Recently everyone has turned to migrate to the Republic of Turkey because of its spectacular landscape, the generosity of the people, and the easiness of its paperwork procedures, whether for traveling, working chances, or obtaining citizenship.
In this article, we will talk about how to obtain citizenship and what are the reasons for rejecting some cases in Turkish citizenship applications.
Rejection Cases of Turkish citizenship application
It is possible to reject your papers, but not with a final rejection, where you can amend your papers and re-submit them again.
let us learn about the reasons:
-The submitted papers are incomplete and missing one of the important papers.
-One of the papers is not notarized by the Republic of Turkey.
-Failure to fulfill any condition of what we have mentioned in this article.
-In the case of real estate investment: if you sold the property before the period mentioned in the law which is three years, you cannot obtain citizenship, or after three years you sold the property to the person you bought it from. your application will be rejected, or Turkish citizenship will be withdrawn from you if you obtained it.
-If you did not marry legally and this marriage was not certified by the court, or it was a customary marriage or through a sheik, or if it was proven that this marriage is for a benefit and not a real marriage.
-If you established a company and failed to fulfill the conditions, such as the number of employees or missing documents of any of the company’s papers.
-If it is proven that you committed fraud or submitted fake papers.
-If you provided fake certificates in order to obtain a job, your application will be immediately rejected
-lack of knowledge in the Turkish language
- Submitting fake academic certificates
-Security reasons for which your request cannot be accepted.
Rejected Cases of Turkish citizenship and the reality about the Syrian refugees rejected cases
lately, there was a rumor spreading that the Turkish government rejects all Syrian refugees' applications for citizenship where it was a hope for a lot of them to gain a new home till, they can return back to their original homeland again, but this was just a rumor, and the rejection was for several reasons:
-Providing fake certificates to work as teachers and the government discovered these fake certificates
-Failure to complete the required documents
-Failure to submit the requested papers to obtain Turkish citizenship
-Failure to meet the necessary conditions to obtain Turkish citizenship.
the rejection was because of their negligence, and they can complete the papers, and resubmit the application again
Cases of rejection of the Turkish citizenship application of Syrian applicants
There are two famous cases whose papers were rejected, let discuss them:
The first case: a person name is Muhammad, he is a teacher, and after his papers cost him around a thousand lira his application was rejected. and when he asked about the reasons, an official officer answered that reason for rejection could be because of security reasons, or his lack of knowledge of the Turkish language, or fake academic certificates.
The second case: It is also for a teacher
her application was rejected after it was confirmed by her personal email and a code, and the reason for rejection was not completing the required papers.
Advantages of Turkish citizenship
Turkish citizenship is considered one of the easiest nationalities that can be obtained compared to other European countries. Besides, it gives you the opportunity to travel to a hundred countries around the world without a visa, in addition to what distinguishes life in Turkey, which is:
-The Turkish environment is considered the safest in this period.
-the availability of many and varied work opportunities.
-You can also open a bank account, whether in Turkish local banks or international banks.
-Also, Turkish passport holders will benefit from the pension plans which distinguish turkey from other European countries,
-Excellent quality health facilities
-Free education and the possibility for foreigners with residency permits to benefit from.
-Turkey's infrastructure development
- Turkish cuisine is well known worldwide and is very distinguished from other international cuisines, so you can enjoy delicious Turkish food.
-Turkey is also famous for its cultural diversity
-We must not forget the wonderful and spectacular nature of Turkey.
Methods of obtaining Turkish citizenship
obtaining Turkish citizenship is not that difficult, or easy, but compared to the conditions in other countries it is considered easy, also it is easier than other European countries.
To obtain Turkish citizenship, you should have the following:
-Marry a Turkish citizen, or of Turkish origin, for a period no less than three years to ensure that it is a real marriage not to benefit from Turkish citizenship only, it should be legal marriage certified by the court in order to be considered in the application.
- Working legally in Turkey for a period of no less than five years.
- own a property worth two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. where it was before 1 million dollars.
-You can also establish your own company and employ fifty employees for a period of no less than three years to obtain Turkish citizenship.
-You can put an amount of five hundred thousand dollars, equivalent to half a million dollars, in a Turkish bank as a deposit for a period of 3 years to obtain citizenship as well
the required Documents to obtain Turkish citizenship
we mentioned previously the conditions for obtaining citizenship, and each condition has its special requirements:
-5 personal photos with a white background for all members of the family, the husband, wife, and children under 18 years old.
-3 Translated copies of the husband's passport and one translated copy for the wife's
-Marriage contract certified by the notary office.
-a certified copy of a civil registry record from a notary office and A birth certificate for all the family translated and certified by a notary office.
-A birth certificate for children under the age of 18, extracted from the hospital where they were born translated, and certified by a notary office.
-The registration paper, filled out by the certified lawyer and sent to the buyer by mail
--Health insurance for one year for residency
-The title deed of the apartment
Earthquake insurance for each apartment-
Expertise report-
All required documents must be translated into the Turkish language and certified by the Turkish notary office in order to be approved for the application file of the citizenship without trouble.
Some notes on the conditions and papers required to obtain citizenship
according to the method of obtaining citizenship, we will offer you some tips:
-Marriage: requires a certified marriage contract at the court and proof that the marriage lasted for three years. if it was a customary marriage or by a sheik will not be considered or recognized by the Turkish Republic.
-Real estate investment: requires the papers of the property you own, which is valued at a quarter of a million dollars, without the added value taxes, or proof that you purchased this property with this amount.
-Work for 5 years: Submit papers proving that you were legally worked in the Republic of Turkey for five years through a work permit and health insurance.
-The private company: Proof of ownership of a company by providing official papers of declarations, documents of ownership, and
employment contracts for workers for at least 3 years.
-Bank investment: documents prove that you have half a million dollars or more as a deposit at your bank account
and there were no withdrawal activities for any amount for a period of three years.
The sequence of Turkish citizenship application
to be able to obtain Turkish citizenship
first, you must provide all the required documents so that your application will not be rejected so you will have to submit it all over again, and here we will list the steps that your application will go through:
-Submit the required papers to the competent committee for approval according to any method that you choose for obtaining citizenship.
-Your file will be sent for evaluation at the designated authority.
-After that, the file will be sent to the Ministers Council.
-Then after deep evaluation, the application will either be approved or rejected. but if your application is rejected, you will be informed of the reasons, so you can fix the issue, rearrange your papers, make sure that there are no missing documents, and you may apply again, as the rejection is not final.
after reading this article we hope that we have enlightened you regarding all information related to obtaining Turkish citizenship and the application processing sequence in detail. And most of the applicants would be accepted if they met the criteria and it's very rare to reject cases, but even though they can re-apply again.