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[Sanja]

Hi everybody.
I joined the forum a few days ago...

I'm a 31 year old woman from Belgrade, Serbia. I visited Cyprus with a friend in 1996., for a vacation, but fell in love with it and stayed for almost 2 yrs. Like many foreigners at that time, being young and adventurous, we started working (bar woman + waitress), rented a flat, and never gave much thought to the fact that we were working illegaly, living illegaly... Days were going by, I had the best time of my life, untill october 1998. when I was taken in by the immigration, held in prison 8 days, and finnaly deported from Cyprus.
A year later I tried to go there once again, as I had a boyfriend waiting for me. The police found my name in some computer records they keep , and again I was deported from the airport back home.
Now...
8 yrs have passed. One day, I'm hoping in my near future, I would like to pay another visit to the island. JUST for a vacation, nothing else. This time with my family..
Does anyone know anything about the law... Back then, people told me that after a period of time, a few years, your name gets erased from those records, and you can visit the country normally.
But I need to be certain, of course.

Please, I would be very greatfull if someone would help me. If you don't know how these things work, can you at least suggest someone I should contact...?

Thanks.
Sanja

[Sanja]

Forgot to mention, if it's of any importance, I was living in Limassol.

[orokliniservices]

contact immigration.. they are the ones who will be able to answer all your questions.

[Denis_B]

Contact the Cyprus Embassy in Belgrade.

I know you think you were hard done by but I bet you paid no tax whilst working illegally!..... There are thousands like you in UK and I wish they could be rounded up and deported!

[queenslander]

You will never be allowed back But just think if you had registered and paid yor way you would be an EU ciitizen now

[anastasiaC]

You will never be allowed back But just think if you had registered and paid yor way you would be an EU ciitizen now

rub it in wont you?? haha

just talk to the embassy....you might be allowed back in

[simonwjones]

Contact the Cyprus Embassy in Belgrade.

I know you think you were hard done by but I bet you paid no tax whilst working illegally!..... There are thousands like you in UK and I wish they could be rounded up and deported!

Here here DenisB. There are 1000's in the UK and they are taking jobs away from people who are paying taxes and living in the country they reside in. If they cleared off the dole queue would be alot shorter

[Pete_D]

Contact the Cyprus Embassy in Belgrade.

I know you think you were hard done by but I bet you paid no tax whilst working illegally!..... There are thousands like you in UK and I wish they could be rounded up and deported!

Here here DenisB. There are 1000's in the UK and they are taking jobs away from people who are paying taxes and living in the country they reside in. If they cleared off the dole queue would be alot shorter

It is a truly sad fact of life, and terrible that gangs get away with it, but unfortunately the economy here does rely in part on this sort of illegal workforce. Remove them all and there will be some jobs that people will just refuse to do. Terrible thing indeed, but the economic success of UK and other countries relies, in part, on an illegal migrant workforce operating right at the bottom rung of the ladder

[rawk]

Just go north to Slovenia, say you are one of their citizens who lost their ID in papers in the July 1991 10 day independence war, you had to flee to Serbia with your elderly parents and now want to come home.

Apply for citizenship. get an EU passport and jump on a plane to Larnaca.

Failing that, come to the UK, say you're an asylum seeker, buy a dodgy passport from one of our friendly street vendors outside Lunar House in Croydon, London, fly into Ercan in the TRNC and then wander over to the land of your dreams at the Ledra Palace crossing.

Rawk

[Pete_D]

Failing that, come to the UK, say you're an asylum seeker, buy a dodgy passport from one of our friendly street vendors outside Lunar House in Croydon, London, fly into Ercan in the TRNC and then wander over to the land of your dreams at the Ledra Palace crossing.

Ah, they say sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.... but then they only say that because "they" just didn't get it