Didim Today

Are you trying to get or find out about how to obtain or get a residence permit for your new born baby in Turkey? Bureaucracy makes life difficult for everybody. We the people make things very complicated. I mean it -- life is becoming more and more complicated every day. Just recently I heard about a law firm hired by another law firm for the simple reason that they were not able to keep up with EU laws and regulations. Thank God we are not there yet. I have been writing about residence permits and work permits for years now and have received all kinds of questions about the issuance of residence permits.

But never did I think about applying for a residence permit for a newborn baby. Did you know that you have to obtain a residence permit even for a newborn baby? “Hello Mr. Çektir. I read one of your replies about a similar issue on the Internet. We have a problem and would like to know if this can be a court case. What is your opinion on it? “I am a foreign citizen living in Turkey with a residence permit.

My husband is a Turkish citizen. My daughter was born in Turkey in October 2010, and I have obtained a foreign passport, social security card and birth certificate for her through the consulate. Both my husband and I want our daughter to have a single, foreign citizenship. We do not want her to be a dual (foreign/Turkish) citizen due to reasons related to regulations governing education.

We would like her to choose when she turns 18. I now need to get a residence permit for her to stay in Turkey, but the police [yabancılar şube] are asking for a MERNİS paper [from the Nüfus Müdürlüğü] since she was born in Turkey. Even though this paper is not listed on their website as a required document, they say since the child was born in Turkey, she needs to be registered with the Nüfus Müdürlüğü before they can issue a residence permit.

When we go to the Nüfus Müdürlüğü to obtain the paper, they say the baby can only be recorded under my husband’s name and that this will automatically make her a Turkish citizen. We have friends in a similar situation and since their child was born outside of Turkey, they did not need a MERNİS paper but instead received the residence permit by only showing the police a foreign birth certificate.]” I have to stop and highlight the following question as it is important.

I will write about it in the coming weeks. “Can we be forced to accept automatic Turkish citizenship just to get residency for my daughter against our will when she is already a foreign citizen? Does her current status as a foreign citizen provide her with any protection against forced dual nationality?” The question above deserves a single article on its own, and I will now focus on the application for a residence permit for a newborn baby.

I will write about this in the coming weeks. Do you have to apply for a residence permit for a baby? If the baby is a foreign national and living in Turkey, then yes, you have to apply for a residence permit. But this does not necessarily mean that you have to apply for a separate residence permit. Since the mother already holds a valid residence permit, the children can be registered in the residence permit of either of their parents.

Residence permits are personal documents, but as is the case with passports, children are to jointly use the residence permit of their mother or father. The police asking for Turkish birth registry records should accept any document that proves the relationship between the mother and the baby. You should be able to submit a document prepared by your country of origin for this purpose.

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