METU Student Affairs

BEGINNER VISA

Newly admitted undergraduate or graduate students tend to be to acquire their particular pupil visas by showing their acceptance letters toward nearest Turkish Embassy. Students visa is generally legitimate for just one thirty days. Therefore, these pupils must register into the University within one month after their entry to chicken.

To obtain a student visa, you will need an acceptance letter, a passport legitimate for a permanent, proof of sufficient money when it comes to amount of your education in Turkey (lender declaration, grant document, etc.) therefore the visa fee. Consulates may need additional documents.

RESIDENCE LICENSE

Within three months after subscription to University, pupils are to obtain a "Residence license Information Form" in a sealed envelope from Global Students' workplace. In order to get a residence license, students should submit listed here papers towards Turkish National Police/ Foreigners Product (Emniyet Müdürlüğü/Yabancılar Şubesi):

1. The Residence License Information Form
2. A valid lasting passport and the pupil visa
3. Evidence of enough money during education (bank-account, grant etc.)
4. The cost for Residence Permit
5. Additional possible papers

The Global Students' Office provides a Residence Permit form and abode allow Suggestions Form and then newly accepted intercontinental students. Pupils who're continuing their particular knowledge may have the form from Registrar’s Office web page and after completing it, send it to your departmental advisor when you look at the Registrar’s workplace.

In Substitution For the completed kind, the pupil is granted a Residence Permit Information Form in a sealed envelope to be submitted to your Turkish National Police/ Foreigners Device (Ankara Emniyet Müdürlüğü/ Yabancılar Şube Müdürlüğü). The Police makes a one-year residence license for English Preparatory Class pupils. A residence license valid through their education is drafted for any other students. Consequently students saying the English Preparatory Class and people struggling to finish their particular training inside normal extent must extend their particular residence permit.

Nevertheless, every student must complete a Residence license application at the beginning of each academic 12 months and send their Residence Permit Information type towards the Police.

You certainly do not need to have a visa to enter Turkey throughout the duration your residence license is good. To show, upon returning to chicken from a call to your nation during a semester break, you'll provide your residence permit.

Students whose residence license has expired must increase it within optimum 15 days or keep chicken.

Students who has been “on leave” at under a year can re-enter Turkey with a visitor visa and restore registration. But if “on leave” duration surpasses one-year, they need to get a student visa for renewing their enrollment (Such students cannot enter chicken with a residence permit since it need been cancelled.).

The menu of pupils who are not registered, have graduated, have gone along with their very own might or take leave (have actually frozen the semester), or have actually withdrawn their enrollment is sent to the Turkish National Police/ Foreigners Unit and their particular residence licenses are invalidated. Therefore, these types of pupils are generally to go out of the united states, or even to make an application for a unique residence permit by paying the cost within 15 times.

In the event of a target change, they should notify law enforcement within 48 hours.

There ought to be no erasures or scrapes regarding the residence permit. In case there is reduction, the Turkish National Police/ Foreigners Unit should immediately be informed.