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Student Residence Permit

Student Residence Permit is issued by Presidency of Migration Management (Göç İdaresi Başkanlığı). VisaAI tracks 27 official requirements for it, each traced to the government page that states it.

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Each requirement below is written in plain English by VisaAI. The indented text beneath it is quoted from Presidency of Migration Management (Göç İdaresi Başkanlığı)’s own page, so you can check what we say against what they say. Where a quotation shows “ ... ”, text has been left out.

Conditions you must meet

  • Legal basis: Articles 38-41 of Law 6458 and Articles 35-39 of the implementing regulationBoth instruments in one sentence.
    Student residence permit is regulated in Articles 38-41 of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection No. 6458. Additionally, student residence permit is issued in Articles 35-39 of Regulation for Implementation of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection.
  • Who qualifies: primary and secondary students without a family permit — required only once over 18Under-18s may study without a permit; the requirement starts at 18, which the authority states in the same sentence.
    - Foreigners who shall receive primary or secondary education and who do not hold a family residence permit (Without taking residence permit, foreigners can continue studying until they are 18 (for primary and secondary education). However, when they are over 18 and still go on taking secondary education, those students are required to take residence permit.),
  • Who qualifies: associate, undergraduate, graduate, postgraduate, TUS and DUS studentsThe authority names the medical and dental specialty examinations itself.
    - Foreigners who shall attend an associate, undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate programme or receive education for speciality in medicine (TUS) or in dentistry (DUS) are issued residence permits.
  • A student permit sponsors only a spouse and children — no other relativesA limit on what the permit is worth to a wider family.
    Student residence permit ensures the student to be only the supporter of spouse and children in family residence permit applications. It does not provide any right to the other relatives about residence permit.
  • Duration: not exceeding the period of study where that is under a yearThe permit follows the course, not the calendar.
    If the period of study is less than a year, the duration of the residence permit shall not exceed the period of study.
  • Study through state institutions: issued for the period of studyA separate rule for state-sponsored study.
    Residence permit may be issued for the period of study to the foreigners who shall receive education in Turkey through state institutions and organizations.
  • Primary and secondary: one year at a time with parental or guardian consent, renewable throughoutConsent is part of the requirement.
    Foreigners who shall receive primary and secondary education, subject to the consent of their parents or legal guardian a one year student residence permit may be granted and renewed throughout the course of their study.
  • Condition: not falling within the scope of Article 7Second of three.
    -not to fall within the scope of Article 7;
  • Changing faculty, department or institution within the same province keeps the permitConditional on not breaking studentship and announcing in time; the permit is extended if shorter than the study period.
    a) In case of a faculty or department change in the same educational institution or change in educational institution in the same province, on the condition of not taking a break in studentship and announcing in time, current residence permit is preserved. If the residence permit period is shorter than period of study, it is extended as much as period of study from the expiration.
  • Moving to a different province CANCELS the permit and a new one is issued by the governorateThe opposite outcome from a same-province move.
    b) In cases where the foreign continue his education in a different province, current residence permit shall be cancelled and a new residence permit valid for the duration of the education shall be issued by the governorate.
  • Students may work with a work permit — but associate and undergraduate students only AFTER their first yearThe delay is the part most easily lost, and applications go to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
    Foreign students attending an associate, undergraduate, graduate or postgraduate programme in Turkey may work, provided that they obtain a work permit. However the right of work for associate or undergraduate students starts after the first year (of their study). Work permit applications shall be made to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security.
  • Cancelled if the requirements are not met or no longer applyFirst of four.
    - The requirements for issuing a student residence permit are not met or no longer apply;
  • Cancelled on evidence the studies are possibly not to be continuedSecond of four, and it turns on evidence rather than a formal withdrawal.
    - Evidence exists that the studies are possibly not to be continued;
  • Cancelled if used for a purpose other than it was issued forThird of four.
    - It is determined that the student residence permit has been used for a purpose other than it is issued for;
  • Cancelled on a current removal decision or entry banFourth of four.
    - There is a current removal decision or an entry ban to Turkey with respect to the foreigner
  • Those amounts apply to citizens of countries in NO country group — Serbia, Fiji, Norway and the Northern Mariana IslandsThe scoping sentence. Without it the figures above read as universal, and they are not: every other nationality is priced by a country group this page does not reproduce.
    Residence permit fees stated above are applied to citizens of Serbia, Fiji, Norway and Northern Mariana Islands which are not included in any country group.
  • Ten jurisdictions are EXEMPT from the permit fee under reciprocityQuoted whole. Naming some and not others would be the worst possible summary of a list that decides whether somebody pays at all.
    The Czech Republic, Denmark, Ireland, Kosovo, Naples, Sri Lanka, Syria, Turkmenistan, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and Palestine were exempted from residence permit fees in accordance with the reciprocity principle.
  • The Ministry of Treasury and Finance sets these fees on the reciprocity principleWho decides, and on what basis — which is why the amounts above can move without the law changing.
    The Ministry of Treasury and Finance is authorized to determine residence permit fees, taking into account the principle of reciprocity.

Documents you must provide

  • Condition: supporting information and documents for the aim of stayFirst of three conditions under Article 39.
    -to submit supporting information and documents related to aim of stay in Turkey (Article 38);
  • Condition: information on the address of stay in TurkeyThird of three.
    -submit information on their address of stay in Turkey.
  • Health insurance: request general health insurance within THREE MONTHS of admission, or private insurance becomes mandatoryA deadline that silently converts into a cost. Quoted whole.
    Another health insurance is not required if the students request the general health insurance within three months from the date of admission according to the rules of Social Insurances and General Health Insurance Law. However, if they lose the right of carrying insurance by not requesting within three months, private health insurance is required.

Government fees

  • The permit document carries a fee set annually — with NO exemption for any nationalityResidence permit documents are "valuable paper" under Law 210. The no-exemption clause is in the same sentence and is what distinguishes this fee from the permit fee below, which some nationalities are exempt from.
    Residence permit documents are within the scope of valuable paper in accordance with the Law No. 210 on Valuable Papers and are subject to a document fee, the amount of which is determined annually by the Ministry of Finance. There is no exemption from the document fee for citizens of any country.
  • The 2026 document fee, and the gazette that set itEffective 1 January 2026, from the communique published in Official Gazette 33117 of 24 December 2025. The citation is quoted because it is what makes the figure checkable.
    The residence permit fee, which will be effective as of 1 January 2026, as determined by the General Communique of the Directorate General of Public Accounts published in the Official Gazette dated 24 December 2025 and numbered 33117, is specified in the table below.
  • Residence permit document: TRY 964.00 (2026)TRY 964Quoted with the row label above it, because the amount alone does not say what it buys.
    RESIDENCE PERMIT DOCUMENT ... 964,00 TL
  • The 2026 permit fee basis, and the gazette that set itEffective 1 January 2026, from the circular published in Official Gazette 33124 of 31 December 2025. The authority scopes this to "citizens of countries not included in the list".
    For citizens of countries not included in the list, the residence permit fee amounts—which will take effect as of January 1, 2026, as determined by the General Circular on the Fees Act published in the Official Gazette No. 33124 dated December 31, 2025—are listed below.
  • First month: TRY 348.10 per day, floored at TRY 653.70 and capped at TRY 3,359.90TRY 3,359.9 maximum · TRY 653.7 minimum · TRY 348.1 per dayA per-day rate with both a floor and a ceiling, all three in one sentence. A short stay pays the floor, not the daily rate.
    The residence permit fee is 348.10 Turkish Lira per day for up to one month. (this amount shall not be less than 653.70 TL and shall not be more than 3.359.90 TL for each permit for the first month.
  • Each month after the first: TRY 2,232.30TRY 2,232.3 per monthA flat monthly rate replacing the per-day calculation.
    For each month after the first month, the fee is 2,232.30 Turkish Lira.

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