The e-visa Turkey is the replacement for the old visa for Turkey. The previous visa could be bought at the airport. Today, you need to have applied for you visa online before leaving for Turkey. An e-visa is not a document, stamp or sticker. An e-visa is an alternative visa in digital form. You receive this visa automatically by email after filling in the required information. Afterwards, you can print this visa or show it on your tablet or smartphone to the immigration service, in case they ask you to do so.

No, it is no longer possible to buy a visa at the airport. If you wish to travel to Turkey, you need to have applied for a visa beforehand.

The e-visa Turkey needs to be applied for beforehand. In the past, it was possible to buy a Turkey visa at the airport (departure or arrival). This led to immense lines at the airport. With the introduction of the e-visa Turkey, this is no longer the case. Upon arrival at the airport, you can simply enter the country. An added bonus is that you can safely pay through your own bank with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or PayPal.

Online applications for the Turkey visa are processed on average within 3 days. Are you in a rush? Submit an urgent application. Urgent applications are granted within 45 minutes 98% of the time. This applies 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, including holidays.

You will receive the visa by email. Not right away as an attachment, but through a link. When the application has been approved by the Turkish immigration service, you will receive an email with the confirmation of the approval. Within this email is a link to the status page on e-Visa.co.uk. There, you can download the visa. It is important that you print this visa so that you can show it to the Turkish immigration service if you are asked to do so. Don’t have access to a printer? You can also display the visa on the screen of your phone, tablet or laptop. There is a chance you will not be asked to show the visa at all, as the validity of the visa is checked through your passport number.

Right after you have completed the payment for your visa application,you will receive a confirmation by e-mail. This e-mail contains a link to your personal status page on e-Visa.co.uk. Here you check what the status of your (group) application is.

Was your visa not issued within the expected term? The status page will tell you when you should contact us about this, and how to do it.

The immigration service processes all applications individually. So not per group, but per person. even if you filled in multiple travellers in a single application form. Occasionally, there can be quite a bit of difference between the moments of approval between the various visas from a single group application. This can be the case if one or several people are subjected to a manual extended background check. If an application for a traveller takes more time than those of the other travellers in the group, this does not mean that the visa application for this traveller has a higher chance of being rejected.

Didn’t receive this email? First check the folder ‘unwanted emails’ in your email inbox, also known as the ‘spam’ or ‘junk’ folder. Can’t find an email from a sender titled support@e-visa.co.uk? Try looking up the status of your application online.

This doesn’t work either? Send an email to support@e-visa.co.uk containing your order number. The order number can be found in the transcript of your payment.

To apply for the visa, you need to fill in the online application form. Afterwards you will be redirected to the payment page, where you can safely and easily pay with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, or PayPal.

To apply for the visa, you need to fill out the visa application form. It is important you have your passport (which needs to be valid for a minimum of 150 days starting from the first day you arrive in Turkey) or ID card (which has to be valid for at least the entirety of your stay in Turkey) at hand. After filling in the required information you will be redirected to the payment page, where you can safely and easily pay with Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and PayPal.

Certainly. Urgent applications are processed with priority, which takes an average of 45 minutes. In exceptional cases it can take a bit longer, but 98% of all urgent applications are granted within a 45 minutes.

Applying for an urgent Turkey visa works the same as a regular application. To do this, you can fill out the regular application form. In this form you check the box that says ‘urgent’. An additional fee of £17.50 will be charged. Right after making the payment the urgent application will be processed.

Apply for the visa at least 48 hours before departure if possible. Even though the Turkey visa is granted within 14 minutes with an urgent application, it is always a possibility that there will be a randomized extended background check by the Turkish immigration service, which can cause a delay.

Tip: The Turkish immigration service processes applications up to 3 months before the indicated date of arrival. However, through this website you can submit your application earlier. It will be put on hold after the payment has been made. Exactly three months before your date of arrival in Turkey, your application will start to be processed, so that you will have your e-visa well before time, without running the risk of forgetting the application. That way, you can go on your trip without a single worry.

Since February 20th of 2022, travellers with a European passport or ID-card no longer need a visa to travel to Turkey. Since then, the information on this website about the visa for Turkey has not been updated.

In the past, you could buy the visa at the airport. Nowadays, you need to apply for your e-visa online before departure to travel to Turkey.
Read more about whether you need a visa for Turkey.

Yes, you can also submit an application for someone else. You are required to have the passport information of this person at hand. You can submit the application through the application form on this website, even if you are not part of this (group) application yourself.

Sometimes, it can be difficult to make out whether the number 0 or the letter O is listed in a document. A British passport number only contains digits. This means that the letter O cannot appear in a British passport number. It is always the number 0.

Are you applying for a visa through e-Visa.co.uk? Then a check will always be made to ensure that you have not swapped the letter O and the number 0, especially if your document number has both letters and digits. If this error is noticed, it will always be corrected for you immediately. This way you can still travel without problems.

Did you apply for a visa through another website? In most cases, this error will not be corrected, and your visa may be invalid. It is not possible to change a wrong passport number, you will have to apply for a completely new visa.

Yes. Even if your child is registered in your passport or that of another parent, you still need to apply for a seperate e-visa for your child. With a single application form you can apply for multiple e-visas. For your child, you are required to use the passport information of the parent of the child who has him/her in their passport.

You can submit a visa application for a maximum of 10 people at once.

Yes. An e-visa is always tied to a passport (or, in some cases, an ID card). If you receive a new passport or identity card (ID card), and you applied for your e-visa with your old identification document, the e-visa is no longer valid. You are required to apply for a new visa with the new identification document (passport or ID card). Read more about when the validity of the Turkey visa can expire.

For the Turkey visa, you need a valid passport (or, in some cases, an ID card). If you have a Turkish passport, you do not need to apply for a visa. Don’t have either of these documents, but you do have a residence permit (for example, as an acknowledged asylum seeker)? Then you cannot file for a visa on this website. You will have to file for your visa through visa.gov.tr.

When you submit an application through this website, it will always utilize Secure Socket Layer (SSL). With Secure Socket Layer we safeguard the communication of the data from your computer to our server. In this way, your information will always be protected.

We only ask for your information with the purpose of using it for your visa application. Furthermore, we respect the privacy of all of the users of our site and take great care that the information you provide us during your application is treated with confidentiality. It is important to know that your information will not be sold or used for any commercial ends. We also offer safe payment methods with which you can pay through your own bank, such as Visa, Mastercard, American Express or PayPal.

The visa for Turkey is valid for 180 days. The validity period starts on the date of arrival, as filled in on the application form. During the validity period of 180 days you can stay in Turkey for a maximum of 90 days (consecutive or split up over multiple trips). Make sure that your passport is valid for at least 150 days each time you arrive in Turkey.
Read more about the validity of the Turkey visa or when the Turkey visa can expire.

Yes, that is possible. During the validity period of 180 days you can use this e-visa to travel to Turkey as often as you like. There are two important requirements: you cannot stay in Turkey for a total of more than 90 days, and your passport has to be valid for at least 150 days each time you arrive in Turkey.

You can stay a maximum of 90 days in Turkey, consecutive or split up over multiple trips, for each visa you apply for.

Do you wish to stay in Turkey for longer than 90 days? Apply for a sticker-visa by making an appointment at the Turkish consulate, or extend your visa at the local police in Turkey.

You are allowed to travel into Turkey after the indicated date of arrival, as long as this falls within the 180 validity period of your visa, and your identification document is still valid (a passport has to be valid for at least 150 days starting from the date of arrival in Turkey). You are not allowed to arrive earlier, as your visa will not be valid and you will be denied entry.

An important requirement for this visa is that you are not allowed to enter into employment with a Turkish organisation while in Turkey. Working in Turkey is only allowed if it is done in service to another company not located in Turkey. Making a business trip to Turkey related to your work in your home country is allowed with the online visa.

The Turkey visa cost is £54.95. All prices on e-Visa.co.uk listed are in pounds. Urgent application are provided with an extra fee of £17.50 per traveller. Travellers with American nationality pay a surcharge of £20.00 per person.

In case the visa is rejected, you will be reimbursed for the entire purchase cost within 10 days. You will make no costs whatsoever in that scenario.

As long as the airline has flights to Turkey, you can use the online visa to travel to Turkey. You are free to choose your flight and airline.

Unfortunately, this is not possible under any circumstances. Even a small mistake in the passport number or the starting date of the visa cannot be changed after the application is completed. When the payment has been made, your application is processed immediately.

In case the visa contains faulty information, the person in question has to apply for an entirely new visa. It is your own responsibility to make sure that all the information on the application form is filled in correctly. Be sure to double-check your information after it has been filled in. Unsure whether you correctly filled in the application? Have a second person check the information before confirming your application. This way you can be sure that all the data is correct, and you can go on your trip without a worry.

No. After you have submitted the application, it cannot be cancelled under any circumstances. As soon as the payment has been made, the application procedure begins. From that moment on, it is no longer possible to change or cancel the application. The purchase cost cannot be refunded either.

In exceptional cases, the Turkish immigration service might reject a visa application. However, this does not mean that it becomes impossible to travel to Turkey. In these cases, you can contact the Turkish embassy or the Turkish consulate, to still apply for a visa. This can take time; be sure to start this procedure as soon as the online visa has been rejected.

Should your visa application be rejected, you will automatically be reimbursed the entire cost within 10 working days.

Yes. Should your visa application be denied, for whatever reason, you will automatically be reimbursed the entire cost within 10 working days.

If your visa has been approved you cannot, under any circumstance, receive a refund. Not even if you don’t make use of the visa. Only if your application is rejected will you be reimbursed for the entire purchase cost (within 10 work days).

We only use your data for the purpose of acquiring a visa for Turkey. Furthermore, we respect the privacy of all of the users of our site and take great care to make sure that any personal information which you provide us during your application is handled with confidentiality. It is important to know that your data will not be sold or otherwise used for any commercial purposes.

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