Cyprus` Interior Minister Nicos Nouris told MPs on Thursday that progress has been achieved in preventing illegal immigrants from arriving to Cyprus.
Nouris, who was briefing the parliamentary committee of interior, said that Cyprus ranks first in the EU in migrant inflows but that it has managed to stop illegal immigrants from coming to Cyprus under the guise of studying and from performing fraudulent marriages. Through these schemes 2,000 to 2,500 immigrants would arrive on the island every year, he added.
Source: cyprus News Agency