Work permit extension conditions
Attention: The minimum wage amount to be applied to foreigners was updated on 01.07.2022.
Work permits given to foreigners in Turkey are given for one year at the first application. However, work permit extension applications can be made for two years and the workplace of the foreigner must meet certain criteria. For foreigners who have completed two years, the work permit can be extended for three years.
First of all, the extension of the work permit is made by the employer or by a consultancy firm under its power of attorney, just as in the first application. Foreigners cannot obtain or extend a work permit on their own behalf and account.
Documents Required For companies to Extend Foreign Work Permit
for Companies
- Five of your insured Turkish personnel must have worked for a foreigner in your workplace within the previous year.
- The salary of the foreigner must be paid in full through the bank.
- The foreigner must have made SGK payments and have no debts.
- The employer must not have any tax liability.
- According to the job title of the foreigner, the company must have made an activity and turnover. For example, if he is working as a foreign salesperson, the company must have foreign sales.
- The foreigner must not have stayed outside of Turkey for more than six months in a year.
- The foreigner should not have been involved in any crime while residing in Turkey with a work permit.
- The number of Turkish citizens who will perform the duties performed by the foreigner should not have increased. For example, if a foreigner is working as an English teacher and there are many Turks who are looking for a job as an English teacher at İŞKUR, the work permit is not extended and you are asked to employ Turkish personnel.
- The application for extension of the work permit can be made within fifty-nine days (59) before the expiry of the work permit and in any case must be submitted before the last day. If the work permit extension is not made on time, the foreigner is sent to his home country and a new work permit application is made through the Turkish embassy as the first application.
- For a foreigner whose work permit will be extended, 5 insured Turkish personnel at the workplace is also obligatory in work permit extension applications.
Home services
- If the foreigner works in elderly care, the person cared for must be alive.
- If the foreigner works in child care, the child being cared for must not have completed the age of fifteen (15).
- The foreigner’s SGK payments must be made regularly.
- The foreigner must not have stayed outside of Turkey for more than six months in a year.
- The foreigner should not have been involved in any crime while residing in Turkey with a work permit.
For private educational institutions
- The balance in the number of students, instructors and foreigners in the first application of the institution must be intact.
- The number of students of the institution must have increased in order to apply for a work permit extension for foreigners working in educational institutions with the title of public relations, guest relations staff.
- Five of your insured Turkish personnel must have worked for a foreigner in your workplace within the past year.
- The salary of the foreigner must be paid in full through the bank.
- The foreigner must have made SGK payments and have no debts.
- The corporation must not have any tax liabilities.
- The foreigner must not have stayed outside of Turkey for more than six months in a year.
- The foreigner should not have been involved in any crime while residing in Turkey with a work permit.
- For a foreigner whose work permit will be extended, 5 insured Turkish personnel at the workplace is also obligatory in work permit extension applications.
For civil society organizations
- The duration of the Foreign NGO Activity certificate should not be less than six months.
- The fact that no terrorist organization convict or sympathizer has worked in foreign NGOs, regardless of whether they are Turkish or foreign.
- The fact that foreign NGOs were not given a negative opinion by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and MIT.
As you know, the work permit was given to the foreigner working with you for one year and the extension time is approaching, yes, work permits are given for one year in the first application, but the extension can be made for two years. Previously extended work permits for two years are extended for 3 years.
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