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Renewal Residence Permit Application for Family Members
Important Information
  1. Dependent Residence Permits are issued for a maximum length of 2 years each time; however, this length is the first contingent upon the residence permit of the primary resident (benefactor).
  2. All applications must be made before the expiry date of the visa or permission to stay without a visa period. Dependents’ passports must be valid 60 days further than the requested end date of the residency (i.e. if the benefactor has a student residence permit until March 1st, a dependent can only apply for a residence permit which ends at this date. Therefore, his/ her passport must be valid until April 30th).
  3. The earliest renewal application can be made 60 days before the expiration date of the residence permit.
  4. Apostilled marriage certificate for your spouse and apostilled birth certificate of your child are musts for their applications. Those apostilled certificates must be translated to Turkish and notarized.
  5. While filling out the online application form, a dependent should select “SHORT-TERM/ touristic” instead of “FAMILY”.
  6. It is necessary to upload the applicant’s (dependent’s) headshot photograph in ICAO standards taken within the last six months to the online application form. Please have your dependents’ headshot photographs in the JPEG version on your computer available before starting the online application.
  7. Please select the “I lodge the application on my own behalf” option on the Person Applying on Behalf of the Applicant part of the form.
  8. Your dependents can pay their residence permit application and card fees at Sarıyer Tax Office with a 9207 reference code. 
  9. Each dependent must print out the online application form, sign the 1st-page signature field, collect the documents listed below, go to their appointments and submit them.  The benefactor should collect his or her documents as much as the number of his or her dependents. (i.e. if you have a spouse and a child, you should collect two Student Enrollment Certificates).
  10. If you indicated any wrong data into your online application form, you need to cancel it and apply it again. For the Instructions Guide to Cancel Residence Permit Application, please click here.
Required Documents for Each Person In Family
Important: The primary resident (student) must provide his/ her required documents as much as the number of his or her dependents (i.e. if the student has a spouse and a child, s/he must provide two Student Enrollment Certificates).

Please make sure that all the photocopies are separately taken to separate A4- size papers.

You can photocopy both sides of your residence permit card on one side of an A4-size page.

Please note:

  1. If the primary resident’s (benefactor’s) spouse is abroad, an apostilled consent letter is required (from a Turkish Consulate in their home country or a notary public) for the chid’s application.
  2. If the benefactor is divorced and is the legal guardian of the child, a notarized Turkish translation of the court’s ruling is required.

Primary Resident (Student at KU)

  1. Photocopy of passport ID page
  2. Photocopy of residence permit card (both sides)
  3. Student Enrollment Certificate I
  4. Address Registration Certificate II
  5. Private Health Insurance Policy Document III

Spouse

  1. Address Registration Certificate II
  2. Private Health Insurance Policy Document III
  3. Photocopy of Apostilled Marriage Certificate IV
  4. Photocopies of passport ID, last entry stamp to Türkiye, and visa pages
  5. Photocopy of residence permit card (both sides)
  6. 4 biometric head-shots in ICAO standards taken within the last six months
  7. Receipts of fee payments V

Each Child

  1. Private Health Insurance Policy Document (if s/he is above 18) III
  2. Photocopy of Apostilled Birth Certificate IV
  3. Photocopies of passport ID, last entry stamp to Türkiye, and visa pages
  4. 4 biometric head-shots in ICAO standards taken within the last six months
  5. Photocopy of parents’ passport ID pages
  6. Photocopy of residence permit card (both sides)
  7. Receipts of fee payments V
I Student Enrollment Certificate must be in Turkish. You can request it through the KUSIS system and collect it from the Registrar’s Office (click here to watch how to do it).

II Please find our instructions in the below link:

Obtaining Official Documents

 

III Please contact our Human Resources Department to ask for your and your dependents’ health insurance policy documents. You can send an email to catespare@ku.edu.tr

If you do not have any health insurance, please click here to see our recommended insurance companies.

IV These apostilled certificates must be translated to Turkish and notarized.

If your country is not a party to the Apostille Convention, you have two options:

  1. Before arriving in Türkiye, you can contact a Turkish mission in your country. The Turkish mission can translate and approve your certificates.
  2. After arriving in Türkiye, you should visit the consulate of your country and get your certificates stamped. Then you should visit the Sarıyer District Governor (Kaymakamlık- 5th floor) to have your stamped documents approved. Finally, you must get them translated to Turkish and notarized. We suggest the 23rd Notary Public since its location and the translation service it provides are convenient.

List of Parties to the Apostille Convention

Please click here to see the Apostille Convention Countries (Convention of 5 October 1961 Abolishing the Requirement of Legalisation for Foreign Public Documents).

V – There are 2 types of fees that a dependent must pay: Application Fee, Card Fee,

Since the dependents do not have their foreign ID numbers yet, they must obtain tax ID numbers to be able to pay their fees. To learn how to purchase a tax ID number, please visit our Tax ID web page. 

Payment of all fee types can ONLY be made to Tax Offices. The closest tax office to campus is the Sarıyer Tax Office. For directions, click here.

Traveling While Your Application is in Process
For the process, you may check this page.