
Concerns were raised on Tuesday over the whereabouts of around 290,000 third-country nationals, including around 180,000 British nationals, who arrived legally in Cyprus between 2014 and 2023 but have no recorded departure from the island despite their visas having since expired.
The figures were made public as part of auditor-general Andreas Papaconstantinou’s report into the state of migration in Cyprus, with the number of British nationals recorded as having entered