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[eleni]

I'm inclined to think you got it right the first time

[annaka]

Thanks Miltiades, you're right, I looked at my ID as I hadn't bothered before and my husband's is the same. When I first came in 1994 permanently, my passport was stamped for three months only and my husband's didn't specify any length of time.

When I went to the office in Nicosia to renew the length of stay, some guy said to me in Cypriot dialect that there was "a window" and I'm thinking I have to go and queue up at another window somewhere. My husband was laughing his head off and said: "No, it means there is another method of getting the paperwork done" and the official explained for me to go for Cypriot nationality and still keep my British one. The whole procedure took me two months and my husband's application for Cypriot citizenship took only one month.

This means that we can both vote, which is something we both wanted to do.

We both had to swear in the Nicosia court that the forms we'd fill in were stating the truth of our entries and our local village mayor had to swear we'd lived in harmony for 37 years. Also the police had to sign that we had no criminal records in Cyprus.

Regards, Annaka