Cypriot Citizenship

Right to apply

This application can be submitted by foreign adults of full mental capacity. The applicants should reside legally in Cyprus for 7 or 5 years, depending on their residence status prior to the submission of the application. The applicant should reside legally and continuously the year prior to the submission of the application.

Cases for which 7 years of residence in the Republic are required: foreigners who hold a residence permit as students, visitors, self-employed, athletes, coaches, sports technicians, domestic helpers, nurses, employees of Cypriot or foreign employers or offshore companies and who reside in the Republic solely for the purpose of work, as well as their spouses, adult children or other dependents should accumulate a total stay in the Republic of at least 7 years within the previous at least 7 years. (in the period of 7 years, the last 12 months before the submission of the application are included).

Cases for which 5 years of residence in the Republic are required: foreigners who hold any other status (apart from those mentioned above), should accumulate a total residence in the Republic of 5 years within the immediately preceding 7 years from the 12-month period that precedes the application.

Right to apply

Applications Can Be Submitted:

• by foreign spouses of Cypriot nationals, which completed three (3) years of marriage prior to the date of application (at least the last two years before the submission of the application should be residing in the Republic).

• by foreign spouses of Cypriot nationals, which completed three (3) years of marriage prior to the date of application and are living permanently abroad.

Right to apply

This application can be submitted for minors, whose parents acquired the Cypriot citizenship after the birth of the minor applicant, either by registration(due to Cypriot origin) or naturalization(due to years of legal residence in Cyprus).

Right to apply

It can be submitted by persons born prior to the 16th of August 1960, who are not citizens of the United Kingdom and its former colonies, who originate from Cyprus through the male line and reside permanently abroad.

Right to apply

It can be submitted by persons who were born abroad after the 16th of August 1960 and whose at least one parent at the time of their birth was a Cypriot citizen, or was entitled to acquire the Cypriot citizenship by registration due to Cypriot origin.

Right to apply

An application for the acquisition of Cypriot citizenship due to Cypriot origin by adults, of full capacity, who were born on or after August 161960, may be submitted if:
At the time of their birth neither of their parents was a citizen of the Republic of Cyprus- but any of them would be entitled to acquire the Cypriot citizenship by registration due to Cypriot origin- and they descend from a person of Cypriot origin who:

• Became a British citizen based on the Annexation of Cyprus Orders from 1914 until 1943 or

• was born in Cyprus between 5 November 1914 and 16 August 1960, during which time his parents habitually resided in Cyprus.

Right to apply

It can be submitted by adults of cypriot origins, who were born before the 16th of August 1960 and are British citizens or citizens of any State of the Commonwealth and have completed one year of legal residence in the Republic.