APPLICATIONS for new residence permits are now being accepted BUT Didim polis are apparently advising people to go to Aydin. Voices has learned.

When Voices queried this, an officer said there was no-one in the Didim Polis Foreigners’ department and were advising people to go Aydin’s Foreigners’ Department. Whether this is a short-term issue, we are awaiting further details. As this is fast moving, we will advise further on out Facebook page

Police advise that applications will be sent to Ankara and processed from there.

Application details:
Didim Polis said YES you do need health insurance for permanent residence, but Voices is holding off until an official government/FCO source confirms it (If you look at no 6 below, it doesn’t categorise who should get it. Another vagary that needs to be ironed out.)

FCAC
The information below was taken from the Kusadasi Foreign Citizen’s Advice Centre on Facebook on Friday afternoon.

Voices can’t independently verify the information, but will be checking it out. The information arrived as Voices was due to go to press.

The FCAC states:

“The Foreign Citizens Advice Centre has obtained a complete list of requirements needed for renewal and/or first application for any one of the 6 new kinds of new residence permits depending on which of the permits you require;

• Short-term residence permit
• Family residence permit
• Residence permit for students
• Long-term residence permit
• Humanitarian residence permit
• Residence permit issued to victims of human trafficking

We had the list professionally translated and it appears below. As no two people’s circumstances are the same, we advise that when making an application you go to the Foreigner’s department at the police station, beside the Mayor’s office, and explain your circumstances to them. They will then look down the list of requirements and circle which items they require from you.

Please keep in mind that they may circle all, some or none of the requirements listed, depending on how you present yourself to them. They will then open a file for you on the date of application, from then you have two weeks in which to submit all of your paperwork. If all paperwork is not received before this deadline they may close the file and you may have to apply again.

The Police station is processing applications for the moment until such time as the new Directorate General of Migration Management takes over permanent responsibility for all future applications. Once we are informed as to when they plan to open and where they will be located we will update this page further.

REPUBLIC OF TURKEY
GOVERNORSHIP OF AYDIN
POLICE HEADQUARTERS
KUŞADASI DISTRICT POLICE HEADQUARTERS

1. Application – (To be provided by the Foreigners’ Department in a standard form and free of charge.)
2. Declaration of Residence – (To be provided by the Foreigners’ Department in a standard form and free of charge.) Both forms are to be completed in full, in clear legible handwriting or with a typewriter and are to be signed by the foreign applicant. Forms completed with illegible writing will not be accepted. 
3. Photocopies of the page of the applicant’s passport with the photograph, details of identification and duration, and the pages containing the last entry stamp into Turkey and entry visas. In the event an Identity Card has been used when entering Turkey, a photocopy of the Identity Card and the card on which the entry stamp has been applied. However, residence permit applications will not be accepted unless a valid passport is presented together with the Identity Card. 
4. 3 biometric photographs. It is a digital photo that meets biometric requirements. The photo must be such that facial recognition programmes can read it.
5. Documentation to show that the foreign applicant has a regular monthly income of not less than the net sum of 850.00 TL or that the foreign applicant has funds with which to secure his/her living to the sum of 850.00 TL for each month for which the residence permit is being applied (i.e. payrolls, pension documentation, current bank account booklet, bank letter etc.). FOR EXAMPLE: For a foreign national applying for a 12-month residence permit, it is necessary to show an income of the equivalent of 850.00 TL x 12 = 10,200.00 TL. 
6. Document issued by the insuring institution to the effect that the foreign applicant has health insurance in his/her own country or in Turkey. If the foreign applicant has health insurance in his/her own country, approval must be obtained from the Social Security Institution to the effect that the foreign health insurance is valid in Turkey. 
7. Document prepared by the competent authorities of the country of which the foreign applicant is a citizen or a legal resident showing the foreign applicant’s police record.
8. For foreign applicants who own real estate in Turkey, a document from the Land Registry to the effect that there is real estate registered in the foreign applicant’s name. 
9. Student certificate obtained from the institution by which a Turkish course attended by the foreign national has been provided, bearing the signature of the authorised person and the stamp of the institution and specifying the student’s details of identification and the duration of the study. 
10. Rent contract or document obtained from the apartment management to the effect that the foreign applicant resides at a particular address.
11. Recent Place of Residence Certificate obtained from the Civil Registry Office showing the foreign applicant’s address.
12. If the applicant is less than 18 years of age and both parents are abroad, an official letter of consent from each parent bearing the Apostille certification from the government department of the country/countries of the parents. In the event of divorce, the official letter of consent with Apostille certification of the parent to whom guardianship has been awarded and the court judgement with Apostille certification pertaining to the decision regarding guardianship. And in addition, a Notary-certified official undertaking/declaration from the person with whom the foreign applicant will be staying in Turkey, and information and documentation regarding the appropriate standard of income as stipulated in item 5. “