Residence permits and certificates issued by Cypriot authorities: who gets them, when the application is due and where to go.
Questions in this section
- Renewing a visitor's residence permit in Cyprus, and what can be filed onlineThird-country nationals living in Cyprus on a visitor's permit: long holidays, looking into moving here, or living as the dependent spouse or child of someone with the same permit. Economic activity is not allowed on it — that is written into the regulation itself.
- How an EU citizen gets a registration certificate in CyprusCitizens of the EU, the EEA and Switzerland staying in Cyprus for more than three months, and their family members who are also Union citizens. Family members from third countries need a different document, not MEU1.
What is most often misunderstood
- The page's most practical deadline is missing from the English version — Renewing a visitor's residence permit in Cyprus, and what can be filed online
- The four months are your deadline, counted from the day of entry — not from the end of the three free months — How an EU citizen gets a registration certificate in Cyprus