Humanitarian residence permit documents

This permit is granted at the authority’s discretion in exceptional circumstances. There is no fixed public checklist, and we will not invent one.

⚠ What this page does not do

We do not describe who qualifies. Eligibility is a legal question decided by the authority on the facts of each case, and getting it wrong in either direction causes real harm.

If you are considering this route, speak to the authority and to a lawyer. What follows is only the documentary mechanics, which are the same as in any other file.

Certification of foreign documents

Where a foreign document can be obtained, the ordinary route applies: apostille in the issuing country, then sworn Turkish translation, then notarial certification.

Türkiye cannot apostille a foreign document under any circumstances, including this one.

When an apostille cannot be obtained

In some situations the issuing country cannot or will not provide certification — records are unavailable, the authority is unreachable, or contact with it is not possible.

This is not something a translation office can resolve. What we can do is translate what exists and describe the document accurately, including any gaps. What the authority accepts in place of missing certification is its decision, and it is made case by case.

⚠ Sensitive documents

Files of this kind often contain medical reports and records relating to legal proceedings. Under Turkish data protection law these are special category personal data.

They are handled with restricted access, short retention and confidentiality undertakings, and they are never uploaded to free machine translation or artificial intelligence services. Send only the pages actually requested.

What we do not promise

We do not predict outcomes and we do not describe any application as likely to succeed. Translation makes your documents readable and properly certified; the decision belongs to the authority.

Translating an incomplete document

Documents in these files are often damaged, partly illegible or missing pages. A translation records what the document actually shows; where a passage cannot be read, that is stated rather than guessed.

This occasionally disappoints people who hope a translation can tidy a document up. It cannot, and a translation that filled in gaps would be worse than useless in front of an authority.

If you hold documents in a language written in another script, the transliteration of names is decided by your passport spelling, so send the passport page along with them.

Where this fits

How sensitive documents are handled is described on special category data. Where a country is not party to the Hague Convention, see consular legalisation.