Immigration rules made to measure

One can only imagine what goes on in the minds of civil servants working at the immigration department. Perhaps, not much, judging from the way ‘golden passports’ were never vetted in the past, the 150 or so sham marriages that have only now been discovered, without prosecuting any public official, or how Turkish Cypriot lawyer Akan Kursat got his travel document and no one bothered to check if he was on a stop-list or wanted by Interpol. President Christodoulides announced a package of confidence building measures recently, aimed at appeasing concerns among Turkish Cypriots, one of which was to award