so...

since my american family isn´t impressed with my overseas adventure in turkey, i thought i´d share with you all that my husband and i finally completed the paperworks necessary for citizen application!

woo hoo!

so, i guess now we wait for the interview period...it could take up to 6 months.  my residency runs out in 5 months.......so we´re crossing our fingers and folding our hands...

has anyone done this before?  (become a dual citizen in turkey)

if so, could you PM me= i´d love to chat.  i have no idea what the cost is, or what they will require for interview questions, etc.  but i am trying to practice my turkish in small=town turkey and with little success from anyone.  oddly enough, i can understand bits and parts of many conversations and television shows but still can´t hold a conversation, so i´m worried about passing the interview. 

at this point my 2 year old is teaching me more turkish than my spouse so although we´ve been together for 5 years, his teaching skills are NON existant when it comes to TSL!

thanks in advance!

Scrabblemin, i hope you will become the turkish citizenship as soon as possible !

I wish you luck with it !

I don´t have experience with this so i can´t provide you with more information.

Where are you living in Turkey ?

I am going to apply for citizenship in July, hopefully the procedure will go a little bit fast, cause I have also heard sometimes its taking a year !

How many children do you have ?

I have 1 daughter, she is 14 months old.

 Wishful thinking!!! My application took over 3 years to process

 How many years ago did you apply ?

sorry for the slow response back

um, i just applied a few weeks ago

i live in a rather small city so i´m hoping it will be faster than going through ankara, where i was "hired" for a job at the university and i´ve been waiting more than 10 months now, and since the paperwork didn´t get finished before december 31, i have to start it ALL OVER AGAIN.  so, i am looking at least another year before i start officially working.

hoping to get citizenship before then so i can "work" legally...

i have a 3 year old daughter.

God, 3 years.  were there mistakes in your paperwork?

Wow, that all sounds like a very very slow process. Will your job still be there when the paperwork is ready, or is that job gone already?

It´s a bit slow true. For my mum, it took more than 1 year (I think nearly two years) even after 30 years of living in Turkey, but I don´t know if the length of the process is directly linked to the length of your stay in Turkey. They check everything. You have to memorize the first two quatrains of the Turkish National Anthem. They ask you some simple questions to see if you speak turkish a bit. They make an unexpected visit to your home to see if you are really settled down and have a serious life in Turkey. It´s good that you have a child. It´s a good proof that your mariage is for real.

Good luck.

Mltm, I thought you were Turkish, is your mother from another country and now trying to get Turkish citizenship?

i´ve already had 2 police=visits to see if i´m legit or not  first one wa at 7AM on a monday morning!

also, i just applied about 2weeks ago and MY INTERVIEW IS THIS FRIDAY!

AAAAAGH!  here i am thinking i have a few months and now...BOOM!

well if its meant to be its meant to be...

as far as the university job i think i have to start the entire procedure over again.  they simply don´t know what they´re doing hiring "foreigners" but now if i´m a citizen within the next week i wonder how this changes everything in the second round of paperworks....agh, seems like nobody knows what they´re doing.  even t he "translator" for my documents made a ton of mistakes and my TOEFL genius husband had to fix everything while the guy had th guts to call up my hub twice yelling at him becase he has no clue what he´s talking about....the guy didn´t even get my birthday correct an it was the year that was wrong, i can´t even believe it.   there were at least 5 mistake all together....argh  so ts no wonder why other peoples´ things get botched up so easily...

everyone just says "welcome to turkey" but i dont want to hear this.

I´m turkish, but my mother has french origin. She has just got the turkish citizenship.