Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum

Property For Sale in Calis Beach & Turkey => Moving To Turkey => Topic started by: dinger on November 04, 2007, 14:36:59 PM

Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: dinger on November 04, 2007, 14:36:59 PM: Hi Firo, I am a new member on the forum and noticed your post about the fast track residence permitin June.

My husband and I are moving to Uzumlu in March 08 and are looking to get our residency sorted out quickly as we are shipping a container from the UK.

Could you email me contact details for the person you used, he seemed to have provided a good service.

Many thanks
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Firo on November 05, 2007, 09:01:36 AM: Contact me through my profile and I will gladly let you have his contact details.
Fi
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: dinger on November 05, 2007, 16:47:05 PM: quote:
Originally posted by Firo

Contact me through my profile and I will gladly let you have his contact details.
Fi

Hi there

Already tried that but we are new members to the forum and not able to e-mail other members through their profile yet. Could you possibly e-mail us.

Many thanks

Glenda
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Firo on November 06, 2007, 15:01:15 PM: Glenda details emailed to you.
Good luck
Fi
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: number2 on November 07, 2007, 09:29:47 AM: Do visa and passport have to be signed for, or does it just come back via normal post, as from what we heard from the post office, we wont have a postman until January,in this part of Calis anyway. Alan
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Scunner on November 07, 2007, 09:54:00 AM: Hi Alan,

The guy at the Consulate Office phones you and lets you know that you can go over and collect new passports :)
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: number2 on November 07, 2007, 17:10:07 PM: Hi Keith, it's not a new passport, still got 10yrs on it, it was sent off with residance visa forms, just wondering how they sent them back, with us having no postman. Alan
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Scunner on November 07, 2007, 17:20:03 PM: Ah, I don't know, I took mine to Mugla.

Can't you apply for the vacancy - you are a postman of some note ;)
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: number2 on November 08, 2007, 08:27:51 AM: When i went looking for our mail, i actually saw some of them sorting, it took one of them about 15secs to sort i letter out, and no wonder they can ride around on a motor-bike, the amount of mail they have to deliver, they have about a third of what i used to take out of the office, and i had had another 5 to pick up as i delivered,, the amount that was waiting at the side of the wall for Calis, was what had to be delivered in a day, + magazines and leaflets, that is definitely not another job for me at my time of life, thank you. Alan
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: allan on November 08, 2007, 14:09:47 PM: Hi Alan having just renewed our residency we were told by passport police Fethiye to check back there in 5/6 weeks thats where your passport and permit will be returned to.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: starman on November 08, 2007, 14:39:49 PM: 5-6 weeks?? The longest I have ever known it to take was 20 days and that was because of an amnesty for Bulgarians as a few 100 thousand turned up to hand their papers in.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: chewyturk on November 08, 2007, 16:44:03 PM: I was also told to return in 6 weeks for my passport.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: mercury on November 08, 2007, 20:53:57 PM: and us. It took 5 weeks.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: wouwie on November 08, 2007, 22:31:23 PM: someone told me that it can take 6 weeks
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: JohnF on November 08, 2007, 23:45:37 PM: Istanbul: paperwork in on a Wednesday afternoon, Ikamet ready on the Monday morning (with a bit of help from Starman's glamorous assistant).

If you go to Mugla (instead of doing it locally) then there is no reason why it cant be done in 3/4 days as well.

JF
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: stuart on November 11, 2007, 15:08:32 PM: the latest rumour is that you now have to apply in fethiye and going to mugla for a quickie has been stopped!
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: kevman on November 26, 2007, 09:09:43 AM: The rules on this seem to vary month to month
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: suec on November 26, 2007, 13:11:51 PM: Fi.
Have sent you an e-mail via your profile, about fast track residency. Hope this is OK
Sue
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Firo on November 26, 2007, 14:44:29 PM: Sue nothing received so I have emailed you direct with the info you need.
Fi
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: Jackds on February 27, 2008, 18:10:35 PM: Does someone know the cost for a 5 year residency permit. I heard its expensive, so I was wondering if it would make sense to apply for a 1 year permit from the turkish consulate in London and hope that the cost of the 5 year permit will come down in price during the next 12 months as I believe there is a campaign underway to try and get the Turkish authorities to reduce the fee.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: starman on February 27, 2008, 19:50:50 PM: Dont bother. Even if you waste the money of getting a 12 month visa, you still have to go to the emniyet to get your residence permit within 30 days of arriving in Turkey so the waiting 12 months thing will not work.
The Turkish authorities will not reduce the price untill the UK does likewise for the Turks. At the moment the Italians and Germans have it good but its the Dutch that pay 50% more then the Brits.
Title: Fast Track Residency
Post by: markcromp on May 26, 2008, 12:11:21 PM: 'The Turkish authorities will not reduce the price until the UK does likewise for the Turks.'

I just checked the Home Office website. Turkish nationals have different, better and easier options for UK residence than most other non EU, EAA and Commonwealth countries.

For most categories, there is no fee. On those where it did not explicitly say no fee, there is simply no mention of a fee.