Turkish Living Forums - Residence permit fees

1st February 2006, 09:22	#1
starman gone	Residence permit fees At the moment there is NO fee for residence permits apart from the 70 lira for the blue book and the usual proof of 300 dollars for each month being applied for. If your american and dont have a permit or yours is about to expire (you could also kind of lose it) I would suggest you get on the boat now as we dont know how long this will be around for. For Brits, the price has gone up 10%

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1st February 2006, 10:57	#2
lewismark DreamHome	Re: Residence permit fees It appears the cost varies depending on what nationality you are then, so who puts the prices on them The Turkish government or the country you are leaveing??? For our children we paid 424.60TL in December last year and 849.20TL for us for a two year residence permit.

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1st February 2006, 11:05	#3
JohnF Senior Member	Re: Residence permit fees How would the country you are leaving have any input into another country's immigration charges? It is done on your nationality (i.e. who issued your passport). The costs are affected by what reciprocal agreements are in place with your native country in respect of visa and permits. Given the hoops a Turk has to go through to get a U.K. visa, we should consider ourselves lucky the tourist visa is still only 10GBP. JF

1st February 2006, 11:39

starman

gone

Re: Residence permit fees

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Originally Posted by lewismark

It appears the cost varies depending on what nationality you are then, so who puts the prices on them The Turkish government or the country you are leaveing???

Lewismark, I guess you learn something everyday.

Americans pay nothing
germans pay 40 euros
Italians pay around 50 euros
Brits pay too much

1st February 2006, 12:50

lorraine

Non Active Member

Re: Residence permit fees

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Originally Posted by starman

Lewismark, I guess you learn something everyday.

Americans pay nothing
germans pay 40 euros
Italians pay around 50 euros
Brits pay too much

I presume that the above quotes are for resident permits for the duration of 1 year?

I am surprised that American Citizens pay nothing, especially when I have heard that their Tourist entry visa are something like $100, and Germans pay nothing compared to £10 British.

I understand that the cost of permits is reciprocal, so unless Britian lowers its visa cost to Turks then we will continue to be clobbered!

1st February 2006, 12:55

lewismark

DreamHome

Re: Residence permit fees

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnF

How would the country you are leaving have any input into another country's immigration charges?

I know they dont sit round a table and drink chy decideing how much to charge each other, but it would appear it depends on how much they like your country, suppose i meant to say "How do they decide the price of visa"?

If you add up all the money they get from tourist visas every year all over Turkey, i would of thought they should be by now one of the richest countries in the world,
Another question.... Where does all this money go?, yes some on the running of the customs etc but it wouldn't use all those £10 and €15

1st February 2006, 13:01	#7
starman gone	Re: Residence permit fees Loraine, those are prices for 5 yr permits. Americans used to pay 100 bucks for a visa but its now down to 20 and has been for over 6 months or so.

1st February 2006, 13:03	#8
lorraine Non Active Member	Re: Residence permit fees Mark see my post above, The decision on how much each country has to pay in Visa and permit fee is Reciprocal. So going by this until UK decrease their charges we Brits will continue to pay the price. Thanks Steve for that info, still think it strange that $20 for American citizen Tourist visa and nowt for resident permits?? Last edited by lorraine : 1st February 2006 at 13:05.

1st February 2006, 13:35	#9
starman gone	Re: Residence permit fees I have brought the subject up with Barbara Hay and Sir Peter (but he has better things to do) but it has been mentioned through the turkish channels so its not as if the FCO is doing nothing.

1st February 2006, 13:50	#10
JohnF Senior Member	Re: Residence permit fees Lorraine - Not that strange, It's Turkey remember, and when it come to bureaucracy things often move in strange and wonderful ways. Given the time and effort involved in obtaining a residency permit, I suspect very few short stay visitors will bother. Mark - for a property sales professional in Turkey selling mainly to foreigners (I suspect), I'm a bit surprised that you don't have a better knowledge of the various reciprocal agreements relating to visa and residency permits. What do you tell your clients when they ask about these things? And what's Chy? JF