A Battle Worth Fighting On Legal Grounds

The Committee of Supervision and Control for the Cyprus Investment Programme has published its registry, listing all the licensed service providers for the Cyprus Citizenship by Investment Program.

If you plan to run a business from Cyprus, you will need to arrange both the company’s registration and your own right to live and work here. The Companies of Foreign Interests procedure allows qualifying businesses to employ third-country nationals, including owners who work in their own company.

For many families living outside Cyprus, Cypriot citizenship by descent is not simply an immigration matter. It is often about preserving a family link with Cyprus, regularising the status of children born abroad...

Permanent residence under Regulation 6(2), commonly referred to as Category 6.2, is one of the principal residence routes available in Cyprus for third-country nationals who wish to secure long-term residence...

Cyprus is on track to join the Schengen Area by 2026, with President Nikos Christodoulides confirming the country will be technically prepared by the end of this year.

Cyprus has introduced an accelerated citizenship pathway for highly skilled foreign employees working for qualifying companies in the Republic. This framework, sometimes called the "Golden Knowledge" route, allows eligible professionals to obtain citizenship after four or five years of qualifying residence, depending on their Greek language proficiency. The regime represents a significant development for international professionals who have established their careers and lives in Cyprus.

Cyprus offers a number of residence options for non-EU nationals, but the terminology is often confusing. Clients frequently hear expressions such as “pink slip”, “temporary residence”, “permanent residence”, “Category 6(2)”...

The UAE Golden Visa is a long-term residence visa introduced to attract foreign investment, entrepreneurship, and exceptional talent. Unlike standard UAE residency visas...

The Schengen zone, comprising 29 European countries and over 448 million citizens across 4.7 million km², offers one of the world's largest areas of free movement.

Schengen visa applications follow strict rules about which country must process your file—rules determined by your itinerary, not your preference. Misunderstanding these requirements can undermine an otherwise strong application, and a single-entry visa won't grant you access to Cyprus despite common assumptions about pan-European travel documents.

The Cypriot tax landscape has undergone a significant recalibration following the entry into force of a broad package of fiscal reforms, effective as from the 1st of January, 2026.

On 3 September 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "CJEU") delivered its judgment in Case C-798/24, Jautiva (the "Judgment"), addressing the compatibility of unrestricted public access to shareholder information with European Union ("EU") company law and data protection rules.

In January 2026, the European Commission unveiled its plan to overhaul the EU's Cybersecurity Act, a proposal now known as CSA2. It's the natural next step in a story that began years earlier with the EU's 2020 "5G Security Toolbox" - a set of voluntary recommendations encouraging Member States to be cautious about certain telecom suppliers. That voluntary approach produced patchy results: by most accounts, fewer than half of EU countries had actually acted on those recommendations. It is worth asking whether the adoption levels were however a failure of design, or a reflection of Member States reaching different conclusions about their risk exposures.

Federal Law No. 142-FZ on Amendment of Articles 6 and 30 of the Federal Law on Russian Federation Citizenship and Individual Regulations of the Russian Federation

The mechanism of the preliminary reference stands as one of the cornerstones of European Union law. It establishes a channel of judicial cooperation between the national courts of Member States and the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU"), ensuring the uniform interpretation and application of EU law across all Member States. Understanding this mechanism, and in particular the conditions under which a Cypriot court may invoke it, is of considerable practical importance for any party appearing in proceedings that raise a question of EU law.

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On 18 July the Tax Department published reminders on its website of approaching deadlines for submission of returns.

The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (‘CySEC') has issued a circular (C284 dated 5 November 2018)

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report on the treatment of incoming third country branches (TCB) under the national law of Member States (the ‘Report').

Lawyers from Elias Neocleous & Co look at the new rules and how the new regime will look for alternative investment fund managers.