the visa application conditions on the Republic's visa page, and required to cover repatriation for medical reasons and emergency treatment.
- What the statute still says
- Three months in any half-year from the date of first entry
Article 9(4)(b)(i) of Cap. 105, inserted by Law 178(I) of 2004 and not amended since. This is not the measure the Ministry applies.
Requirements
- A passport valid at least three months beyond the intended departure, with two blank pages, issued within the previous ten years
- A visa from a Cypriot diplomatic mission if your nationality is in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 and you hold no qualifying Schengen document
- Travel medical insurance of at least EUR 30,000 where a visa is applied for
- A stay of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period
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.
What applies to you
Nothing changes for a citizen of Denmark
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
«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex I shall be required to be in possession of a visa when crossing the external borders of the Member States.»The requirement, as a list of nationalities rather than a test about the traveller.
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The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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«Nationals of third countries listed in Annex II shall be exempt from the requirement set out in Article 3(1) for stays of no more than 90 days in any 180-day period.»The exemption and its measure. Cyprus is a Member State and the Regulation is directly applicable to it.
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The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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«A visa means an authorisation issued by Cyprus Republic to some third country nationals: – for a short stay (up to 90 days within any 180-day period) (more on the calculation of the maximum length of stay you may visit the link) or – for transit purposes»The Republic's own definition of what one of its visas is for.
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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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«Currently, visas and residence permits issued by the Republic of Cyprus have only validity for the Republic of Cyprus, while after its full integration into the Schengen aquis, the visas and residence permits issued by the Republic of Cyprus will give the right to free movement up to 90 days within any 180-day period in the rest of the Schengen area.»The sentence that makes Cyprus different from every other member state in this corpus, in the Republic's own words and its own spelling of acquis.
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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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«Until the full integration of the Republic of Cyprus to the enhanced Schengen cooperation area, visa applicants are not required to fill in fields 25, 26, and 28. The visa is valid only for the territory of the Republic of Cyprus and does not grant the right to free movement within the rest of the Schengen area.»The same limit, restated as an instruction about the application form.
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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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«Holders of a valid Schengen visa for two or multiple entries, as well as holders of national visas and residence permits issued by Schengen Member States are not required to hold a short-stay visa to enter the Republic of Cyprus for a period not exceeding 90 days in any 180-day period. Turkish and Azerbaijani citizens are exempted from the above provision.»The concession that runs the other way, and the two nationalities taken out of it.
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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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«A visa issued at the external borders is a uniform visa, which entitles the holder to stay up to 15 days, depending on the purpose and conditions of the intended stay.»The border visa.
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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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«Submitted passports must be recognised by the Republic of Cyprus and meet the following criteria: (a) its validity shall extend at least three months after the intended date of departure from the territory of Cyprus (b) it shall contain at least two blank pages; (c) it shall have been issued within the previous 10 years.»What the passport itself has to satisfy.
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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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«The possession of a valid visa does not grant the holder an automatic and unconditional right of entry into the Republic of Cyprus. The applicant may also be asked to provide some additional information upon arrival.»A visa is not an entitlement to enter.
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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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««θεώρηση» σημαίνει εξουσιοδότηση που εκδίδεται από τη Δημοκρατία για - (i) Μία ή περισσότερες εισόδους στη Δημοκρατία, χωρίς ούτε η διάρκεια συνεχούς παραμονής ούτε η διάρκεια των διαδοχικών παραμονών να μπορεί να υπερβεί τους τρεις μήνες ανά εξάμηνο από την ημερομηνία της πρώτης εισόδου»Our translation - not official
(b) For the purposes of this subsection 'visa' means an authorisation issued by the Republic for - (i) One or more entries into the Republic, where neither the duration of a continuous stay nor the duration of successive stays may exceed three months per half-year from the date of first entry
The measure the Act still carries. It is the formula of article 11(1)(a) of the Schengen Implementing Convention as it stood before Regulation (EU) No 610/2013 replaced it with 90 days in any 180.
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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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«διαβατήριο του φέρει Κυπριακή προξενική θεώρηση, και οποιοσδήποτε αλλοδαπός ενεργεί κατά παράβαση του παρόντος εδαφίου, θεωρείται απαγορευμένος μετανάστης.»Our translation - not official
his passport bears a Cypriot consular visa, and any alien acting in breach of this subsection is considered a prohibited immigrant.
Substituted by article 3(a) of Law 220(I) of 2002. Before that amendment the Act required a British consular visa, and article 6(1)(λ) still does.
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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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«Συμβούλιο, από καιρό σε καιρό, καθορίζει με Διάταγμά του (i) Τους υπηκόους οποιασδήποτε χώρας ή οποιαδήποτε τάξη προσώπων για τους οποίους δεν απαιτείται Κυπριακή προξενική θεώρηση· και (ii) τους υπηκόους οποιασδήποτε χώρας ή οποιαδήποτε τάξη προσώπων για τους οποίους απαιτείται Κυπριακή προξενική θεώρηση.»Our translation - not official
The Council of Ministers shall from time to time determine by Order (i) The nationals of any country or any class of persons for whom a Cypriot consular visa is not required; and (ii) the nationals of any country or any class of persons for whom a Cypriot consular visa is required.
The national machinery for a visa list. The list itself is an Order of the Council of Ministers and was not read for this record; the Republic's visa page publishes the Union's Annex I and Annex II instead.
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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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«(3) Θεωρήσεις που εκδίδονται στα σύνορα δεν θα ισχύουν για περισσότερες της μίας εισόδου και η ισχύς της θεώρησης κατά την έννοια του άρθρου 9(4)(β) δεν θα υπερβαίνει τις 15 ημέρες και σε περίπτωση διέλευσης τις 5 ημέρες.»Our translation - not official
(3) Visas issued at the border shall not be valid for more than one entry and the validity of the visa within the meaning of article 9(4)(b) shall not exceed 15 days and, in the case of transit, 5 days.
The border visa in the Act, agreeing with the Ministry's 15 days.
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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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«6.—(1) Τα ακόλουθα πρόσωπα θα είναι απαγορευμένοι μετανάστες»Our translation - not official
6.-(1) The following persons shall be prohibited immigrants
The opening of the list of prohibited immigrants, which is where refusal of entry is grounded. Article 9(1) and 9(2) both work by deeming a person who arrives without a passport or without a Cypriot consular visa to be a prohibited immigrant.
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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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Practical notes
Cyprus is the only member of the European Union in this corpus that is not applying the Schengen acquis in full, so the 90 days you may spend here are not the 90 days you may spend in the Schengen area. None of the texts read for this record says how the two counts interact, and nothing here should be read as saying they are separate or that they are shared.
The visa list itself is not reproduced. The Republic publishes its own copy of the Annexes to Regulation (EU) 2018/1806 as a PDF linked from its visa page; that PDF was not read, and the Annexes in the stored consolidated text of the Regulation are what the two origin-group records rest on.
An ETIAS travel authorisation under Regulation (EU) 2018/1240 is not mentioned on the Republic's visa page and no Cypriot instrument read for this record names it.
Entry for the purpose of residence is a different route from a tourist visa: the Migration Department issues an entry permit, and its own page says that where an entry visa is not required the competent authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
- consolidatesRegulation (EU) 2018/1806, consolidated text
EUR-Lex, Publications Office of the European Union · consolidated to 2025-12-30
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The Union's legal database. Publishes each act as adopted in the Official Journal and, separately, a consolidated version carrying every amendment to a stated date, identified as 0YYYYRNNNN-YYYYMMDD. The consolidated text marks each amended passage with the instrument that changed it.
Standing: Maintains the text in force
Cannot be cited for: A consolidated text is explicitly not authentic - EUR-Lex says so on the document - and only the Official Journal version has legal force. It also says nothing about how any member state applies the act: a regulation is directly applicable but the border practice, the evidence an officer may ask for and the national exceptions are in national law, which is published elsewhere.
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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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- consolidatesΟ περί Αλλοδαπών και Μεταναστεύσεως Νόμος (ΚΕΦ.105), Ενοποίηση στην Ελληνική
Γραφείο Επιτρόπου Νομοθεσίας (Office of the Law Commissioner) · consolidated to 2024
Known to be out of date. The edition is of August 2024 and the last amending Act it names is 111(I) of 2024. Anything enacted since is not in it, and the edition itself says it is not a consolidation in the proper sense and that only the printed Official Gazette 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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- administersEntry in Cyprus, Migration Department
Deputy Ministry of Migration and International Protection, Migration Department
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The department that decides every residence application in Cyprus, publishing at https://www.gov.cy/mip-md/ in Greek and at /mip-md/en/ in English. Its pages are the operative text for routes the statute leaves open: the Category A to F criteria for an immigration permit, the fourth revision of the investor criteria in force since 2 May 2023, the single-permit employment page with its fees and its four-year ceiling, the students page, the family-members-of-Cypriots page, and the entry page. Each carries a Posted On date. The site answers a plain request through the extraction service; a direct fetch with a default user agent is refused with 403.
Standing: Applies the rule
Cannot be cited for: **It publishes policy and calls it criteria, and much of that policy has no instrument behind it.** The entire investor route rests on Regulation 6(2) of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations, a residual discretion that names no sum; the EUR 300,000, the four investment categories, the EUR 50,000 income and the multiplication for adult children are the Department's and can change by a fifth revision without anything being published in the Gazette. The same is true of the policy for third-country family members of Cypriot citizens and of the four-year ceiling on employment. Where it restates a statute it sometimes does not match it: its Category F page adds three conditions Regulation 5(f) does not contain - that the income come from abroad, that it allow a decent living, and that the holder not work - and reads the First Schedule's figures as Cyprus pounds, publishing EUR 9,568 and EUR 4,613 where the Office of the Law Commissioner's edition prints EUR 5,600 and 2,700. Its Category A capital of approximately EUR 430,000 does not match the EUR 341,720 in the Regulations either. It cannot be cited for the text of Cap. 105 or of the Regulations, nor for visas: it says itself that where an entry visa is not required the competent authority is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
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