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Self-Employed Profession or Science Immigration Permit

CyprusStarting a business

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Is this for a founder, startup entrepreneur, self-employed person, freelancer, company owner or another business profile?

Category D is for persons who intend to work as self-employed in an occupation or science in the Republic, provided they are duly qualified to practise that profession or science in Cyprus.

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  • Cyprus Migration Department, gov.cy
    Persons who intend to work as self-employed in an occupation or science in the Republic, provided that they are duly qualified to practice their profession or science in the Republic

What must actually exist or be demonstrated: business plan, company, innovation, clients, contracts, economic activity, job creation or other substance?

There must be a need for additional members of the applicant's profession or science in the Republic, and the applicant must be duly qualified to practise that profession or science in Cyprus.

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  • The requirement to be duly qualified to practise the profession or science in Cyprus appears in the same source sentence but is cited under R1 of this via.

What investment, capital, income, revenue, funding or viability evidence is central to this pathway?

Unlike Categories A, B and C, Category D does not state a fixed capital figure. The applicant must be in possession of sufficient funds or secured income to give effect to the stated intention of practising the profession or science.

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Limits of the record
  • No fixed minimum capital figure is published for Category D, unlike Categories A/B/C -- NOT_PUBLISHED (deliberately open-ended on this page), not omitted by oversight.

What business/self-employed activity may the holder conduct? Are there important restrictions? What is the family position where clearly stated?

The permit is for work as self-employed in an occupation or science in the Republic of Cyprus; the official source states no further activity rights or restrictions. A holder of an Immigration Permit can include their spouse and children under 18 as dependent persons on the permit (Regulation 8 of the Aliens and Immigration Regulations).

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Limits of the record
  • The source defines the permitted activity only through the category description (self-employment in an occupation or science), which is cited in R1; it states no further activity rights or restrictions.

What approval/application sequence applies, how long is the status granted, how is it renewed, and what longer-term residence direction is officially stated?

The Immigration Control Committee examines applications and recommends to the Deputy Minister of Migration and International Protection, the competent authority, who grants no permit unless the Committee recommends that the person belongs to one of the Regulation 5 categories. Applying gives no right to enter or remain without a valid residence permit or visa. The permit ceases to be valid if a holder residing outside Cyprus does not acquire residence in Cyprus within one year of approval, or if the holder acquires permanent residence abroad or is absent from Cyprus for two years. No fixed validity period or renewal procedure is stated.

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Limits of the record
  • The source states no fixed validity period or renewal procedure for the Immigration Permit.

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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