 | The Consular Section of the Cyprus High Commission in Canberra provides consular assistance and services to overseas Cypriots, which include citizen registration, identification documents and passport related matters, emergency travel documents, legalization of documents, etc. The Consulate also issues visas to foreign nationals who wish to visit Cyprus and offers a range of other services and information on Cyprus.
For more information please contact us at:
Cyprus High Commission
Consular Section
30 Beale Crescent
Deakin ACT 2600
Tel: +61 451 578 298
E-mail: hccanberraconsular@mfa.gov.cy
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 Visas
 WORKING HOLIDAY AGREEMENT BETWEEN CYPRUS AND AUSTRALIA
On the 25th of June 2002, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between the Government of Australia and the Government of the Republic of Cyprus, relating to working holiday visas. This Memorandum provides that from 1st July 2002 the Parties will issue multiple entry visas for working holidays for a period not exceeding nine (9) months within a year, to persons who satisfy each of the following requirements:
● In the case of applications by Cypriot citizens for visas to Australia, these must be Cypriot citizens who reside in Cyprus and in the case of applications by Australians for visas to Cyprus these must be Australian citizens who reside in Australia;
● The primary purpose must be to holiday in Australia or Cyprus, as the case may be, for a specified period;
● Applicants must be between eighteen (18) and thirty (30) years inclusive at the time of application for the visa;
● Only persons not accompanied by dependent children may apply;
● Applicants may have not previously taken part in the working holiday scheme;
● Applicants must possess a valid passport and a return travel ticket or sufficient funds with which to purchase such a ticket;
● Applicants must possess reasonable funds for their maintenance during the period of initial stay in Australia or Cyprus as the case may be; and
● Applicants must have good health and a sound background.
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CONSULAR ASSISTANCE AND PROTECTION
The right to diplomatic and consular protection constitutes an essential entitlement of citizenship of the European Union. This right marks the extension of the institution of EU citizenship to outside the borders of Member States. In that sense, Article 23 of the Lisbon Treaty states that
“Every citizen of the Union shall, in the territory of a third country in which the Member State of which he is a national is not represented, be entitled to protection by the diplomatic or consular authorities of any Member State, on the same conditions as the nationals of that State. Member States shall adopt the necessary provisions and start the international negotiations required to secure this protection.”
The citizen’s right to receive consular protection from a Member States under the same conditions which apply for the citizens of the Member State in question, is one of the special rights where the Treaty provides to the EU citizens and states an external dimension to the meaning of EU citizenship. This right enforces the idea of European solidarity, as well as the EU identification in third countries.
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APLLYING FOR CYPRIOT CITIZENSHIP
Ιn order to receive a Cypriot passport you are required to apply first for a Cypriot citizenship. The application can be submitted to our Offices and it will then be forwarded to the Civil Registry and Migration Department in Nicosia for examination of eligibility.
If the application is successful and you are granted a citizenship, then you can submit an application for a passport. Please note that both applications are processed in Nicosia and not by the High Commission and the required time varies according to each specific case.
In case you wish to start this process, please find enclosed herewith a copy of the preliminary application for you to complete and return to our Offices, accompanied by a copy of your birth certificate and your parents’ Cypriot passports and/or any other documents that prove your Cypriot origin. Upon examination of the preliminary application we will send you the appropriate application for Cypriot citizenship. |
BIRTH CERTIFICATES
MILITARY SERVICE
CIVIL MARRIAGE
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