Immigration Lawyer in Muğla

Seven days from the date the decision is served on you, your legal representative or your lawyer. The application is made to the administrative court, and you must also notify the authority that issued the decision. The court's ruling is final. Unless you consent otherwise, you cannot be removed from Turkey during the period allowed for the application or while the proceedings are pending.

Detention in a removal centre may not exceed six months. It may be extended by up to a further six months only where the removal process cannot be completed because you do not cooperate or do not provide correct information or documents about your country. The governorate must assess every month whether continued detention is necessary, and detention must be ended immediately where it is not.

Yes. You, your legal representative or your lawyer may apply to the magistrate judge. The application does not suspend the detention. The judge decides within five days and that decision is final. You may apply again if the circumstances justifying detention have ended or changed. Where you cannot afford a lawyer, legal assistance is provided on request under the Attorneys Act.

The law provides for residence at a specified address, reporting obligations, family-based return, return counselling, voluntary work in services of public benefit, a financial guarantee, and electronic monitoring. Where one or more of these is imposed, the total period may not exceed twenty-four months. An electronic monitoring decision can be challenged before the magistrate judge, who decides within five days.

There are six types: short-term, family, student, long-term, humanitarian, and permit for victims of human trafficking. Each has different conditions, durations and consequences. Applying under the wrong type leads to refusal on that ground alone, and refusals stay on your record and affect later applications. This is why the type is settled before anything is filed.

A short-term permit is not granted, or is cancelled and not renewed, where one or more of the statutory conditions is not met or ceases to exist, where the permit is found to have been used for a purpose other than the one it was granted for, or where there is a valid deportation decision or entry ban against you. Cancellation on grounds of time spent outside Turkey is governed by regulation, which is why long absences are a common cause.

Common examples are holding a student residence permit without actually pursuing studies, or working while holding a short-term permit granted for another purpose. Where this is established the permit is cancelled and you may be asked to leave Turkey. The cancellation is an administrative act and can be challenged, but in practice it is often faster to assess whether you qualify for a different permit type.

For foreign nationals already in Turkey the application is made by the employer, online and on your behalf. If you are applying from abroad, you apply to a Turkish consulate in your country and your employer completes the domestic side of the application within the same period. A work permit is valid for the employer and workplace for which it was issued; a change of employer requires a new application.

No. Being a shareholder does not by itself give you the right to work. A foreign national who will actually work in the company — including as a director — needs a separate work permit. This distinction is frequently overlooked and leads to penalties for unauthorised work, which are imposed on both the employer and the foreign national.

The Turquoise Card is a document in the nature of an indefinite work permit, granted to foreign nationals considered qualified by reference to their education, professional experience, contribution to science and technology, or the investment and employment effect of their activity in Turkey. The first three years are a transition period; if the assessment at the end of it is positive, the transition annotation is removed. Family members of the holder are also granted residence.

For the ordinary route the applicant must be of age and have capacity under their own national law; have resided in Turkey without interruption for five years before the application; confirm by their conduct an intention to settle in Turkey; have no disease constituting a danger to public health; be of good moral character; speak sufficient Turkish; have income or a profession sufficient to support themselves and their dependants; and present no obstacle in terms of national security and public order.

No. Marriage to a Turkish citizen does not confer citizenship directly. A foreign national who has been married to a Turkish citizen for at least three years, where the marriage subsists, may apply. The conditions examined are living together as a family, not engaging in activity incompatible with the marriage, and presenting no obstacle in terms of national security and public order. If the Turkish spouse dies after the application, the requirement of living together is not applied.

The law allows foreign nationals who make investments within the defined scope to acquire Turkish citizenship by presidential decision, provided there is no obstacle in terms of national security and public order. The categories of investment and the minimum amounts are set by secondary legislation and have changed several times. For that reason the current figures and conditions must be confirmed before any commitment is made — this is not a page to rely on for the amount.

A restriction code is an entry on your record that triggers limits on entry to Turkey or on residence. It can cause residence applications to be refused or entry to be prevented at the border. Where the underlying administrative act was unlawful, or the reason for the code no longer exists, removal can be requested from the administration and, if refused, through an annulment action. The first step is establishing which code has been applied and on what basis.

Overstaying leads to an administrative fine and, depending on the length of the overstay, to a ban on entering Turkey. The length of the ban is set by reference to the overstay and your circumstances. Paying the fine and leaving voluntarily can affect the duration of the ban. Because later residence applications are directly affected by this record, an overstay should be addressed immediately rather than left to run.

There are three. Refugee status applies to those unable to return to their country owing to a well-founded fear of persecution arising from events in European countries. Conditional refugee status applies to those with the same fear arising from events outside Europe. Subsidiary protection is granted to those who qualify for neither but would face the death penalty, torture, or serious harm from indiscriminate violence if returned. The status affects the rights and the timescales that follow.

No. Temporary protection is granted to people who have been forced to leave their country and have arrived at the borders in a mass movement seeking urgent protection; it is applied without an individual status determination. International protection is decided individually on application. The two regimes differ in their rules on work, travel and residence, and change of province and work permits under temporary protection are subject to separate authorisations.

Not automatically. A recognition or enforcement action must be brought. Recognition gives the judgment the effect of a final judgment and of conclusive evidence; enforcement allows it to be executed in Turkey. The court examines whether there is reciprocity with the state that gave the judgment, whether the matter falls within the exclusive jurisdiction of the Turkish courts, whether the judgment is clearly contrary to Turkish public policy, and whether the defendant was properly summoned and represented.

Yes. A power of attorney can be issued at a Turkish consulate in your country of residence, or before a notary abroad with an apostille and a sworn translation. Once it reaches me, the file can be run without your presence in Turkey; your attendance is required only where a court specifically calls for it. The first consultation can be held by telephone, WhatsApp or e-mail before any power of attorney is issued.