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[gemmakay]

What are the Challenges and benefits ....A foreigner that is pregnant and and wants to give birth in Cyprus? any free health care ? any benefits for the mother and child before and after birth ..

[cyprusgeoff]

It's a sad sign of the times.

Everybody wants benefits and something for nothing.

What happened to independence and standing on ones own feet, supporting your own family by your own efforts?

[Oracle]

What are the Challenges and benefits ....A foreigner that is pregnant and and wants to give birth in Cyprus? any free health care ? any benefits for the mother and child before and after birth ..

The benefits are that you are obliged to become a morally upstanding and hardworking citizen. Such a novel lifestyle change could lead to longevity unparalleled elsewhere in the Occidental world ...

[miltiades]

Most Western nations , including Cyprus , do provide some benefits . Best to check with the Hospital or ask some one who has had babies.My daughter is expecting her third any time now and I understand that there are benefits available .

[Sega]

What are the Challenges and benefits ....A foreigner that is pregnant and and wants to give birth in Cyprus? any free health care ? any benefits for the mother and child before and after birth ..

It depends what you mean by foreigner. If you are a non-European, with no Cypriot citizenship they your chances of benefits are slim.

If you are a European you can claim benefits from the European Union, and they will claim the benefits in Cyprus and charge your country of origin.

The benefits available in Cyprus tend to go in the line of tax benefits for every child, as well as help the further education and loaning programs to fund their education. They have to live in Cyprus in order to get these benefits.

The government prefer if you are working here as well, in order to get money out of the system you have to pay the system. This is the only way to win, and thank god there is still a country in the modern world, with exceptions, which follows these rules.

...you are obliged to become a morally upstanding and hardworking citizen.

Yep. Agreed. But somehow I don't think foreigners from a non-EU background have this in mind. It's more on the lines of claiming political asylum and forging marriages in order to get citizenship.

[NikosGB23]

What are the Challenges and benefits ....A foreigner that is pregnant and and wants to give birth in Cyprus? any free health care ? any benefits for the mother and child before and after birth ..

The benefit is the beautiful weather
The challenges are the turks...

[Free Spirit]

When I was stationed in Cyprus in the 60s as long as your baby was born on the SBA it was classed as British if born outside the SBA it was a Wog.

[NikosGB23]

When I was stationed in Cyprus in the 60s as long as your baby was born on the SBA it was classed as British if born outside the SBA it was a Wog.

In the 60's...

[Get Real!]

When I was stationed in Cyprus in the 60s as long as your baby was born on the SBA it was classed as British if born outside the SBA it was a Wog.

It's amazing how time has changed so much... these days it's classed as a "Cypriot" outside the SBA, or a bum within.

[Free Spirit]

When I was stationed in Cyprus in the 60s as long as your baby was born on the SBA it was classed as British if born outside the SBA it was a Wog.

In the 60's...

Yes didn't I look smart at Curium?