Are you an expat or an immigrant?
Are you an expat or an immigrant?
ARE YOU a Brit living abroad but apoplectic with rage about foreigners living in the UK? Here’s how to convince yourself there’s a difference.
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Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I guess if someone is Dark skinned you class them as an immigrant, but if your white you class yourself as an expat
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I don't see that the two are mutually exclusive.
Alastair
Nil illigitimi carborundum
Nil illigitimi carborundum
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I am quite happy to be an immigrant.
Web Designer / Developer. Currently working on Paphos Life.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I regard myself as both an expat and an immigrant
Those of us who arrived pre MEU1/3, and pre pink slip and have a brown book are also aliens!
Those of us who arrived pre MEU1/3, and pre pink slip and have a brown book are also aliens!
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I think its about time you phoned home.
Web Designer / Developer. Currently working on Paphos Life.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Living in Polemi, Cyprus with my wife and daughter.
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
When I worked abroad on short term contracts I classed myself as an Expat as my point of origin was still the UK. Moving to Cyprus I class myself as an Immigrant.
Jim
Jim
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
Yup I am an ex-pat immigrant as well as an aged Alien
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Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I was always happy to be an immigrant.
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Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I´d say an immigrant is someone who has settled in their new country for good whereas an expat might (or will) move on (or back). Not sure which group I belong to.
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Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I belong to the older alien category who became an expat immigrant.
Louise
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I think of myself as an expat, though like many others I was also classed as an alien by virtue of possessing ‘the little brown Alien Book’. Since then I’ve assembled a collection of pink and yellow slips, and also have a Cyprus ID card. But I might move on or back in the future. Still undecided.
Dee
Dee
Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
I think ID cards are only issued to Cypriot citizens now.Les Bean wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:40 pmHi, can you tell me how to get a Cyprus Id card, cos ours expired some time ago, and we now have the meu3 bits of paper which are not so easily transportableKili01 wrote: ↑Sun Dec 15, 2019 7:09 pm I think of myself as an expat, though like many others I was also classed as an alien by virtue of possessing ‘the little brown Alien Book’. Since then I’ve assembled a collection of pink and yellow slips, and also have a Cyprus ID card. But I might move on or back in the future. Still undecided.
Dee
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Re: Are you an expat or an immigrant?
Some UK expats were issued with I D cards back in the day, why the authorities stopped them, I'm not sure, one of the forum members might give us the answer.