visa

[Scunner]

We must leave this topic to return to the visa topic but it's maybe a good new topic - 'Businesses in Turkey involving British owners that are successful and didn't turn anyone over'. I guarantee it won't get to 37 pages long like this one

[The Crinklies]

quote:Originally posted by koukla

OMG....this just gets worse and worse. I have people conimg to stay here with me in August and September, all booked and paid for and now I don't know if I go to Meis, whether the Visa I get will be actually worth the sticker it's written on. If they sudenly change their minds I could be fined and/or deported. I'm recovering from a long illness....this is not helping!![?]

koukla, it will depend on which of the visa stickers you currently have in your passport. If it is of the old type, I think you will be able to get one more tourist visa but if it is one of the new ones (90/180)then you would have to consider applying for residency or going out of Turkey as you approach the 90 days quota.

[vonny]

A friend of mine checked her passport yesterday after i sent here the many links to the visa saga and she entered Turkey 30th May 2010 at Dalaman and has the 180 Visa Sticker....Needless to say she is livid as she does not live here but comes for many holidays and has booked and paid for all her flights for 2011...Her visa (the 180th day) runs out in the middle of her holiday in June...Can she do the Meis/Rhodes trip for a new Visa on the 181st day??

[Winklepicker]

Hi came back from England on the 15th, didnt have the internet for 7 days so when told I posted the news about visa,s on the Uzumlu forum, now had time to read this link...  Every country does things for money,so regardless of reasons and whys and wherefores we have no choice, if I want to live here I have to buy residency.  Extra money from me as well as paying for a visa will be paying a notary, I could go two ways....either my partner writes me a letter to say I rent off him(as were not married) and then get residency, if the notary dosent except this then we will have to pay a solictor to have my name put on this property as co-owner then I have a tax number then I can buy residency, so it was cheaper in my circumstances to do the Meis run, and its having a knock on effect to cost me more. If thems the rules then thems the rules.

[Winklepicker]

Ps. Will be seeing Notary on Monday hopefully if hes not too busy with all the extra work so I will give progress report.

[farmer]

It would seem that the "type" of Visa sticker  put into your Passport on arrival in Turkey depends on the when and where your point of entry was.

The post by Vonny   Posted - 22 July 2010 :  06:28:49  records the case of an entry into Dalaman on 30th May , and the visa sticker in the passport is the 90 / 180 day variety. For the expiry ( the 180th day ) date of the visa to be in the middle of June it would have to have been issued  in December 2009.!
 If it is just  the expiry of the 90 days allowed (even if used all at once) to be in the middle of June the issue date cannot be later than the middle of March 2010.

If this sticker was put in the passport on the quoted date of entry, there appears to be a mistake in the calculation:  the 90 day "allowance" would not be used up before 28th August!

The latest Visa sticker in my passport was placed there yesterday at Kas. It is the old 90 day £10 type.

The boat owner said he would still be doing the Visa runs to Meis in October this year.
I asked the Policeman handling the documentation if I could renew the visa with a run to Meis in early October and he said "yes - why not".
So once again it is a case of " wait and see ".

[saoirse]

quote:Originally posted by vonny

A friend of mine checked her passport yesterday after i sent here the many links to the visa saga and she entered Turkey 30th May 2010 at Dalaman and has the 180 Visa Sticker....Needless to say she is livid as she does not live here but comes for many holidays and has booked and paid for all her flights for 2011...Her visa (the 180th day) runs out in the middle of her holiday in June...Can she do the Meis/Rhodes trip for a new Visa on the 181st day??

Nope. You must leave after 180 days. Your friend would still be in Turkey on day 181. Essentially the only way to renew will require at least 1 overnight stay if you leave on day 180.

[Old Daffodil]

quote:Originally posted by starmanTM

quote:Originally posted by Daffodil

Why did the Muhtar insist on proof of address and the tapu when we applied then? He never charged us for his services.

Also I would like to mention that I was told that once you have residency if you change address or marry,divorce or die the authorities want to be notified . Probably there are fines incurred if you do not tell them.

Correct, you do have to change your status within 15 days. Fine is neither here nor there though. You may have to go the muhtar route in Fethiye but most provinces, the muhtar doesnt want to know about the foreigners living in the area and they do not take any registrations from them. This is how it works in Istanbul, Izmir, Bursa, Kocaeli, Samsun, Sakarya, Ankara, Antalya and Tekirdag which are all the provinces we have done residence permits in.

I wonder why the muhtar's in the other provinces do not want to know about the foreigners living in the area but they do in Fethiye?
I am surprised you say that if there is a  fine it does not matter.I would not like to be fined for something if I could avoid it and many may not know that you have to tell the authorities about change of status.

[peecee]

It might be worth mentioning that if there are going to be a lot of visa applications then there will probably be a delay in getting your passport back.  So, if planning any trips abroad in the future probably good idea to apply earlier rather than later

[c1]

with people doing multi entry, I can see longer and longer lines of people at the passport checkin while brain of Turkey works out how long you have stayed how long you are allowed to stay in each and every case. I think this law is a sledge hammer to crack a nut and is there to stop expats miss ? using the old loop hole. UK tax man/ benefits people will be interested in people buying visa's as well.I can't understand the Turkish logic at the moment seems we are geting mixed messages on alot of different fronts.