Ankara Agreement (Turkish Businessperson Visa) is a treaty providing special opportunity to live and do business in the United Kingdom for citizens of the Republic of Turkey.
The Treaty of Ankara Agreement was signed in 1963 between the European Union and the United Kingdom. Other countries included in the agreement were outside the scope of the agreement because they were members of the European Union. ECAA is based on Immigration Act 1971. The rights and responsibilities for Turkish citizens set out from the Act.
Turkish citizens able to obtain Settlement and British passport within 6 years of lawfully staying on this visa in the United Kingdom through Turkish Businessperson Visa.
This visa is one of the most appropriate and less complex in regards of compliance and other requirements for Turkish citizens who would like to relocate to the UK and start their own business.
Our clients who already obtain Turkish Businessperson Visa with us running businesses in following industries:
Applicant’s spouse and children under 21 years of age will have the right to settle in England, however rules stay that they must live 6 years in total from the time they entered the UK on dependant visa.
Applicant can bring wife and children under 21 years old to the UK on join application. They can work and/or run other businesses without any exemptions.
Initial ECAA 2 visa is granted for 12 months. Once the visa is granted, applicant can enter into the UK or continue to live in the UK, if switching from another visa category. It is a general requirement that Turkish Businessperson visa holders and their dependents should live in the UK for at least 6 months.
Turkish business people have option to operate the business activities as a sole trader or under a limited company. Applicants should start to set up and run the business as soon as they have their National Insurance Number and the relevant rights to work in the UK. In the first year they are expected to make enough profit to maintain themselves and the dependents and pay the tax liabilities as required. The success of an extension application is based on whether the applicant was able to establish a credible business in the UK in the past 12 months and whether this has generated enough income to cover the applicant’s costs of living in the UK and operating the business.
The extension visa is normally granted for 3 years, where success of the business is clear, and the company has been able to show healthy profits. Where the credibility of the business is yet to be proven, the applicant is likely to receive an extension for only 12 months, providing the Home office with a chance to check up on the progress of the applicant’s business again in a year’s time.
After the completion of 4 years of successful self-employment in the UK applicants were able to apply to Indefinite Leave to Remain, however this has been extended to 5 years following the Aydogdu case heard in March 2018. This means that at present the successful applicants will need to make at least 3 applications from the point of relocating to the UK until securing Indefinite Leave to Remain in the UK. The applicants wishing to secure settlement in the UK as Turkish Business Persons are now also required to pass the relevant English Language and Life in the UK Test to be successful.
Once applicants are granted the settlement, they are free to take any type of employment in the UK and will no longer need to make any further applications to continue residing in the UK.
Indefinite leave to remain holders can apply for naturalisation one year after the grant of settlement and become British Citizens. The requirements for citizenship are as follows:
Our aim with this session is to make your case optimally strong, show all your strong points as a professional and future business owner.
We will send you our Customer Care Letter (CCL) which states all legal information about how we work as an Immigration Law Firm.
You will receive our automated email with invoice attached. Payment of 50% of the invoice value needs to be done before we start your application process. Remaining 50% needs to be paid 3 days before submission of your case to Home Office.
We will send you a ’tailored’ list of documents which you need to provide for your application, Our solicitor will consult you and fully assist on arranging all documents, prepare case strategy and fully comply with UK immigration law for your application form, then prepare professional and detailed Representation letter to support your case in Home Office.
Submitting from TURKEY
Our adviser will submit all necessary forms online and arrange an appointment date for YOU to attend UK Visa Centre in your city to bring all original documents.
Your Passport can be taken back at the time of your application in British Visa Centre, if you would like to do so, by giving the consulate an of extra fee £ 60.
Submitting from the UK Our adviser will collect all documents from you and we will keep it in our London office, submit all necessary forms online and then book an appointment for you to be attended for scanning documents.
In general, after 2-4 weeks our office receives a letter on your name to provide finger prints in the nearest post office. We will provide original of this letter to you to attend it within the allocated time period.
The Home Office will announce the result of your application via email to you after 2-3 months of attending visa appointment by you, but in some cases this period can be longer.
Once you get positive decision via email, you are required to attend British Visa Centre and collect all documents.
The Home Office will send your documents and the result of your application to our office after 4-5 months of submitting your application via post, but in some cases this period can be longer.
Once you hear positive decision from us, you are required to attend our office and collect all documents and new visa or we can send all documents to you by post within the UK.
Our Immigration adviser will guide you with next steps in regard to immigration law and compliance with Turkish Businessperson Visa.
Our partners will guide you with next steps to be undertaken prior to starting business in the UK:
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