TURKISH CITIZENSHIP ACQUISITION PROGRAM

Turkey is a country that allows the citizens to have dual nationality and passports, so you do not have to drop your current citizenship to obtain Turkish Citizenship.

If you purchase a property worth 400.000 USD, and if you accept and declare to the authorities that you will not sell it for at least a 3-year period of time, as we will be explaining you below how, you can obtain Turkish Citizenship by getting Turkish National ID Card and Turkish Passport for yourself, for your spouse and for your children under 18 for a lifetime. Your citizenship will never expire. Once you have managed to complete the process and held your property without selling it to a third party for 3 years as promised, your citizenship is guaranteed forever just like your spouse’s and your children’s.

You do not need to live in Turkey at all. If you prefer to keep living in your home country, you will not loose your Turkish citizenship and passport. There is no required period of stays per year to be fulfilled.

Once you obtain your citizenship, your future kids will be born as Turkish citizens as well.

Contrary to the other countries and other citizenship programs, Turkey does not require any language tests or proficiency exams for citizenship applications via foreign investments. As a result of this, you do not need to learn or speak Turkish in order to apply Turkish passport. However, you are highly recommended to learn the basics of the language to integrate into life and dynamics within the community if you choose to live here permanently.

To apply for Turkish citizenship, you need to follow the steps below after the process of buying your property:

-          Put the statement not to sell for three years to obtain the conformity certificate

The applicants need to keep the purchased real estate for minimum 3 years. This 3-year commitment needs to be registered as an annotation within the Title Deed and/or Notarized sales contract in the relevant Land Registry. You do not have to live in Turkey during this period of time. You can rent your property if you wish and sell it after 3-year commitment expired.

-          Apply for residence permit card first, then TR citizenship

After you receive your conformity certificate, you will be ready to apply for residence permit card first, and then for your TR citizenship to the Directorate General of Migration Management.

 At this point, to be able to apply Turkish Citizenship Program, you need to collect the requested documents below:

-          Conformity Certificate: This is the document you will receive by putting annotation to the title deed not to sell it for 3 years.

-          Birth Certificate: The birth certificate or vital record of each applicant, which means both yours and your spouse’s and your children’s certificates will be required.

-          Marital Status: The marital status certificate must be submitted. If you are married, your marriage certificate will be required. If you are divorced, the divorce verdict will be required. If you are single, single status certificate will be required. And if you are widowed, your spouse’s death certificate will be required.

-          Passport: A copy of the original passport of each applicant.

-          10 Biometric Photos: All must be taken with a white background and 5x6 sized for each applicant.

-          PoA: Power of Attorney, a special authorization to the assigned lawyer of our team, is required to do all these steps on behalf you for TR citizenship process. Our lawyers will send the sample to you and accompany you in the Notary physically to assist you well.

-          Health Insurance: This insurance is a requirement for submission and it will be taken care of our legal team.

-          Application forms: This step will be fully filled and completed correctly by our legal team. 

About above documents, please keep it in mind that BOTH Apostilled originals in accordance with the Apostille Convention and Notarised Turkish translations will be required for Turkish citizenship application. If your country is not a state party to the Apostille Convention, then the originals must be stamped and authenticated by the authorities.