Firstly, I love the banner, that’s awesome. Secondly, apologies for another citizenship post, I imagine these get tiresome.
However, I’ve yet to get a difinitive answer from anyone, and the embassy/consulate waited six months to reply with a cut and paste email.
Background: My siblings and I were both born in the UK between 1980 and 1995 in the UK, to a mother who was born in Cyprus and moved to the UK shortly after (she only recently gained her citizenship and passport after a visit to Cyprus) and to a father who was born in the UK, lived in Cyprus until he was 18 and then lived here. I don’t know if he has his citizenship and none of the family are in contact with him.
Dad’s parents were both born and lived in Cyprus. Mums parents both born in Cyprus but moved here. Apparently my maternal grandmother isn’t registered.
My question is: Am I (and are my siblings) entitled to apply for Cypriot citizenship due to our mothers’ citizenship, as
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[This says we are](https://www.dualcitizenship.com/countries/cyprus.html](https://www.dualcitizenship.com/countries/cyprus.html)
[Whereas this and various other sites implies that if you’re born between 1960-1999 that it has to be through your father](http://www.mfa.gov.cy/mfa/highcom/highcom\_pretoria.nsf/All/A1E9D7A32AD97CB5C2257A0E005083C3](http://www.mfa.gov.cy/mfa/highcom/highcom_pretoria.nsf/All/A1E9D7A32AD97CB5C2257A0E005083C3) with application M121.
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(Follow up question: How in the hell do you get an appointment via VFS global!?)
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Should be able to, yes. Dad had his, but mum grew up Aus, so she got it way later. I got mine by applying, even though I was born in the UK. I’d say go down to their offices and ask, but I can’t stand dealing with government employees over here.
This could be tricky. You can apply for citizenship “by means or your origin” (a.k.a. By descent) but your fathers citizenship is the one that matters much more if you are born before 1999, unfortunately.
Application for Consular Birth Certificate (type M121)
Minors or adults, born abroad after the 16th of August 1960 and whose father at the time of birth was Cypriot citizen, **and by those born after the 11th of June 1999**, whose mother was a Cypriot citizen at the time of their birth.
There is genuinely some ambiguity in the published criteria but from what I could get from one of the associates is that as long as one of your parents is a Cypriot and was Cypriot when you were born, you have the right to Cypriot citizenship by descent regardless of where you are born. If you apply while living in Cyprus, and especially after having resided for more than 12 months, it generally is a smooth process (as smooth as any process in Cyprus can be…)