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Cyprus

Digital Nomad Visa

PR: NoUTC+3

The requirements

Programme status
Open, accepting applications
Minimum monthly income
$3,850 a month
Required savings
None
Annual total
$46,200
Initial duration
1 year, renewable to 3 total
Family allowed
Yes
Apply online
No, in person or by post

€3,500/month net; +20% spouse, +15% child.

How this figure is set: A fixed amount set in law or on the official page. The wording on the source is: 3500. Formula: EUR 3,500 net/month after taxes and contributions. The '+20% spouse / +15% child' uplift appears ONLY in secondary guides, not on the gov.cy page.

Income confidence: high · checked 2026-09-07
Legal basis: Council of Ministers decisions of 15 Oct 2021 and 3 Mar 2022 (as cited on gov.cy).

Does this lead to permanent residence?

No pathway. Max 3 yrs (1+2), no further renewal under this category; must switch permit to stay.

The Cyprus Digital Nomad Visa scheme (Council of Ministers decisions of 15 Oct 2021 and 3 Mar 2022, administered by the Civil Registry and Migration Department) caps the permit at 1+2 years with no further renewal in this category, so holders must switch to another permit to remain longer. That cap alone makes it impossible to reach the Civil Registry Law N.141(I)/2002 5-year long-term-residence threshold (transposing Directive 2003/109/EC) while staying on this permit. gov.cy is behind a bot-challenge that blocked direct fetches, so official content here is via search-index cache rather than a direct primary read.

Pathway confidence: medium · checked 2026-09-07

Where it is

Nicosia sits at 35.17° N, 33.36° E.

Cyprus picked out on a world map

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Time zone

  • UTC+3 Nicosia (Asia/Nicosia)

The country

Region
Europe · Southern Europe
Capital
Nicosia
Currency
EUR

Nearest

The countries covered here whose capitals are closest to Nicosia.

What it costs to live there

$1,419 per person, per month. That is what one resident of Cyprus spends in an average month with housing included — not what a newcomer renting at market rates will spend, which is higher, and furthest above it in the cheapest countries.

Nicosia
$1,475 / month incl. rent
of which rent $682
Limassol
$1,980 / month incl. rent
of which rent $1,093

City figures are crowdsourced from livingcost.net, not official: one person's monthly spending plus the rent of a one-bedroom flat outside the centre. They are here because a national average cannot show the spread between a capital and the places people actually move to. Checked 2026-09-20.

Cost of living confidence: high · checked 2026-09-20
World Bank national accounts, reference year 2025: households and NPISHs final consumption expenditure (NE.CON.PRVT.CD, current US$) divided by population (SP.POP.TOTL) and by twelve. This is what one resident spends in an average month with housing included, since national accounts count the imputed rent of owner-occupiers. It is an average over the whole population, not a visitor's budget, so a newly arrived remote worker renting at market rates will spend more - see the city figures for what that looks like.

Languages

  • Greek official
  • Turkish official
  • English widely spoken
  • French limited

Shares of the population from Unicode CLDR: official, then anything spoken by a quarter of the country, an eighth, or a fiftieth. It answers "will I be understood", not "how good is their English".

How to apply

  1. Check you clear the requirements above — $3,850 a month is the figure this row records.
  2. Gather what the official page asks for. Expect proof of income, a passport, health insurance and a criminal-record check as the common core.
  3. Apply in person or by post — this programme has no online route.
  4. Sort out where you will stay for the first stretch. Airlines check this at the desk and will not board you without it, whatever your visa says —what counts as proof of accommodation.
  5. Verify every figure on the official page before you spend money. Thresholds are set in local currency and move every year.

Migration Dept. page ↗

Quota 500 permits; consulate or CRMD in Cyprus; non-dom tax. The family uplift appears only in secondary guides.

A starting point, not advice. Figures are converted to US dollars at open-market rates; official thresholds are set in local currency. Sources: official source ↗. Data checked . Compiled by .