Visa information

Cyprus offers three named routes in the 2026 guide: Category F residence for financially independent people on about €10,000 a year of secured income, permanent residency through a €300k property investment, and a Digital Nomad visa at €3,500 a month for non-EU remote workers. The guide scores Cyprus 66/100 for visa and bureaucracy, and the paperwork stage is measured in weeks, not days, on every plan tier.

The three routes the guide names

Category F residence — for financially independent people, tested against secured income of about €10k a year (see below). The guide also names Category F as one of the two routes that suit retirees (see the Retirement page).

Permanent residency via property investment — €300k of property investment, described as fast-track. The guide repeats the figure in its schemes list as “€300k property fast-track residency.”

Digital Nomad visa — for non-EU remote workers, tested against income of €3,500 a month, running up to 3 years and quota-limited.

The income and investment tests — what the sources actually say

Unlike many guides in this series, this one prints figures for all three routes. For Category F, the test is about €10k/yr of secured income — the guide and the site data both carry the “~” in “~€10k/yr,” so treat it as approximate and confirm the current amount before filing. For the Digital Nomad visa, the test is €3,500/mo, for non-EU remote workers, and the remote-work line adds two limits: up to 3 years, quota-limited. Neither source gives the size of the quota.

For the property route, the figure is the investment itself: €300k. The guide gives no additional conditions — no property-type rules, no source-of-funds detail — so none is stated here.

At the guide's exchange rate of $1 ≈ €0.86, any dollar figure you are quoted converts at roughly that rate for planning.

What the paperwork costs — plan budgets, not government fees

The guide does not list individual government visa fees. What it gives is a bundled “Visa, permits & translations” budget line in each move plan, and those lines are the only sourced cost figures for the application itself:

• $950 — Affordable plan (you file yourself)
• $1,400 — Mid-range and Retirement plans
• $3,350 — Luxury plan (the plan notes the luxury tier adds an immigration lawyer)

The Retirement plan carries one further, separate line: $2,600 for “Retirement visa, lawyer & pension certification”, covering an immigration lawyer, apostilled pension letters, medicals and translations.

Application steps and timelines, by tier

The guide builds the application into each plan's timeline rather than printing a single step list. The common sequence across the plans and checklists is:

• Choose the route first and print its requirements; the Affordable checklist starts with “Visa route chosen and requirements printed.”
• Gather and legalise documents — apostilles and translations are named in every tier; the Retirement paperwork stage adds pension or income letters certified and apostilled, a police certificate, a medical, and birth and marriage certificates translated.
• Check your passport — the Affordable checklist requires a passport valid 18+ months.
• Arrange health insurance before you file (see the Hospitals page for the guide's first-year insurance budgets).
• File — yourself on the Affordable tier, or with a lawyer or agent on the Mid-range, Luxury and Retirement tiers.

Paperwork-stage durations in the guide: ~10 weeks filing yourself (Affordable), ~8 weeks with a lawyer or agent filing (Mid-range), ~6 weeks with a lawyer filing everything (Luxury), and ~14 weeks for the Retirement paperwork stage. After the move, the settle stage includes registering your address and opening a bank account.

Duration, renewals and the path onward — the honest limit of the guide

Two duration points are sourced: the property route is described outright as permanent residency, and the Digital Nomad visa runs up to 3 years, quota-limited. Neither the guide nor the site data gives renewal intervals for Category F, any years-to-citizenship timetable, or absence limits for any route, so this page states none. Treat those as things to confirm with an immigration lawyer or the authorities before you rely on them — the Retirement plan's lawyer line exists for exactly this kind of question.

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