S G K Health Insurance FIASCO - Urgent

[dinger]

Yabanci, while we were in the SGK office there were two other couples from the UK, one who,s RP runs out in Sept 2012 and the other who,s RP runs out in April 2012 and our RP which runs out in March 2012.He would not register any of us for the reason i posted earlier..... we do not have one full year on our residency permits.

[braveheart]

Can I ask the following?

Proposes status
We get a 5 year residency each and participate in the SGK scheme

Questions!
1) Can we cancel our 5 year residencies at any time
2) If residencies are cancelled then we would automatically opt out of the SGK and our payments would cease - i.e. we would stop our bank direct debits? (assuming that this is the form of accepted payment)
3) Once residencies are cancelled can we resort back to the 90/180 day visitor visas with no obstructions being imposed?

[saoirse]

Just a quickie, any help appreciated.

I took a 1  year RP,last April so dont have to register now. If I allow this to lapse ie dont renew this April do I have to register/ join the scheme?

[Dutchie]

@Saoirse, the way it was explained to me at SGK, you won't need to register now since it hasn't been more than a year.
If you have a 6 months' rp you don't have to register at all so I think there lies the solution.
Just 6 months' rp from now on and you won't need to register and/or pay for SGK.

@Braveheart, I've never heard of cancelling a residence permit. Of course, until now I don't think there was any need to cancel them. You better ask the Yabanci police in the harbour.

[tylerbabe]

Do you mean 6 months and over I have just under 5 yrs left on mine so I need to register.

[saoirse]

Good advice aDutchie thats exact what I was thinking about- let this current one expire then apply for 6 month one. Doesnt an RP start from the date of your most recent entry stamp?

[Dutchie]

No, it starts from your date of application.

So if you have arrived in Turkey on a tourist visa, you will be able to stay 90 days. Before this ends, you apply for a rp for as long as you need it before you're planning to return to the UK.

[Ian]

Dutchie - I might be wrong but as someone who bought a 5 year visa for the first time 3 weeks ago it affects me.

I do not think it is "held a residency for more than 12 months" it is "has a residency visa with more than 12 months left on it".

My wife and I went to the SGK office in Fethiye yesterday (manic with dozens of locals subscribing) and we met some Brits coming out.

They had only a few weeks left on a long term residency visa and were told to come back after they had renewed their visa's - we were told YES you should register. (remember only 3 weeks into our first ever visa)

So the "net" captures the new residency holders like us who rushed to get it at the very attractive price - even though we expect to spend only 6 months maximum here each year and have our own long term travel cover on each trip.

[Sus]

If you are going to spend time in Turkey as well as the UK be very careful you do not spend more then six months out of Turkey otherwise you loose your residence permit

Also if you are not going to pay this health care how are you paying for any health care you require.

Saoirse being Irish you do not have to pay for your RP do you.

Surely if you are going to do an RP for six months at a time do you not think that questions will not be asked why you are doing this

[Dutchie]

The way it was explained to me it would indeed affect you but only after your first year had finished.

What Dinger - and you as well - described was not mentioned to me but I hadn't asked about it.

Holders of rp longer than one year are the ones who will need to pay and you seem to be very unfortunate.
Especially if you're only planning to spend 6 months maximum.

Maybe your NHS might "rescue" you but time will tell that.
Up to the Embassy to negotiate for UK citizens here.