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Residence Permit for Victims of Human Trafficking

Residence Permit for Victims of Human Trafficking is issued by Presidency of Migration Management (Göç İdaresi Başkanlığı). VisaAI tracks 19 official requirements for it, each traced to the government page that states it.

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Requirements change. Confirm every item on Presidency of Migration Management (Göç İdaresi Başkanlığı)’s own page before you apply.

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 48-49 of Law 6458The authority cites its own instrument.
    Residence permit for victims of human trafficking shall be regulated by Articles 48 to 49 of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection Law No. 6458.
  • And Articles 45 and 46 of the implementing regulationThe second instrument.
    Besides, residence permit for victims of human trafficking shall be regulated by Articles 45 and 46 of the Regulation for Implementation of the Law on Foreigners and International Protection.
  • Who qualifies: victims — OR where strong circumstantial evidence suggests they might beThe lower evidential threshold is the point and is quoted as written.
    A residence permit for victims of human trafficking shall be granted to foreigners who are victims of human trafficking or where there is strong circumstantial evidence that they might be victims.
  • Duration: thirty days, issued by governoratesThe shortest permit on this page.
    The residence permit for victims of human trafficking shall be issued for thirty days by governorates.
  • Renewable in six-month periods, to a total not exceeding three yearsBoth the increment and the ceiling are in one sentence.
    The residence permit may be renewed for six months periods. However, the total duration shall not exceed three years.
  • The conditions attached to other residence permit types are NOT soughtThe same waiver as the humanitarian permit.
    Conditions attached to other types of residence permit shall not be sought while issuing these residence permits.
  • Cancelled where the person re-connects with the perpetrators of their OWN VOLITIONThe volition qualifier is what the protection below turns on.
    - In cases where it is determined that foreigners have re-connected with the perpetrators of the crime through their own volition;
  • Cancelled where the compelling conditions no longer applySecond of three grounds.
    - In cases where the compelling conditions no longer apply;
  • Cancelled where it is revealed the person is not a victimThird of three grounds.
    - In cases where it is revealed that foreigners are not victims
  • NOT cancelled where the contact was outside the person's will — coercion, intimidation, violence or threatThe safeguard that makes the volition qualifier meaningful. Published as its own requirement so it cannot be separated from the cancellation rule.
    the residence permit for victims of human trafficking shall be cancelled. However, if it is found out that it is committed outside the will, depending on the reasons such as coercion, intimidation, violence or threat, permit in question shall not be cancelled.
  • 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.

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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