{"id":139993,"date":"2016-06-20T11:13:53","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/one-out-of-every-four-people-in-south-cyprus-is-foreign\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T11:13:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T08:13:53","slug":"one-out-of-every-four-people-in-south-cyprus-is-foreign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/one-out-of-every-four-people-in-south-cyprus-is-foreign\/","title":{"rendered":"One out of every four people in South Cyprus is foreign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Cypriot daily Fileleftheros reported that the number of foreign people residing in South Cyprus exceeds 208,000; there is a decrease in the number of third country nationals, and an increase in the number of EU citizens.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper also reported that the number of those currently residing illegally in South Cyprus is not known exactly; but used to be in the region of 15 to 20,000.<\/p>\n<p>According to the data from the Greek Immigration Office, there are currently 208,325 foreigners registered in South Cyprus. 61,301 of them are third-country nationals and 147,024 people are EU citizens.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the newspaper wrote that as per a citizenship for investment programme, foreigners who want to obtain \u201cCypriot citizenship&#8221; can do so by investing 5 million Euros on the Island (through buying government bonds, becoming Cypriot company shareholders, buying immovable property, investing in any immovable property for the public interest, or investing in a local banks with a 3-year deposit account).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greek Cypriot daily Fileleftheros reported that the number of foreign people residing in South Cyprus exceeds<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [\u2026]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-139993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-headlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139993\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pio.mfa.gov.ct.tr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}