A case of a law firm that pressured and tried to intimidate government officials to obtain residence permits for its clients, while they were not in the Republic, the Ministry of Interior complained in a statement, referring to yesterday's publication of the website "To Thema Online".
According to the announcement, at the beginning of July 2021, a representative of his law firm (ss: the lawyer's name is mentioned) came to the Department of Immigration Population Record (TAMP) to submit an application for renewal of the residence permit of a foreign family member. He was informed that the application could not be submitted, because the family members were not in the Republic, as explicitly stipulated by the Legislation.
Yesterday, Tuesday 28 July, following persistent interventions by the same lawyer, who returned with the same request, it was re-established that both the applicant and his minor children are still outside Cyprus, while in our country only his wife seems to be present. alien.
Despite the explanations given by the officials, it is stated that both the national legislation and the European directive provide that both the applicant and the dependent members must be present in the Republic when they wish to apply for the renewal of an existing residence permit, so that, among other things, the satisfaction of the provision for obtaining biometric data is possible, they were obviously not convinced.
"Instead of respecting, as they should, the provisions of the law and advising their clients to comply accordingly, they tried to intimidate the officials by threatening to make the issue public if their request is not met, effectively asking the TAMP officials to illegally to satisfy their prominent customer ", it is reported.
"We want to be clear! Those who live in glass houses should not throw stones. "Neither the Minister of Interior, nor officials of the Ministry are going to succumb to the intimidation efforts of those who consider themselves above the law, no matter how much mud they throw through the media they have," he added.
Finally, it is noted that in this place there are still people who serve the well-meaning public interest and do not succumb to threats and intimidation as much as… ..in international fame and if they are the customers of some.
Source: KYPE