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teacherdude
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OK, Here's the update. I WAS FINED.
Why? I hear you ask.
When I left Turkey for Qatar a few years ago I didn't cancel my hikamet(Yes it had expired). So basically I have been fined on a monthly basis between my last legal hikamet and today.
Yes, i have been doing visa runs for the past 2 years.
In the end I had to pay 275 on top of the normal fees.
Thrifty, Sheikh, did you cancel your last hikamet when you went off to warmer climes? |
Are you saying you are supposed to cancel your Res. Permit, if leaving Turkey?
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Sheikh Inal Ovar
Joined: 04 Dec 2005
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Location: Melo Drama School
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 4:11 am Post subject: |
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| dmb wrote: |
OK, Here's the update. I WAS FINED.
Why? I hear you ask.
When I left Turkey for Qatar a few years ago I didn't cancel my hikamet(Yes it had expired). So basically I have been fined on a monthly basis between my last legal hikamet and today.
Yes, i have been doing visa runs for the past 2 years.
In the end I had to pay 275 on top of the normal fees.
Thrifty, Sheikh, did you cancel your last hikamet when you went off to warmer climes? |
Nope ... I think I'll make some enquiries at the consulate and see if I can't avoid the queues of Istanbul Emniyet ...
No chance of the same c#ck-up here ... the procedure for departing is as excruciating as it is for arriving ... the whole process takes several weeks and several pages of checklists ... and you are even accompanied to the airport ...
Compared to the procedure in Turkey ... which consists of a last-day-of-work "Well OK .. I'll be off then" |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:19 am Post subject: |
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Are you saying you are supposed to cancel your Res. Permit, if leaving Turkey? |
Yip, that's what they said. But if you have no plans of returning then why bother? |
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kestane
Joined: 16 Feb 2007
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Location: Istanbul
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:00 pm Post subject: Yabanci police |
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Hi DMB,
Can you please clarify why you were charged...I don't quite understand.
1. You left the country
2. Your Ikamet expired
3. You came back without an Ikamet. (you purchased a new month visa?)
4. You tried to renew? or you tried to get a new one?
Getting ready to renew mine, I am a little concerned about the money requirements.
How much money did you show and how much time did you get?
I bought a six month for 320+/- ytl last year and showed 2,200 YTL in the bank. |
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yaramaz
Joined: 05 Mar 2003
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Location: Not where I was before
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 9:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Mine had been expired about 4 months when I got a new one but they didn't say anything about cancelling it or fining me. I think it cost about 350ytl/one year. Is this fining thing new? It sounds quite odd. I thought ikamets just...expired on their own. |
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FGT
Joined: 14 Sep 2003
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Location: Turkey
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| Posted: Thu Mar 29, 2007 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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| As far as I'm aware, an ikamet obtained as part of the package of working in Turkey is valid only as long as you work at that place. If you stop working there but the ikamet has time to run, you can continue to use it only with the goodwill of your erstwhile employers. If they declare to the authorities that you no longer work for them, you have something like a fornight to leave the country without being fined. If you continue to live in the country and use your ikamet until the date expires, you stand the risk of being fined IF the authorities check and find out that it was cancelled/became invalid through you not working at the specified place any more. |
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Baba Alex
Joined: 17 Aug 2004
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:09 am Post subject: |
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| Mine had been expired about 4 months when I got a new one but they didn't say anything about cancelling it or fining me. |
Push up bra? |
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yaramaz
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 7:18 am Post subject: |
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| No, Baba- the crotchless panties and suspenders. Elastic just gave out. Damn shame. |
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dmb
Joined: 12 Feb 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 10:03 am Post subject: |
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Can you please clarify why you were charged...I don't quite understand. |
I don't know the exact reason. The policeman could only tell me it was because I hadn't cancelled my last hikamet which had expired in 2002.
Someone earlier mentioned being escorted to the airport. I do have memories of this happening to a teacher. I can't remember the reason. Back in the 90s the police used to regularly come into bars checking id and one night a teacher from the Ec didn't have his on him. He was arrested and detained all weekend until the school sorted it out. At least they don't do this anymore. Or maybe the bars I go to the owners are paying their bribes. |
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Golightly
Joined: 08 Feb 2005
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Location: in the bar, next to the raki
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| Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2007 11:27 am Post subject: |
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| I recall about 25 of us once having to pay a hefty bribe to a couple of rozzers because we'd persuaded the owner of the Cicek in B'koy that a lock-in was a good idea. It was, right up to the point when the Mirrorless Ones turned up. |
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