How to get Turkish citizenship based on marriage 🇹🇷

If you marry a Turkish citizen, then very pleasant bonuses from the state await you. After watching this video, you will find out under what conditions it is possible to obtain Turkish citizenship.

🇹🇷 In order to obtain Turkish citizenship based on marriage, it is important to fulfill several requirements.

1. The most important condition is that you must be married to a citizen of the country for at least three years.
2. Only the “true” marriage is valid. Spouses are obliged to live together and comply with all the norms of a real family.
3. A person applying for citizenship must not engage in illegal activities or activities that pose a danger to the state or the public.
4. Spouses are obliged to live together, but not necessarily in the territory of the Republic of Turkey. They can live in the same housing and in any other country.

A woman is entitled to citizenship even if her husband has died, if before his death their marriage lasted more than three years.

If, after obtaining Turkish citizenship, the marriage is unexpectedly terminated, then the Turkish passport will be canceled only if this marriage is recognized as fake. In other situations, citizenship will remain with a person forever.

However, the procedure for obtaining citizenship is not very fast. Usually this process takes from 1 to 3 years.

🇹🇷 Before granting citizenship to a person, there are several phased procedures:

1. First, the application and the submitted documents are transferred to the security service, where all information about the person is checked.
2. Next, there is a personal visit of employees to the place of joint residence of the spouses, where a small survey takes place (not only spouses, but also neighbors or a concierge).
3. After that, each spouse (separately from the other) is required to undergo an interview to determine whether the marriage is real or fictitious. Here they ask a number of everyday questions, to which the spouses must answer the same way.
4. The final stage is the appearance at the ministry to put your signature and pick up the passport of a Turkish citizen.