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himynameise · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 29 Location: New York

Someone on the mymerhaba forums just posted that tourist visas for U.S. citizens now cost $60 instead of $20. Can anyone validate this claim?

It seems like it must have been a relatively recent development given that no one here has posted about it yet.

eclectic · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 1122

THis should be a breeze to check out; just go to any Turkish consular website and Im sure it will be there.

fishmb · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Istanbul

The consular information pages are not updated that often. I've been trying to verify this and haven't seen anything. OP: can you give me a link to the my merhaba forum?

Vchick81 · Joined: 08 Jan 2010 Posts: 15

I arrived on March 7, 2010 and the visa cost was $20. If they raised it, it must have happened days ago.

fishmb · Joined: 08 Jul 2009 Posts: 184 Location: Istanbul

I have some friends visiting now and they just arrived yesterday (March 13th) and their visas were each $20, so it looks like the price hike was just a rumor or maybe people confused about the price of other visas. I think Canadians have to pay $60 for whatever reason.

himynameise · Joined: 27 May 2005 Posts: 29 Location: New York

Yeah, I looked up all the prices, but everything on the consular Web sites still said $20.I think the guy at mymerhaba must have talked to Canadians and mistook them for Americans or something.

Either that or it was a very short-term measure taken in response to the congressional commission's vote on the Armenian issue...that's the only semi-logical explanation I can think of.

The post is here if you want to check it out.

Anyway, glad to hear that the $20 price seems to still be in place!