Calis Beach and Fethiye Turkey Discussion Forum
Information and Services in Turkey Section => Residency in Turkey, Visas, Work Permit Questions => Topic started by: lynne on August 24, 2010, 18:47:51 PM
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I just can't find this information! I really have tried to search for it!
I have managed to work out that these visas are on hold at the moment etc etc but we all have one of these 180 day visas in our passport from May and are coming back over next week. Can we use it? Are we going to be tutted at by the queue when we get to the desk? Has anyone actually done this yet? Or have we got to pay our tenner again!
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Pay a tenner again Lynne I am afraid.
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It's a damn good question though - she has an official visa stamp in her passport that she was required to pay for that says it covers any 90 days in the subsequent 180. On what grounds must she pay another tenner?
:D
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On the grounds that it's Turkey:D
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Good point Kieth, you could try it Lynne, good luck:D ;)
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I don't care now about paying a tenner! Scunner thought I had a damn good question! Wow!
Seriously, surely someone must have tried it?
I am actually going to try - £30 is a fair few Efes'!!!
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Lynne the official line is the new rules ie. 90 in 180 days has been shelved, the problem is they may let you in but then hammer you when you come to fly out. I know when Mark and Tracey over ran their visa it was a hell of a lot more money than £30.
Mark
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You're right Mark - I never thought of the return journey.... (in fact, I still don't want to think about it!).
Guess we will pay up!
Thank you - as always!
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I thought I was alright with my visa - I had the 180 day one from May. When I got to Dalaman yesterday with my 5 year old daughter (hubby having already gone home), we were stopped and then hauled round various parts of the airport for an hour, then charged £150 for the two of us. It was a nightmare, particularly since we were only 2 days over the 90 days anyway. It really is not worth taking the chance - trying to point the clear wording of the visa out to the pompous official was impossible, he did not want to know and just kept mentioning the police. I understand now that I have to go to the Turkish consulate in London with my daughter and buy a visa in advance of my next trip, at a cost of £68 each, before we return in October. I hvae just written to the Turkish Embassy to try and see if I can do anything about it because the change was only made whilst I was out there, so how was I supposed to know? It was a valid visa when I entered the country.
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Originally posted by Megsy
I thought I was alright with my visa - I had the 180 day one from May. When I got to Dalaman yesterday with my 5 year old daughter (hubby having already gone home), we were stopped and then hauled round various parts of the airport for an hour, then charged £150 for the two of us. It was a nightmare, particularly since we were only 2 days over the 90 days anyway. It really is not worth taking the chance - trying to point the clear wording of the visa out to the pompous official was impossible, he did not want to know and just kept mentioning the police. I understand now that I have to go to the Turkish consulate in London with my daughter and buy a visa in advance of my next trip, at a cost of £68 each, before we return in October. I hvae just written to the Turkish Embassy to try and see if I can do anything about it because the change was only made whilst I was out there, so how was I supposed to know? It was a valid visa when I entered the country.
Megsy,you say it was a valid visa when you entered the country.The visa was for a maximum 90 days stay in a 180 day period,if you stayed 92 days how can you have any complaint about being fined for your overstay?
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Sad, but true :-\
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Yep 2 days over your time limit = fine and trouble.
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It really is a shame that things are still done so heavy handedly when it comes to authority - Turkey rightly claims it was done a great and expensive disservice by the film Midnight Express, yet any minor brush with a uniform ends up in being dragged around here there and everywhere by officials mumbling about police under their breath. Give people a break, they overstayed 2 days they didn't gun down a bus queue. One man on duty in each airport who can explain easily and compassionately what is going on is all that is needed to change these situations from a very scary and daunting one into something much less dark and damaging to the overall arrival/departure feeling of Turkey.
We spend two weeks in the company of numerous charming Turks and depart from a building that seems like something Stalin dreamed up.
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Sorry for not being clear but I got the visa on the 28th May. I then stayed until the 7th June, before returning from the 2nd August to the 30th. I was therefore only in Turkey for 39 days over the period. When it was said that I had overstayed by 2 days, the authorities meant that the visa was being treated as a 90 day visa, not 180 days as it clearly stated. Had the visa meant what it actually said, then there could have been no question of me overstaying and therefore being fined. And you're right, I didn't gun down a bus queue - I simply tried to leave the country with a visa which on the face of it was valid.
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Megsy, You are correct it does appear very harsh, My wife & kids came home on Friday and had the same type of visa ie 90/180 and had 91 days since first stamp on visa, she was very worried but got through without question. Big sigh of releif all round, especially by me who had miss counted the days and told her not to get a new one on her way into Turkey..
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Hi Megsy,now we have the full details it seems you were treated harshly.When you look at Bewva's post,it seems to me that situations at Dalaman Airport change depending who is on duty at the time & what mood they are in.I have also witnessed this sort of thing at Marmaris when people have been going over to Rhodes to renew visas,most times the officials are polite but on a couple of occasions when the visa has been very near the expiry date they have tried to intimidate the person by insisting they have gone over the 90 days.It's only when a calender has been produced & the days counted that the officials have begrudgingly backed down.