Which immigration office sheet do I print?
The one for the district you live in, not the one nearest to you. The Migration Department sends everyone living outside Nicosia district to the police unit of their own district, and Nicosia district residents to its central offices.
| District | Office | Dial first | Appointments | Sheet |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nicosia | Migration Department (CRMD), Archbishop Makarios III Avenue 90, 1077 Nicosia | 22 308808 | Not on the police email scheme | |
| Nicosia | Police Aliens and Immigration Unit, 6 Agamemnonos, Egkomi, 2411 Nicosia | 22 802360 | Not on the police email scheme | |
| Limassol | Police Aliens and Immigration Unit, 223 Franglinou Rousvelt, Zakaki, 3046 Limassol | 25 805650 | limetiseis@police.gov.cy | |
| Larnaca | Police Aliens and Immigration Unit, 34 Tasou Mitsopoulou, 6027 Larnaca | 24 804223 | larnacaetiseis@police.gov.cy | |
| Paphos | Police Aliens and Immigration Unit, 22 Eleftheriou Venizelou, corner of Kanigos, 8021 Paphos | 26 806222 | pafosetiseis@police.gov.cy | |
| Paralimni (Famagusta district) | Police Aliens and Immigration Unit, 31 G. Papadopoulou, 5282 Paralimni | 23 803286 | famagustaetiseis@police.gov.cy |
Nicosia
PDFMigration Department (CRMD), Archbishop Makarios III Avenue 90, 1077 Nicosia
22 308808Not on the police email scheme
Nicosia
PDFPolice Aliens and Immigration Unit, 6 Agamemnonos, Egkomi, 2411 Nicosia
22 802360Not on the police email scheme
Limassol
PDFPolice Aliens and Immigration Unit, 223 Franglinou Rousvelt, Zakaki, 3046 Limassol
25 805650limetiseis@police.gov.cy
Larnaca
PDFPolice Aliens and Immigration Unit, 34 Tasou Mitsopoulou, 6027 Larnaca
24 804223larnacaetiseis@police.gov.cy
Paphos
PDFPolice Aliens and Immigration Unit, 22 Eleftheriou Venizelou, corner of Kanigos, 8021 Paphos
26 806222pafosetiseis@police.gov.cy
Paralimni (Famagusta district)
PDFPolice Aliens and Immigration Unit, 31 G. Papadopoulou, 5282 Paralimni
23 803286famagustaetiseis@police.gov.cy
"Dial first" is the number that appears in more than one government record. Addresses, phones and mailboxes from the gov.cy police branch directory (English and Greek editions), the police appointment sheet and the Migration Department's contact page, all checked on 23 September 2026. Each district has its own guide: all immigration offices.
What is on each sheet?
- Address and how to find the door: building, floor, the other spellings of the street, and the building people walk into by mistake.
- Every published phone number: the one to dial first in bold, then each government record's list with its date, and the fax.
- How that office books: the district mailbox and the ten details the police ask for, or, in Nicosia, which services need an appointment and which are first come, first served.
- Hours and last entry: the two ranges that get copied into each other.
- What to bring: a tick-box list built from the details the appointment sheet and the forms ask for.
- The local traps: wrong hours, wrong postcodes and look-alike numbers that circulate for that office.
- Your visit: lines to write down the date, time, File Number and ARC, so the sheet goes in the folder with your documents.
- One file per district: four A4 pages each, so you download and print only your own office.
What each district's sheet warns you about
The five sheets share a layout, not their content. These are the points that differ by office, and they are the reason a single national checklist gets people sent home.
Nicosia
Nicosia-district residents, and the eleven Nicosia-only categories from any district. Two offices, two buildings, two sets of hours.
- Migration Department: free visitor parking; parking for people with disabilities and the accessible entrance are reached from Saronikou Street.
- Police unit: the street is written Engomi or Egkomi. It is a different building from the Migration Department, not a desk inside it.
- The Aliens and Immigration Unit headquarters in Strovolos (Dasoupolis) is a police command with no public counter.
- The two buildings open in the opposite order: Egkomi at 07:30, the Migration Department at 08:00. Arriving at the Migration Department at 14:10 gets you turned away from a building that is visibly open.
- The Asylum Service is at Archiepiskopou Makariou 70, twenty door numbers from the Migration Department at 90. Asylum goes there; residence permits do not.
- The two directory editions share no phone number for the Egkomi unit. 22 802360 is the newer Greek edition's.
Limassol
All Limassol-district residents. There is no Migration Department office in Limassol; this police unit takes the application and your biometrics.
- The "D. Nikolaou" building, 2nd floor: a plain commercial block on a main road, not a police station front desk. Signage is in Greek and English.
- Franglinou Rousvelt is Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, on the western side of the city near the port. Tell a taxi "Zakaki". Waze may show the street as Oinouson.
- An 08:00 opening is the Migration Department's range, and a 13:30 close comes from map listings. The police publish 07:30 to 14:30.
- The Nicosia switchboard 22 308808 does not hold your Limassol file. Call the district unit.
- The two directory editions share no number for this office: English 25 805210, 25 805212, 25 805650; Greek 25 805211. All four are government numbers.
Larnaca
All Larnaca-district residents. The police unit builds the file and takes your biometrics; non-EU files are decided in Nicosia.
- In the Piale Pasa quarter, also written Piyale Paşa or Πιαλέ Πασά.
- Street numbers such as "Piale Pashia 142" and "Piale Pasa 75" circulate online. The government address is 34 Tasou Mitsopoulou.
- Airport passport control (24 804623, 24 804621) shares the 24 804 prefix. One wrong digit reaches a real desk that cannot help with a permit.
- 24 804223 is the only number all three government records share. 24 804242 and 24 804469 circulate on listings and appear on no government page.
- An 08:00 opening and a 13:30 close circulate. The police publish 07:30 to 14:30.
Paphos
All Paphos-district residents. The police unit takes the application and the biometrics, on the second floor of the Venizelou building.
- A residential-style block on the avenue, not a civic building, 2nd floor, in Ktima (upper Paphos). Allow a few extra minutes the first time.
- The cross-street is spelt Kanigos by gov.cy, Kaningos or Kaniggos on maps, Κάνιγγος in Greek.
- Immigration numbers begin 26 806; the District Administration's begin 26 801 (switchboard 26 801200). The Police Divisional Headquarters also sits in the 26 806 block (26 806021), so tell it apart by what it does.
- 26 806221 and 26 806200 circulate on listings and appear on no government page. 26 806211 is the government number one digit away.
- At least six different opening ranges circulate. The police publish 07:30 to 14:30.
Paralimni (Famagusta district)
The whole Republic-controlled Famagusta district: Paralimni and Protaras, Ayia Napa, Deryneia, Sotira, Frenaros, Liopetri, Avgorou and Xylofagou. In Ormideia or Xylotymbou, check which district your address is registered in.
- The office is in Paralimni, not in Famagusta city, which has been under Turkish occupation since 1974.
- Postcode 5282 is the one gov.cy and UNHCR print and the one that belongs on a form; map apps show 5283.
- Paralimni Police Station, Korai and Agiou Dimitriou 51 (23 803024), is ordinary policing, not the immigration unit.
- An 08:00 opening and a 13:30 close circulate. The police publish 07:30 to 14:30.
† Two government addresses. The English edition of the police directory (modified 31 December 2025) gives 31 G. Papadopoulou, 5282 Paralimni, fax 23 811308. The newer Greek edition (modified 30 March 2026) gives Eleftherias 83, TAPOLOS Bld, Deryneia Plaza, 1st floor, 5380 Deryneia, fax 23 803278; the Famagusta Citizens Service Centre is also listed at Eleftherias 83. gov.cy does not say which is current. 23 803286 is in both editions and on the appointment sheet: call it and confirm the building before you travel.
How do I ask for an immigration appointment by email?
Limassol, Larnaca, Paphos and the Famagusta district each have a mailbox on the police appointment sheet. Write at least one month before the expiry date of your current residence permit or entry visa, send one request per family, write the personal details in capital letters, and include these ten fields:
- Name and surname
- Date of birth
- Nationality
- Passport number
- Date of last arrival in Cyprus
- Alien Registration Card (ARC) number
- Expiry date of the residence permit
- File Number (MP)
- Number of persons applying
- Local telephone number
The sheet says the answer comes within five working days, that you can amend or cancel afterwards, and that there is no need to repeat the request. It also lists a telephone centre for each district, and it presents email as an option added in addition to the call centre from 23 May 2023.
If someone points you to crmd.simplybook.pro, that is not the route the police publish today. I have found no government page saying when, or whether, it was switched off, so treat any shut-off date you read as unconfirmed. A site that offers to book your slot for a fee is not the department.
What are the immigration office opening hours in Cyprus?
Every district police Aliens and Immigration Unit publishes Monday to Friday, 07:30 to 14:30, with no last-entry time. The Migration Department in Nicosia publishes 08:00 to 14:30, last entry 14:00, Monday to Friday excluding public holidays. Both editions of the police directory give 07:30 to 14:30 for every district by name, and the Migration Department's appointments page gives its own range with the 14:00 last entry.
A 13:30 close and an 08:00 opening circulate for the district units on map listings and AI answers; neither is on a government page. Offices are closed on public holidays, and the 2026 public holidays calendar lists them.
Which applications can only be filed in Nicosia?
The Migration Department lists eleven categories that are examined only at its central offices in Nicosia, wherever you live:
- Migration Permits (Categories A to F)
- Long-Term Resident Status
- Educational Institutions (entry permit applications)
- Research Centres (entry permit applications)
- Foreign Interests Companies
- EU Blue Card
- Shipping Companies
- Intra-Corporate Transfers
- Digital Nomads
- Start-up Visa
- Visitor, monitoring of a programme
For anything else, a resident of another district is served at the Nicosia central offices only through a duly authorised representative whose professional office is based in Nicosia, and the eleven categories above are expressly exempt from that arrangement. Those are the government's words on the appointments page as fetched on 23 September 2026. Every sheet prints this list, because a Paphos resident with a Digital Nomad file needs the Nicosia page, not the Paphos one.
How do I check my application status?
Send an SMS to 1199 with the text STATUS, a space and your application number, for example STATUS 1234/2016. It costs €0.034 a message and needs no registration. The application number is on the Γ.Λ. 301B receipt you were given when you paid the fee, according to the Migration Department's SMS page.
1199€0.034STATUS 1234/2016€0.034What it can tell you is the progress of that one application. It cannot book or move an appointment, and there is no public lookup by passport number. For anything else, contact whoever holds the file: your district unit while a file is being built, the Migration Department for a decision.
What should I bring to the appointment?
The sheet's tick-box list is the baseline the police appointment sheet and the application forms ask for. Your category's own document list decides the rest, so check it against the form you are filing.
- Valid passport, and a copy of the photo page
- Alien Registration Card (ARC) and File Number (MP), if you already have a file
- Your current residence permit or entry visa, and the date you last arrived in Cyprus
- The application form for your category, downloaded from gov.cy, with its document list
- Proof of address: for the Yellow Slip, a title deed or a rental agreement stamped by the Commissioner of Stamp Duty; other categories set their own
- Health insurance certificate, where your category's list asks for one
- The Γ.Λ. 301B fee receipt, if you have already paid
- The appointment reply email, printed, and a local phone number
EU citizens registering for the Yellow Slip have a full document list per ground in the Yellow Slip checklist PDF.
Questions about the district appointment sheets
The one for the district you live in. Outside Nicosia district that is the police Aliens and Immigration Unit: Limassol in Zakaki, Larnaca on Tasou Mitsopoulou, Paphos on Eleftheriou Venizelou, and Paralimni for the Famagusta district. Nicosia-district residents go to the Migration Department at Archbishop Makarios III Avenue 90. Eleven categories, such as the EU Blue Card and the Digital Nomad visa, are examined only in Nicosia wherever you live.
Related help
The sheets are free and enough to get you to the right counter on the right morning. If you want your documents checked before you go, the first option below is free.
Sources
- 1.Cyprus Police, Aliens and Immigration Service branch directory, English edition (modified 31 December 2025) (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)
- 2.Cyprus Police, branch directory, Greek edition (modified 30 March 2026) (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)
- 3.Cyprus Police appointment sheet for the district units (553d2b.pdf, sheet dated 23 May 2023) (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)
- 4.Migration Department, public service instructions: appointments (posted 19 December 2025) (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)
- 5.Migration Department, contact us (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)
- 6.Migration Department, submission offices and service hours (verified 2 Sep 2026)(verified 2 Sep 2026)
- 7.Migration Department, SMS notifications (verified 23 Sep 2026)(verified 23 Sep 2026)