Paphos Life

Hello Gary. As far as I am aware the confirmation that you have attended immigration and await receipt of your Biometric card should, I reapeat, should have let you through the airport immigration without your UK passport being stamped. But as we expats say out here "This is Cyprus and anything...

Anybody else having problems signing into their UK Cyngergy account. I believe their was problems for a while yesterday signing into Bank of Cyprus accounts.

Very lucky indeed that the bar owner(s) were probably very heavily insured.

Always reminds me of the times I was integrated with the American military and explaining GMT. With the forthcoming invasion, without British forces, by U.S. troops of a small part of Iran to protect he Straits of Hormus, they can use Washington time. Good luck.

Hello Jeba. I wasnt suggesting privatising the civil service, work culture-wise many are unemployable in the private sector. I was promoting that they should work to the same rules/standards as the private sector.

The whole civil service should be legally accountable and managed on the same lines as a commercial organisation, where they have to obey company rules, accountable financial management and customer relations or be fined and in some cases imprisoned. Senior & local civil servants should be legal...

You have it lay it out on a plate for them and give them the full details of the bank you want the refund paid into if its not the bank where they normally send your pension. I've had three refunds which were automatically paid into the bank where my pension is normally paid into.

For those of us that may have served in Gibraltar or have a connection with it. The unpopular Starmer Labour shambles masquerading as a government claims there will be no loss of sovereignty over the border deal with Spain. This is rubbish. If Gibraltar has to accept EU laws whenever they add or cha...

If you need a plumber in the Peyia area, I can recommend Antoni Tel: 99563174. Did a good job repairing a toilet in my annex. His English is not too good so if your requirements of him are complicated best write down what you want and have Google translate it into Greek.

I will take the completed form for MU3, passport, Yellow Slip and the previous three Cyprus immigration papers and out-of-date identity card I had since coming here in 2001 despite having an immigration stamp in my old passport stating that I am exempt any further immigration dealings. When will thi...

You can get away with DIY wills in the UK but Cyprus is different. UK citizens resident in Cyprus must stipulate in wills that they want Probabate either under UK Law or Cyprus Law, there is a hell of a difference. I'm not a lawyer just my understanding having resided here for 25 years.

Thank you, Paul.

Thank you, Trevor. Will be our fifth trip since we came in 2001.

Once you have made an appointment for a biometric Card do you go to the Aliens and Immigration Unit Corner of Eleftheriou Venizelou Ave. & Kaniggos St., 2nd floor, Eleftheriou Venizelou 22 for photo and fingerprints along with the relevant documentation. Confused as to whether its the new main p...

No, I doubt they will stop paying pensions abroad but this 'mean' government could do what they have done to government & service peoples pensions and deduct the UK tax from them before sending them abroad. Fortunetly by the time the civil service gets round to organising it the UK could be save...

Josef, was your wife travelling back from the UK or a Schengen country? If it was a Schengen country, immigration are correct. If however it was from the UK, Wendy at CRPG would be very interested in your wife's encounter with immigration as a case study. Wendy is at email address: info@crpg.com.cy....

For those of us who don't wish to visit the immigration office for the fifth time in 23 years and have no intention of travelling via the Schengen Zone, here is the opinion of CRPG Cyprus regarding the status of not opting for a ten year biometric card. Quote. From: info@crpg.com.cy 05/12/25 11:34 E...

The U.S. bank Citi Corp have enormous data centres in America that pay government and private pensions from many countries to people all over the world, keeps the cost down. The downside is they are closed for U.S. public holidays. The upside for us outside the U.K. is that should events happen in t...

Exactly my point, Mark. As UK residents in Cyprus, we can freely travel throughout Europe with our passport and our present Yellow Slips. A Cyprus issued Biometric Card is not recognised in many EU countries, hence the good old Yellow Slip has to be retained. The same Cyprus-issued Biometric Card is...

As I understand it, obtaining a Biometric card by August 2026 is NOT compulsory...YET for UK residents in Cyprus. A Biometric Card is very convenient if you are a frequent flyer to countries in the Schengen Zone and as an ID card in Cyprus, but many organisations still want to see your passport and ...