The Unseen Crisis: How Cyprus Is Closing Its Doors to the Future of Tech and Startups

Problem 3 – Digital Nomad Visa: A beautiful and sad story of one innovation.

It is a story of an innovation marred by errors, miscommunication between departments, fraud, and greed.

01.06.2021: Seven months before the launch of the Digital Nomad Visa, Cyprus migration starts an online booking system for all types of residency permits.
But soon, free slots for all visa types in the online system are taken up by lawyers, agents, and software bots, becoming unavailable directly to ordinary people.
20.12.2021: Letters about problems in the online booking system are sent to ministries and agencies, detailing abuses, sale of appointments, the danger of corruption developing and creating a negative image of the whole migration system.
The information is noted but nothing changes.

17.02.2022: Cyprus migration publishes information about the launch of the Digital Nomad Visa with a limit of 100 visas.
03.03.2022: Due to high demand, the Digital Nomad Visa limit is increased to 500 visas.

13.04.2022: Offers for selling slots for Digital Nomad appear on various resources.

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