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Residence
Permit
When
you initially enter Turkey you will have
purchased a 3 month tourist visa. This
visa is intended for short visits and
covers you for up to 90 days. please
remember its 90 days. Not 3 months,?
The financial penalties for overstaying a
visa have recently been reviewed and now
charged cumulatively ie. the longer the
breach of visa the higher the penalty.
If you intend to stay longer you have 2
options to remain legal....
1. Leave the country and re-enter and buy
another tourist visa, or
2. Get a residence permit.
The first option is used by many people to
renew their visas.
Some take a day trip to Samos by ferry and
buy a new visa when they arrive back in
Turkey. However they are getting wise to
this and some have been refused re entry,
The residence permit is the preferred
method of making a longer term stay legal
- and of course this is reflected in the
prices charged! However, having residence
does allow you to place your child in the
Turkish state education system, be buried
in Turkey and get discounted medical
treatment in some private hospitals.
Getting the residence permit is easier if
you know how. Some people use their estate
agent or pay someone else to do it for
them. However, you can do the whole
process in a day if you start at the right
place and have transport - a basic grasp
of Turkish is required so maybe take a
Turkish friend with you!
16 passport size photos
3 complete copies of your passport - you
must make sure you have enough time left
on your passport for the number of years
of residence you are applying for
otherwise you will be limited to the
period left till expiry on your passport.
Bank statements to prove that you have
enough money to live in Turkey. (For
anyone who is ever planning to move to
Turkey in the future, it is best to open a
Turkish bank account,
If you have your own or rent a house here,
a copy of the Tapu or rental contract.
Your passport and old residence permit if
you are renewing.
Enough Turkish money to pay the fees etc.
The current Resident Permit fees are: or
was,
1 Year 456YTL
2 Year 888YTL
3 Year 1320YTL
5 Year 2184YTL
Your resident permit, please carry this
with you and when leaving or arriving in
Turkey produce both the book and your
british passport. you will not have to pay
£10 for re entrance if you have a Your
resident permit,
Getting a resident permit, is far easier
now, than when i first came to turkey,
Please don't go to the embassy in the UK
.. your wasting your time.
You will have to do it all again, when you
arrive in turkey.
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