Documents required for naturalization in Türkiye - a comprehensive report

Inquiring about the papers required for naturalization in Turkey is self-evident for those wishing to obtain Turkish citizenship, because the legal and official steps require you to complete all the necessary papers for the citizenship file.

If you inquired from one of those whose files were delayed and obstructed, he would have told you: The problem was in the papers, he may have forgotten a paper or document and the stages of studying his file were delayed until he was able to secure it.

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What are the documents required for naturalization in Turkey

Since the methods of obtaining Turkish citizenship are multiple and each method differs from the other, you will certainly find during the search for the documents necessary to be provided by candidates for Turkish citizenship, a difference between each method and the other.

In this article, we will talk about the papers in general, and the papers required if you are going to obtain Turkish citizenship by owning real estate in Turkey, with details about hiring a lawyer to follow up on your file:

Generally required documents

Whatever way you want to obtain Turkish citizenship, you must bring the following documents:

Turkish citizenship application form

• You will be handed a Turkish citizenship application form or form by the Immigration Department
• The data must be filled in completely in Turkish
• Any scratch or deletion in the form cancels it, so be sure to photocopy it more than one copy before filling in the data
• The registration form is personal, so any family member must fill out their own form.

Personal Identification Cards

• You must bring your ID card issued by your home country with a translated copy
• You must also bring the Turkish identification card you hold, which has  your own TC number  "such as tourist, real estate, work residency, temporary protection card ... etc"
• Each member of your family included in the Turkish citizenship file must bring their ID cards
• Birth certificates for young children must be brought
• All ID cards issued outside Turkey must be translated into Turkish by a sworn translator and certified by one of the notary offices in Turkey.

Tax Number

• Can be extracted free of charge from the tax department of the region where you reside
• It can also be extracted online from the website of the Turkish Tax Directorate on the Internet.
• It should be remembered that each family member must bring them a tax number.

Ungoverned document "Criminal Record"

• This document is issued by the Ministry of Justice of Turkey, and can be easily extracted by  the E-Devlet application  "e-government in Turkey"
• Print them and keep them until the documents are submitted to the Immigration Department.
• The document must be up-to-date, Turkish employees in the Turkish immigration services usually recommend issuing it only two or three days before the date of submission of the documents, as this document is extracted remotely and without the need to review the competent government institutions.
• But in general, try not to have the date of issuance more than a month before the date of delivery of the documents required for naturalization in your Turkey

Residence Registration Document

• This document is issued by the "Population Department" and can be extracted through the e-government application "E-Devlet".
• Also, try not to have the date of issuance of the document out of date
• Your residential address must be the same in the Population Department and the Immigration Department to avoid any problems that hinder your naturalization file

Passport

• The passport is usually required and the travel document is represented for those who do not hold the passport
• With the exception of those who are required for exceptional nationality from holders of a temporary protection card, the passport in this case is considered a secondary document, if it is found, and if there is no problem. In other cases of naturalization, the passport must be present.
• You must submit with the passport "original" a photocopy of the personal data page, translated into Turkish and certified by one of the notary offices "notary"

Family Book

• Only required from married couples or families in general
• The Turkish family book can be presented if you have proven your marriage in Turkey
• The family book extracted from your home country is also on his behalf, provided that the pages of the personal data of all family members, and the page of the first wife, are translated and certified at the notary office.

Receipt of payment of the Turkish citizenship file fees

The fees are paid either at the Tax Department or one of the accredited banks, and the payment receipt must be obtained and attached with the necessary papers for naturalization in Turkey

Education

The original, a Turkish-translated copy certified from the notary must be attached to the highest certificate obtained, as well as any family member covered by the Turkish citizenship application.

Documents required for naturalization by purchasing a property

In addition to the documents required for naturalization in Turkey in general, if the way you will obtain citizenship is "owning real estate in Turkey", you must provide both the following documents and documents:

Tapu document

The original copy of the title deed "title deed" for the property or properties covered by the naturalization application shall be required, and the notarized sale contract shall act on its behalf.

The property is mortgaged for a period of 3 years against the sale, and this is one of the conditions for obtaining Turkish citizenship by real estate investment.

Learn more: The title deed document in Turkey – all the details about it

Property Appraisal Document in Turkey

• It can also be extracted from the title deed department, and it takes 2 to 5 days at the latest to extract it
• Shelf life is only 3 months

Payment and receivable receipts

These receipts are proof based on the payment of the property price, as well as whether the minimum amount of USD 250,000 has been exceeded.

These receipts are:

• Payment receipt "original" from the property buyer's account
• Receipt "original" from the seller account

The payment receipt must be stamped with the "Original" neighborhood stamp by the bank from which it was sent, and for the receipt it must be stamped with the original stamp from the bank to which the amount was transferred.

Documents required when hiring a lawyer to follow up the file

Many investors may not want to follow up the file of obtaining Turkish citizenship themselves, or they hire a lawyer or a team of lawyers to avoid any problem or obstacle during the application and in the naturalization stages.

Here you must add to the papers required for naturalization in Turkey, which you have prepared the following papers for power of attorney:

• 2 copies of the power of attorney granted to the lawyer to follow up the naturalization file in the concerned institutions and departments
• In the event that there is more than one person in the naturalization file "wife and children", two copies must also be submitted from the power of attorney

And here we must mention some observations:

• A joint power of attorney can be organized for the applicant, his wife and children, but two copies of the power of attorney must be attached to each person.
• Agencies are equipped in notary offices in Turkey

As a follow-up to the observations in general about the documents necessary for naturalization in Turkey, you should read the following paragraph of this article, as it contains all the side details and important notes

Important notes on the documents necessary for naturalization

It is necessary to note the following observations that you may be exposed to while submitting your papers, which are as follows:

You don't have a family book either from Turkey or from your country

In this case, you must bring the marriage contract with a family record, and it is requested from the consulate of your country in Turkey, or from the relevant institutions within the home country.

Then translate it, certify it in the notary, and ratify it in one of the districts of Qaimaqam in the state in which you reside.

If this is not possible, you are forced to submit the Turkish citizenship file on your own without involving your family, but after obtaining citizenship, you may be able to grant family residence to your wife and children under the age of 18, or children with physical disabilities.

I moved to a new residential address

If it was before submitting the papers, there is no problem

You can extract the housing registration from the Population Department, then install it in the Immigration Department, and then when you extract the document from the e-government application, your new address will be the same installed in the Immigration and Population Department.

If this is after submitting the papers, you must take the same steps as before, and then go to the Immigration Department to request the amendment of the citizenship file, and add the new residence registration.

In general, we do not recommend making any change in your information and details permanently during the stages of studying the Turkish citizenship file, but when you do so and for necessity, you are obliged to inform the Immigration Department and amend the information in the file, as well as expect a delay in studying your file.

Bring the originals of each document

Any document or paper requested by you must be present at the time of submission of the original file in addition to the photocopies thereof.

Beware of both of the following while preparing your paperwork

Here are some warnings that you should avoid falling for, in order to ensure the safety of your file, whether from cancellation or delay:

• Change your residential address without informing the Immigration Service
• In the event of the birth of a new baby after submitting your papers, it is preferable not to add him to the citizenship file because this will delay your file, but try to submit a special file to him after obtaining Turkish citizenship
• Do not change your phone number
• Do not give the code of the Turkish citizenship file tracking link to anyone
• Do not be late for the date of delivery of the required documents for naturalization in Turkey
• Beware of submitting any forged document, no matter how simple, and in the event that certain documents are not available, inform the Immigration Department and they will guide you to the solution, and do not get involved in forging documents, thinking that this shortens you time and saves effort, because Turkish law allows the withdrawal of Turkish citizenship in the event that it is proven that there is forgery in any document submitted
• In the event of a divorce or death of one of the individuals included in the file, you must inform the Immigration Department, and bring the required official documents, and in general this will lead to a bit delay in studying your file, but this step must be done.

 

This article was a detailed tour of all the papers and documents necessary in order to obtain Turkish citizenship, with all the notes and warnings accompanying that, and we were always keen, as usual, in any article we present to you to have a comprehensive briefing on all the details of this topic.

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