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Communities, meet-ups and safety

Where to meet people, which groups can help and how to recognise common scams.

Cyprus has expat groups for paperwork, housing, work and leisure. In-person meet-ups run throughout the year.

Where to take your question

  • Visas, residence permits, lawyers and notaries — visa and legal discussion groups.
  • Health, doctors, insurance — the medical chat, with emergency addresses and phone numbers pinned.
  • Internet and phones, home and repairs, parcels, pets, cars — a separate chat per topic.
  • Jobs and CVs — a dedicated HR channel, the largest on the island.
  • The general rule: in the general chat, narrow questions get redirected to the specialist one.

Regular meet-ups

  • iT_Party — every Wednesday from 19:00 in Limassol. No registration, everyone pays their own way. Running since 2017, with more than 450 meet-ups.
  • GPT Brunch — expert talks and networking every Friday at 19:00 at Limassol marina, free.
  • DeepTech CY Meetup — monthly in Nicosia: AI, robotics, biotech, space.
  • Paphos house gigs and The.HUB — meet-ups in Paphos.
  • Beach and park clean-ups — an easy way to meet people and do something useful.

Safety: what is happening in 2026

  • Phishing emails from "Revolut security" sent from ordinary mail addresses, which know your name.
  • Scam listings selling concert tickets from accounts with no name.
  • A "recommended recruitment agent" takes an advance and vanishes — the recommender and the agent turn out to be linked accounts.
  • "Buy a Telegram tag" buttons and the like are a way to steal your account.

Home burglaries

Burglaries rose noticeably in 2026, especially in Limassol. They work during the day (10:00–13:00) and in the evening (17:30–21:00): ringing the doorbell posing as a delivery to see if anyone is in, marking doors, and climbing through part-open ground-floor windows.

  • What helps: an alarm with a siren, cameras on the landings, cameras with a speaker.
  • Don't give couriers the entrance code — meet them at the door.
  • The ground and top floors carry the highest risk.
  • Report a burglary to your city's burglary unit; the general police line is 1460.

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