Cyprus, at your own pace.
Cyprus offers two residency routes covered here, and they sit at different points on the same spectrum.
When rules change mid-way, the date your application is filed is what often decides which rules apply to you. Where are you right now?
Pick by how you live
2 routes, grouped by what Cyprus's system asks of you day to day — not by which visa is most talked about. Every figure below is what Immimaps has verified against Cyprus's official programme rules.
A pension or other steady income from outside the country, and no plan to take a local job.
Most of these sums are shown, not spent.
On most remote-work and retirement routes, the figure is proof of means — it sits in your own account until it's checked, and nothing is transferred. Routes where money genuinely moves are marked below.
route asks you to show a balance or income — once it's checked, it stays yours.
route places capital that is exposed until the hold period or conditions are met.
What keeping the visa actually asks of you
Counted from each route's own rules. Some routes lead to permanent residence or citizenship and some don't; the route cards below say which.
Pick a route, see the real commitment
Every official figure below is what Immimaps has verified for that route against Cyprus's official programme rules — not a marketing minimum. Service fees are what independent firms publish for the route, shown only once five or more are on file.
Cyprus's fast-track investment route to permanent residence, built around a qualifying real-estate, business or fund investment that must be kept in place for as long as the permit is held.
A renewable temporary permit for people supporting themselves on income earned outside Cyprus, often used as a bridge while a permanent-residence application is processed.
What each route costs, stage by stage
Added up from the official figures on file for each route — split into money spent for good, money locked and returned later, and money shown but never transferred. Not a modelled estimate.
Permanent Residence▾
At application
Decision — reported: 5 months.- Spent for goodOfficial fees: €500, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Locked€300,000 placed as capital — recoverable in principle, exposed in practice.
Temporary Visitor Permit (Pink Slip)▾
At application
- Spent for goodOfficial fees: €140, paid to the government for the initial application.
- Shown, never leaves you€24,000 shown as proof of means every year — nothing is transferred.
The order Temporary Visitor Permit (Pink Slip) follows
No confirmed rule change has been flagged for Cyprus since it was last checked against the official gov.cy portal on 2026-08-29. Immimaps keeps watching official immigration sources and will list dated changes here as soon as one is confirmed.
Check the gov.cy portal directly →The cost calculator separates money spent for good from money that's only shown or locked up.
Open the cost calculatorUpload it and Immimaps checks it against what Cyprus's official programme actually requires, and reads the contract clause by clause. Free, no account.
Check my documentEvery official figure on this page is checked against Cyprus's official immigration sources. Service fees are what independent firms publish for a route — not an official figure, and never any one firm's price. Immimaps does not publish success rates, approval odds or any probability score — here or anywhere else.
Don’t take a life-changing move on someone else’s word.
Immimaps is not an agency and takes no placement fees. We show the real figures on every route, show the working, and tell you what it actually costs.
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