Cyprus - Apply or Reissue of Refugee Identity Card

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Procedure

1. Fill in the application form
2. Submit form along with all the required documents.

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Required Documents

For New Application

• Completed application form
• Marriage/Engagement to Marry Certificate/a newspaper notice about a promise to marry.
• Birth Certificate
• Parents Refugee Identity Cards
• Parents Number of Identity Cards.

For re-issue/replacement of Refugee Identity Card which has a check seal with the date January 1, 1983:

• A completed relevant application form
• Numbers of the Identity Cards of all the members of the family
• Birth Certificates of children.

When the displaced person who is already holder of a refugee Identity Card has more children after the issue of his Refugee Identity Card, he can submit an application for inclusion of the names of the children in the Refugee Identity Card.

Office Locations & Contacts

Civil Registry and Migration Department

1457 Nicosia

Tel: 22804400, 22804511, 22804425

Fax: 22804534

E-mail: [email protected]

Other CRMD Numbers

Eligibility

The Refugee Identity Card is issued to the following displaced individuals:

• Persons who before and until the invasion had their usual residence in any Turkish - occupied area
• Those who before and until the invasion had their permanent residence in the free areas because of their profession but their house and/or their property in general was in the occupied areas
• Those who before and until the invasion had their temporary residence abroad due to an obligation which emanated from a permanent appointment or an appointment on contract offered them while they resided in Cyprus and provided they were not emigrants.

Fees

Issuance and replacement of the Refugee Identity Cards as well as the Certificate of Displaced Family are free of charge.

Validity

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e.g. Birth Certificate Valid Forever

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Instructions

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Required Information

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1. Date of Birth.
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Need for the Document

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Other uses of the Document/Certificate

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External Links

• Issuance/ Replacement of Refugee Identity Card:

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/CRMD/CRMD.nsf/All/EB6407FA51EDADAFC22578E30035CA12?OpenDocument

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