Residency question (boring I know)?

tarry67


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1053

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 15:23

Posting on behalf of a friend, who was asking if you can still use a UK bank account when applying for residency,as she has only a small amount of cash here in Cyprus, and she done this last year with no problems, but as you are well aware the rules do change here all the time.



Many thanks



Steve

Hedgehog


Joined: 24/06/2011
Posts: 15

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 16:11

Basically, it's up the police officer. We call it face control. I applied in 2006 with only TL20 in my bank account and had no problem.

Tango1


Joined: 19/02/2011
Posts: 1151

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 16:20

As Msg. 2 said, much depends on who is in attendance on the day your friends starts the proceedings. However, one thing I can say that you would never get away with 250tl these days. What they look at is to see that you have sufficient (in theire eyes) to live on. We took one of our KKTC bank statements last year which obviously had sufficient in it for two people but others I know have just taken one UK bank statement with them and a nominal TRNC statement. There doesn't seem to be a hard and fast rule. Nothing is a straight forward as that!!



T1

happyvally


Joined: 03/01/2011
Posts: 53

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 18:09

they do not take ur uk bank statment u have to show ur local bank statment and u do,t need lot of money in it but they want to see if u got money coming in to ur account to spend it here.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 18:33

I show both as my pension goes to my uk account so that shows a regular income they take both.

cyprusairsoft



Joined: 22/06/2009
Posts: 2066

Message Posted:
22/09/2011 22:18

show both we were told3k sterlingin turk bank wasnt enough

i just said ive nearly spent 260k in 6 years so dont tell me i dont have enough money to which a senior policeman overode him

go with flow

Agobard


Joined: 20/08/2008
Posts: 271

Message Posted:
23/09/2011 08:07

It's like most other things here - nobody knows the answer! I have never shown them my UK bank account. My local account shows very little movement which would indicate that I don't live out of it. They have never had anything to say about this situation in all the years that I have been here. What does seem to me to be possibly relevant is whether you have a kocan. I have had a kocan for years and have never had any financial questions asked whereas friends without kocans seem to have this problem. Usual TRNC mystery I guess.

Deniz1


Joined: 28/07/2009
Posts: 3829

Message Posted:
23/09/2011 08:13

Strange isnt it? How can a Kocan help you to provide for your daily living expenses? Do they think if you run out of money you can just sell the house? You would starve while you wait for that to happen.

tarry67


Joined: 16/05/2008
Posts: 1053

Message Posted:
23/09/2011 16:38

My friend went today and produced her uk bank statements and they were excepted, but they said she would need to deposit at least 500tl into a local bank account and show this in Nicosia in 2 weeks time.

I do remember many years ago they asked for this in case you were deported and this would pay for the air fare.

authentichoccie


Joined: 09/01/2008
Posts: 481

Message Posted:
23/09/2011 16:40

Just to update I went this morning I got there at 6.30am! and was 1st (and only person until 7.30am!). They did ask for my local bank account statement and when I said i only have 200TL in it, they said OK but 500TL would be better!

authentichoccie


Joined: 09/01/2008
Posts: 481

Message Posted:
23/09/2011 16:44

Tarry you must be Psychic we posted at same time lol x