S G K Health Insurance FIASCO - Urgent

[Sus]

No the NHS will not rescue you, even the British Embassy/Consulate will only repatriate you if you can prove you or someone has the money to pay them back.

[saoirse]

quote:Originally posted by 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

Sus thats correct the RP is free but all this compulsory health ins rules apply. I do not live in Turkey I spend 5 months there so from now on will apply for a RP to cover this period only.

Dutchie just checked my RP and as I suspected it commences on your last date of entry NOT date of application. I arrived last April on Saturday 30/4.  Ilknur applied for my RP on Monday morning  2nd May. The RP states commencement date 30/4.

[Ian]

quote:Originally posted by 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

Oh dear - that is a new one on me - has anyone got experience of losing their residency for this reason?

We intended to spend (after almost a full year this year) 3 months on 3 months off throughout the remainder of our 4 years (on the residency) still maintaining our home - paying council tax etc so that we only left the UK for periods of just up to 90 days each time.

Looks like we might need a Plan B  

[Ian]

If you read the article in Fethiye Times / Land of Lights (both the same draft probably to avoid mixed messages) you will see it supports my point "British passport holders with residency permits of a year or more etc should register"

I am typing on an iPod touch so won't go on too much but this also would support my theory that they want everyone with a year or more on their residency as they will not allow access to new registrees / start taking payments from some until next year as the retrospective approach would allow them to determine if you have been here more than 180 days. As you can do a max of 2 x 90 days in any one year on tourist visas I suspect that "eventually" 180 days will become a "trigger" to become mandatory or not for individuals - we will see...

[col]

Ian. Like you, I have never heard or know of anyone losing their residency if they are out of Turkey for more than 6 months and they have a 1 or 5 year residency permit. Remember when Manuel took out his 3 year residency and went back to the uk? He returned 9 months later for a holiday, his residency permit was still valid and there were no problems.
I do not see this causing a problem at all.

[braveheart]

@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.
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Dutchie what I do not want to happen is that if my circumstances change to find that I will only be visiting Turkey for short spells - I do not want to find that I am 'contracted' In to the Health Scheme for 5 years @ TL1000 plus per year

[milliemars]

quote:Originally posted by 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.

Can I ask how long was your residency for.Ours has to be renewed in June,but we have had the residence for 4 and half years ....

[BM06]

Bravehart 1000tl per year[?] more like £1200 per year:-\

[Dutchie]

quote:Originally posted by Sus

No the NHS will not rescue you, even the British Embassy/Consulate will only repatriate you if you can prove you or someone has the money to pay them back.

I meant "rescue" as in that because Ian still has NHS the SGK might not be compulsory for him.
But I reckon that will depend upon the agreement between Turkey and UK.

[Dutchie]

@Saoirse, that's the first time I've heard such a time. Maybe it's because your application date is so close to your entrance date.

In past years, I always tried to use up my tourist visa and then take out a rp (because at the time the visa was very expensive for us). The rp started at the date of application.

@Braveheart, it looks like owners of a 5 years residence permit will be dealing with the compulsory SGK. It costs 212 TL per month.