Turkey eVisa question

[affinite]

Can someone explain the 180 day part of the new Turkish evisa rules to me?
Specifically how soon you can return after expiry of the 180 days

I'm planning to spend about a month in Turkey next year (May). I'm then going to leave the country (with the boat) but possibly return later in the year (Nov) after the expiry of the 180 period. Will that be a problem ?

I would check the official Turkish evisa site but its down and seems to have been down for some weeks ?
https://www.evisa.gov.tr/

 

[Monique]

http://www.jimbsail.info//

Look above and try the Turk website again; it worked for me.

 

[affinite]

Thanks
Jims site very clear - I just apply for a new visa 180 days after the first one has been applied for.

Very strange the visa site doesnt work for me on Google Chrome but does with MS I.Explorer.
Big brother at it again ?

 

[akyaka]

There are two aspects to staying in Turkey without a Residents Permit; they are not directly linked. These are the E visa, which defines the days in a 180 day period between which you can enter and leave the country and the 90 in 180 rule which is number of days( 90 if from UK) you can stay in any 180 day period counted backwards from your date of departure. The rules are exactly the same as those in Schengen countries for none EU visitors.

In your case it is likely that your E visa which lasts 180 days will have run out by November so you will have to get a new one. Don't bother making your trip fit the end date if you are close just get another E visa which overlaps and enter on that. Its extremely unlikely that you will breach the 90 in 180 day rule with what you are proposing. To check count back 180 days from your intended leaving date after entering in November and if it overlaps your May visit take those days off 90 and thats the maximum days you have available. There a lots of calculators been set up to help ease the pain of the arithmetic this is one http://www.akbukturkey.com/tourist_visas.html

The official E visa site is specifically related to E visas and can be misleading in relation to the 90 in 180 days counted backward rule as it only relates to the 180 day period of an E visa whereas the mor important 90/180 day rule can overlap E visas

 

[dougg]

E visa

You can have 6 months in Turkey, ie 180 days.
Start your 180 day e visa 3 months before you enter Turkey.
Get a new 180 day e visa to start the same day as the old one runs out and use the first 90 days of it.

 

[akyaka]

You can have 6 months in Turkey, ie 180 days.
Start your 180 day e visa 3 months before you enter Turkey.
Get a new 180 day e visa to start the same day as the old one runs out and use the first 90 days of it.

This is incorrect.If you do that you will find yourself fined and banned from re-entering Turkey for a period as it breaches the separate 90 in 180 days counted backwards from when you leave rule. Also to activate your second E visa you have to leave and re-enter Turkey and even if you did if you had spent the last 90 days of the previous E visa in Turkey be refused entry on the new one as you would be breaching the 90 in last 180 day rule. If you want to spend a continuous 6 months you need to enter under your initial E visa and get a 3 -6 months short term Residents Permit.

 

[affinite]

Yep I did know about the 90 days in 180 bit.
I was unclear as to what, if any, time had to pass after the expiry of the first 180 days before you could apply for another 180 day visa

 

[akyaka]

As I said you can apply before the previous one expires if your trip starts before the old one ends and continues beyond, you just have to make sure that you use the new one one when you enter otherwise it will not be activated. If unsure raise a query through the Contact dropdown on the official E visa site . Other people have done and received a similar reply.

 

[Borden]

Forget any linkage between visas and the length of stay. The visa merely gives you the right to be in the country during the currency of the visa. The simple way to calculate your allowance of 90 days in any 180 day period is as follows: write down the date of your latest return flight out of Turkey. If you haven't booked it yet then write down the date you would like to fly out. Now from that date calculate 180 days back and write down that date. Finally count up the number of days you've spent in Turkey between these two dates. If the answer is more than 90 move the date of your return flight back until the answer is 90.
For example I flew out to Turkey on April 27 2014 and left on June 12 2014. A total of 47 days. Simple maths tells me that I had 43 says of my allowance left within the time window ending on October 24 which is exactly 180 days from April 27.
I intended to fly back to Turkey on September 2nd which meant that I had to fly out of Turkey 43 days later on October 14. Total 90 days.

 

[akyaka]

Forget any linkage between visas and the length of stay. The visa merely gives you the right to be in the country during the currency of the visa. The simple way to calculate your allowance of 90 days in any 180 day period is as follows: write down the date of your latest return flight out of Turkey. If you haven't booked it yet then write down the date you would like to fly out. Now from that date calculate 180 days back and write down that date. Finally count up the number of days you've spent in Turkey between these two dates. If the answer is more than 90 move the date of your return flight back until the answer is 90.
For example I flew out to Turkey on April 27 2014 and left on June 12 2014. A total of 47 days. Simple maths tells me that I had 43 says of my allowance left within the time window ending on October 24 which is exactly 180 days from April 27.
I intended to fly back to Turkey on September 2nd which meant that I had to fly out of Turkey 43 days later on October 14. Total 90 days.

As another example if you had got an overlapping E visa and delayed your return to Turkey until 12 September you would have been able to stay for up to 90 days as on the 25 October you would start losing days stayed earlier in the year from your 90 in 180 days allocation.