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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
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