Roc Gone Bureaucracy Mad....
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Roc Gone Bureaucracy Mad....
by humanist » Sun Feb 11, 2007 12:15 am
In reference to Ioannou guy. This is bloody embarassing RoC get your act together,
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by zan » Sun Feb 11, 2007 3:54 am
Deportation looms for man who has been in Cyprus since age of four
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
A MAN who arrived in Cyprus in 1984 aged just three, is facing deportation back to Lebanon.
According to Politis newspaper, the man, Simos Ioannou, was arrested earlier this week, after police determined he was not a Cypriot citizen like his parents and eight siblings, because, unlike his family, he wasn't naturalised.
But the Interior Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Lazaros Savvides, said yesterday that “no decision will be made until the whole matter has been examined first by the minister and me”.
The matter was being discussed yesterday afternoon.
Ioannou’s family left Lebanon in 1981 when the war broke out. They first went to Germany, then Egypt where they stayed for 10 months before arriving in Cyprus in 1984.
After a few months, all the family members were christened into the Orthodox Church by the Archbishop at the time, Chrysostomos.
One by one, the family’s offspring acquired Cypriot citizenship, while in 2001, their parents did too.
Now 26, Ioannou has been applying for citizenship for the past four years, but all his applications have remained unanswered.
Ioannou told Politis newspaper how on Wednesday someone he didn't know called him and asked him if he was Simos the electrician.
“I replied yes and he said he had heard I was a very good electrician and he wanted me to make an electrical installation in his house,” Ioannou said.
“I accepted and we arranged to meet at the Nicosia Municipality car park, opposite the Holiday Inn. He also told me he would be holding his home’s designs in his hand to make finding him easier.
“At around 9pm I was there, I saw him, approached him and suddenly more than 10 policemen appeared.
“They arrested me and handcuffed me. They took me to the police’s Immigration and Aliens Service and at around 11 at night they took me to Central Prison, block 10, as if was Al Capone or something.”
His brothers and sisters were shocked at hearing about the incident on Thursday morning.
Being informed that their brother was to be deported, they addressed the Interior Ministry, where they were told that Simos’ arrest was made by the police and not on the ministry’s Immigration Department’s orders.
The Department also confirmed that Simos’ file contained a number of applications for residency permits and naturalisation.
And all because I admitted to being an electrician. Let the man go it is me you want.........I'm Spartacus
By Jacqueline Theodoulou
A MAN who arrived in Cyprus in 1984 aged just three, is facing deportation back to Lebanon.
According to Politis newspaper, the man, Simos Ioannou, was arrested earlier this week, after police determined he was not a Cypriot citizen like his parents and eight siblings, because, unlike his family, he wasn't naturalised.
But the Interior Ministry’s Permanent Secretary, Lazaros Savvides, said yesterday that “no decision will be made until the whole matter has been examined first by the minister and me”.
The matter was being discussed yesterday afternoon.
Ioannou’s family left Lebanon in 1981 when the war broke out. They first went to Germany, then Egypt where they stayed for 10 months before arriving in Cyprus in 1984.
After a few months, all the family members were christened into the Orthodox Church by the Archbishop at the time, Chrysostomos.
One by one, the family’s offspring acquired Cypriot citizenship, while in 2001, their parents did too.
Now 26, Ioannou has been applying for citizenship for the past four years, but all his applications have remained unanswered.
Ioannou told Politis newspaper how on Wednesday someone he didn't know called him and asked him if he was Simos the electrician.
“I replied yes and he said he had heard I was a very good electrician and he wanted me to make an electrical installation in his house,” Ioannou said.
“I accepted and we arranged to meet at the Nicosia Municipality car park, opposite the Holiday Inn. He also told me he would be holding his home’s designs in his hand to make finding him easier.
“At around 9pm I was there, I saw him, approached him and suddenly more than 10 policemen appeared.
“They arrested me and handcuffed me. They took me to the police’s Immigration and Aliens Service and at around 11 at night they took me to Central Prison, block 10, as if was Al Capone or something.”
His brothers and sisters were shocked at hearing about the incident on Thursday morning.
Being informed that their brother was to be deported, they addressed the Interior Ministry, where they were told that Simos’ arrest was made by the police and not on the ministry’s Immigration Department’s orders.
The Department also confirmed that Simos’ file contained a number of applications for residency permits and naturalisation.
And all because I admitted to being an electrician. Let the man go it is me you want.........I'm Spartacus
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