Cyprus no longer admitting RSOs ?

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Cyprus no longer admitting RSOs ?

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AB2014	AB2014 Posted Last Week #35955
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 1.2K, Visits: 8.5K	+x xDanx - 2 Mar 26 6:02 PM +x Movingon93 - 1 Mar 26 11:24 PM I have first hand experience of this. Due to travel March 2025 and I turned up and was taken into a room with multiple border control agents shouting loudly in their own language with each other. It took a while for them to effectively say ‘we don’t allow sex offenders into Cyprus’ and I was then put in a room with a bench for several hours until I was put on a flight home. They didn’t tell me what they knew or what paperwork they had. Fairly sure I saw a picture of myself (likely police paperwork from UK).The police were aware of my travel. When I got back I contacted my offender manager who had confirmed they had not put any notices on my passport and had no issue with me travelling. He asked around and in the several years’ experience in his office he had never had someone turned away from Cyprus. Seems I was the first. I’m now 5 years into my 10 year order and terrified to go abroad again. Even to Europe especially when the ETIAS is introduced. Be careful with Cyprus if you’re currently on the register. I don’t think they have a set procedure - at times it felt like it could’ve gone either way. Since you are at the 5 year mark of your order, ( I am assuing it is a SHPO?) Have you considered applying to have the order discharged? I do not travel so I do not know fully if a discharged SHPO would help prevent instances such as this. But something worth looking into if you ever felt the need Having to notify foreign travel comes from being on the Register, not the SHPO. So, if you successfully apply to have the SHPO discharged, it won't change anything technically, but it might annoy the police if they oppose the discharge and it is discharged anyway. ========================================================================================================= If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw) 3
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punter99	punter99 Posted Last Week #35956
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 878, Visits: 7.2K	Its not really clear how Cyprus would know about the conviction. if the ppu are saying they did not place any notices on the passport, that is suggesting there is no interpol green notice in place, but the ppu would not necessarily know, because they do not have access to the interpol database, it is a different officer within the force who handles that. might be worth taking a day trip to france for example, to see if there are any issues there Edited Last Week by punter99 9
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AB2014	AB2014 Posted Last Week #35958
Supreme Being Group: Forum Members Posts: 1.2K, Visits: 8.5K	+x punter99 - 3 Mar 26 10:59 AM Its not really clear how Cyprus would know about the conviction. if the ppu are saying they did not place any notices on the passport, that is suggesting there is no interpol green notice in place, but the ppu would not necessarily know, because they do not have access to the interpol database, it is a different officer within the force who handles that. might be worth taking a day trip to france for example, to see if there are any issues there Any notices are requested by the National Crime Agency in consultation with the chief of police at the relevant force, so the local plod might not know. If the person had travelled before, while British nationals were still on the Schengen Information System, that information might have been kept locally after British nationals were removed from the central records. As for travel to France, if you're not near the Channel coast, you could try a cheap Eurostar ticket from London, as the French passport control is there, not in France. Might be cheaper than a return flight. ========================================================================================================= If you are to punish a man retributively you must injure him. If you are to reform him you must improve him. And men are not improved by injuries. (George Bernard Shaw) 4
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Cyprus no longer admitting RSOs ?

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