Cyprus has helped thousands of people to be a European citizen by providing Cyprus Citizenship by Invest Program.
Cyprus offers the quickest, most assured route to citizenship of a European country.
Cyprus is unique in its offering of citizenship within just 6 months of such an investment.
In this article, you will read about everything in detail about all the what, why and hows regarding Cyprus Citizenship.
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The minimum investment required is €2.000.000
Yes, you read that right. With an investment of 2 Million Euros, you can get the Cyprus Citizenship.
Represent your personal and family economic and professional profile.
KYC (know your client procedures personal and family), Economic conditions checks, clear criminal records, and other due diligence and banking KYC checking procedures.
The entire application process for obtaining citizenship takes approximately 6 months.
The ministries of Interior and Finance examine the application for naturalization and present it to the Council of Ministers for approval. The process takes around 6 months.
There is no requirement for applicants to live in Cyprus prior, during, or after the application process.
Even being in your own country, you can apply to a Cyprus Citizenship. No need to be in Cyprus during the process.
There are no language requirements.
You don’t speak Greek? Well, no problem.
Cyprus accepts all the nationalities. You don’t need to know Greek to become a citizen of Cyprus.
Investors must keep their investments for a period of five years, after which they will be eligible to sell, provided that they keep a personal residence property worth €500,000.
Applicants are required to donate €150,000 on top of the investment amount.
An investment of €2.0 million in real estate is required to get a Cyprus Citizenship, plus a donation of €75,000 to the Government’s Research and Development fund and €75,000 to the Land Development Organisation.
Citizenship is obtained by the spouses, minor children (below 18) and adult financially dependent children up to the age of 28.
The investor can also include his/her parents in the application.
Even though you are applying for citizenship, your parents can also come and live with you after approval.
Second citizenship is allowed in Cyprus.
Cyprus allows you to maintain additional citizenship.
No tax consequences whatsoever when someone is obtaining Cyprus citizenship.
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