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naf · Joined: 22 Sep 2004 Posts: 15 Location: Istanbul

If you have a school that has agreed to hire you and they have asked you to wait in London until they have the paperwork ready for picking up the visa then wait and keep in contact with them until it goes through.

If you don't have a job lined up yet you should hurry and come over because the school year is starting now... If you get hired by a private university or K-12 school they will often pay for you to go back to London when the paperwork is done and pick up the stamp. Private schools usually handle the ikamet process once you give them your stamped passport too.

Some schools don't bother with the paperwork and many offer 100 dollars or so for a tourist visa trip every three months.

Good luck. The Turkish beaurocracy is often changing and unpredictable and never really fast. Much of it seems to depend on the amount of chai and cigarettes consumed in a given office.

vre · Joined: 17 Mar 2004 Posts: 371

I agree, you should wait!!! Yes it does take that time to get your visa from the consulate but I just kept phoning and phoning and eventually they sped things up a little. Is your employer pushing you?

gelin · Joined: 09 Mar 2003 Posts: 144 Location: Istanbul, Turkey

It would be ideal if you could enter Turkey with your work visa. Then you wouldn't have to leave Turkey and go pick it up back in London. You would have to go to the local Yabanci Sube to have your ikamet (residence booklet) processed, however.

If you don't have your work visa yet, you could go into Turkey on a tourist visa and then go back to London when your other visa is ready. Four to six weeks sounds like a fast one -- there are others that take months. There are many government departments involved in foreign work visas now.

Good luck.

OzBurn · Joined: 03 May 2004 Posts: 199

JoshuaJ · Posted: Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

I want to know the same thing for Spain. I would be interested to see the response for Turkey.

Hector_Lector · Joined: 20 Apr 2004 Posts: 548

Oh no, he's here as well.

In case you don�t know, Josh is American and he is so annoyed that Spain will not roll out the red carpet for him. Jeez, he�s a native speaker, yet still they expect him to conform to their rules!

Hopefully, Turkey is much more subserviant, and will realise that Josh is he Man. No more queueing in Consulates for him!

JoshuaJ · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:54 am Post subject:

you are what is called an idiot. Get a life.

molly farquharson · Joined: 16 Jun 2004 Posts: 839 Location: istanbul

My understanding is that a degree in English is sufficient, but a TEFL cert is required if you have a degree in something else. For language schools I know that is the case. With those you can get a work permit, eventually, but I can tell you it takes forever, whether you are in or out of country.

JoshuaJ · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2006 8:01 pm Post subject:

so how would you recommend initiating the process of obtaining the work permit? Try in my home country (USA) and have virtually no outcome as I have been told will happen, or wait until I get to my destined EU country?