You can make your application together with your family. You invest, and your wife and children acquire the right to apply. Furthermore, your family can also benefit from your investment. It is a really important opportunity to include your wife and minor children in the scope of your application.
You should know that when you acquire Turkish citizenship, it shall not directly affect the citizenship of your wife or child.
- If your wife does not make her application together with you, she shall fail to benefit from the fast-track opportunity.
- Your children, whose transactions are not conducted together with you on the date you acquire the Turkish citizenship, shall not benefit from the opportunity of Fast-Track Application if they apply to acquire Turkish citizenship after the age of 18.
In such cases, transactions can be made in accordance with the general provisions and when the clause of residence for at least 5 years is fulfilled.
Opportunity for Children
It is essential that the children who apply to acquire Turkish citizenship are treated together with their mother or father.
- Minor children of the parents who acquire Turkish citizenship together may acquire Turkish citizenship depending on the parents.
- In the event that one of the parents acquires Turkish citizenship within the union of marriage, the child may acquire Turkish citizenship depending on the mother or father if the parent who is not a Turkish citizen consents.
- The child, whose custody belongs to the parent who has acquired the Turkish citizenship on the date when s/he has acquired the citizenship, acquires the Turkish citizenship depending on the mother or father if the parent who is not a Turkish citizen consents.
- The child, of the mother who has acquired Turkish citizenship, born outside the union of marriage acquires Turkish citizenship depending on the mother.