its my first to travel... so i dont know what to do.. turkey is very far from philippines.. i dont know what kind of visa should i get it is tourist visa or visit visa and what is the diff. of that two visa? if i get visit visa shoul i get an invitation letter came from my boyfriend proff that he invited my to his country,...

You could write a letter to Turkey embassy in your country and ask for details. But as far as I know you can get tourist visa in airport. You can stay in country for 1 month (30 days) with this visa and it costs 15 euro.

Check the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs website, there you will see if Philippines nationals need visa to enter Turkey, and what type of visa should you get in case it is necessary to have one.

The airport visa is available only to certain countries like the USA or many EU nations, others don´t even need a tourist visa like us Venezuelans or some other Latin American countries.

You can go to Turkish Embassy in the Philippines and secure application form and therein, you will find out the requirements in applying for a visa which include the letter of invitation from Turkey.  You must have a visa prior to leaving the Philippines.  Or, you can contact a travel agency to process your visa.

Good Luck

hi garie. hope you won´t mind if i ask you to give me an update on your visa application. i´m planning to visit Turkey too but haven´t decided on the specific date yet. i would appreciate it very much if you could give me any info on the whole process of acquiring a visa and the documentary requirements. thanks very much.

I got my visa at the airport. All I needed to show is my passport and pay whatever the fee was (I think it was $30 or $40 from the USA). They put a little sticker in your passport and you´re all set. Nothing to it.

thanks to all... i ask want to ask if turkey is open country.. and if i stay there even if i am only tourist can i go work there?

 ok i will!! dont worry..are u a filipina too? just wanna know?

You can´t work when you´re a tourist in any country (at least I haven´t heard of any that allow that). Here´s some more info about working in Turkey: http://www.turkishclass.com/forumTitle_22081

 yes, garie. i am a filipina too.

 Here is a link to this information:  http://turkey.visahq.com/requirements/Philippines/

 OMG are you planning to visit boris bonanzi?

 sorry to break in ..Aenigma you didn´t do your homeworkboris bonanzi can´t be Turkish..he is warning against Turks.He must come from rice plentiful and no sex wanted..only romantic hand holding land!

 Thank you for correcting me.... he sounds wonderful btw ....

 He does...I am still choking out of laughter

 Ben de

 tekrar?

 Isn´t that a yoga move?

 Ouch yes :S

It hurts

 no.. his not turkish guy and his not living in turkey... i go to turkey to visit my boyfriend...

hii garie, I read ur question about getting visa. I just finished doing that in PH and I want to share my personal experienced to you. First you have to call Turkish Embassy in Philippines then ask them what papers you will need. You told in this forum that you still didnt travel anywhere so I think better ask them.

TURKEY EMBASSY PHILIPPINES

2268 PARAISO ST., DASMARINAS VILLAGE

MAKATI CITY PHILIPPINES

843-9705

843-9707

Call them start at 3pm.

they dont entertain calls on other time.

hi again, you will get tourist visa as I did. You have to prepare passport pic 2 pcs, bank certificate,bank books if you have business bring business permits xerox copy and bring originals and the best way is invitation letter because its your first time to travel. You cant work there as a tourist. That will be a different visa it will be working visa and i will tell you they will need lots of papers and you will wait so long time.

For working visa you will need red ribbon certificate -certificate of school you finished from philippines and in ANKARA.

Approva

Invitation letter of the company who invites you.

Hi garie

I visited turkey in December and I only got a visa upon arrival at the Istanbul Airport.

It costs US$15 or EUR 10 and it´s valid for one month. As far as I remember this applies to

most countries...

 thank you so much for this info. i really appreciate it. salamat ha!!! sometimes taliking english "nakaka nosebleed" tesekkurler.. its will help a lot.. and one thing why do i need bank certificate? what if i dont have any bank papers.

hi garie, bank certificate is one of the requirements unless you have a host from turkey that invites you to go there and shoulder your airfare trip and means of stay there.

If you will see their application form at the back page they have a question there asking who will pay for your stay and the return airfare ticket to where country you belong.You know, I was shocked too!!! I went to many countries already requiring visa, but its my first time to see a question like that in a application form When you will have the VISA application form you will see it anyway.In short they dont want TNT there. Also you told in the forum that its your first time to travel so better bring all the requirements. Sorry for the last message i shared with you coz its not complete i didnt have time to finish.

Also you ask if you can work there as a tourist, nope. You need to get a working VISA.

Best way , ask for a help... a letter of invitation is best.

ok thanks!! you said its takes to long.. supposedly how many days it will takes, coz this april 1 my bf going here again in philippines then we are the one to process it he stay only for 10 days do you  think it will process for 10 days he want me and i go together in turkey coz i told him i am really scared to ride to airplane hehehe you its my first time... so i feel not comfortable to go to other country without someone beside me.. maybe im so crazy...

Turkey Embassy , Philippines
2268 Paraiso Street Dasmarinas Village
Makati City
Metro Manila
1222
Philippines
Phone:
+63-2 843-9705
+63-2 843-9707
Fax:
+63-2 843-9702
Email:
turkembmnla@zpdec.net

Turkey Consulate , Philippines
B. Benedicto & Son Co., Inc. 99-101 Plaridel Street
Cebu City
Cebu
Philippines
Phone:
+63-32 254-7025
+63-32 255-0941
Fax:
+63-32 255-0113

This is the most simple and easiest way to get to know everything you need.

Not to the Phillipines though......I believe it´s as difficult - if not more so - for a Filipino to get a visa for Turkey as it is for a Turk to get a visa for the UK.

it is difficult for Filipino´s to get a visa to Turkey. unless, someone sends them letter of invitation or "davet". The person sending the davet should have sufficient amount of money in the bank, has at least car insurance or some sort of property etc, to show the embassy, to prove that you can support the person going to Turkey. The person also going to Turkey, should show bank statements (at least 40,000 pesos.. which is around 1000 us dollars or more) and a plane ticket, (no direct flights from philippines to turkey) would cost you around 1500 dollars. (gulfair.com it´s the cheapest) and you have to pay 5000 pesos for visa processing, which is about... hmmm 100 us dollars or more, without any assurance of getting approved. If you get denied, you cannot get back the money you spent to process visa, and you have to wait for about a few months or a year, before you can apply again.

oh and by the way.... you would be spending around 1500-2000 us dollars, just to get a tourist visa to Turkey. But if you would be applying for work to Turkey, in order to get a work visa, the company that would hire you, will take care of everything. Visa, etc. And just to let you know, it is hard to find a job in Turkey, and find a company or agency that would take care of your visa. Trust me, i tried.

A little piece of advice. Don´t go to Turkey, unless he will pay for everything. And make sure you REALLY know your boyfriend. I thought i have known my ex for 2 years, but apparently i didn´t.

ok i will... he pay for everything thats why he would came here to know everything i need to go to der country.. its cozt so expensive... i wonder why its really hard for filipino to go to other country...  and thank for the advise!

it´s hard really, coz a lot of filipinos take advantage using tourist visas and then stay at the country they are going to work there in hiding. you know the term "tago ng tago"? There are many filipinos in US, UK, etc, who use tourist visa, and never come back to the Philippines. These kind of people give all Filipinos a bad reputation, no wonder visas (even tourist visas) are so expensive.

oo nga no!!! kainis... hehehehe!!!! i dont want to blame them maybe coz philippines is a poor country thats why even if they are in danger they will just to earn money to send to their family. so have you been in turkey? and one more question if ever i am now in turkey can i extend my vacation there? thinking in advance

nope haven´t been in Turkey. but i know some details, coz i enquired a lot before i decided to apply. (actually i didn´t apply anymore)  I think if you´re in Turkey, and you want to extend your vacation, you have to go to Philippine Embassy in Turkey, I think it is in Istanbul or Ankara. I´m not sure though, if it´s easy to get approved.

Oh i forgot to mention. You are spending 2000 US dollars  for tourist visa, which is only 2 WEEKS. (pocket money not included. Turkish embassy requires you to at least have 150 dollars a day for ur stay in Turkey. 150 US dollars times 12 days... do the math... )  Other countries can get a tourist visa for 1 month -3 months.

And i notice that you make a lot of e-t translations too. Hmmm if he doesn´t know any english, you better start learning Turkish. Or at least you better start teaching him to speak english. That´s what i did. I taught my ex bf english. I didn´t know i would regret it 2 years later.... lol...

hehehe.. i try to learn turkish language but sometimes i cant maybe bcoz i am still learning to speak english.. but sometimes i can communicate with him without talking english coz he hated me if he did not understand what i am saying... and now he come again, so i watch turkey film coz i want to know the pronounciation of every world. like Çok i thought it sounds like this "kok" so i said that word then i said im like chicken "kok kok"  but when he pronounce it its "chalk" so i want to learn more.

by the way garie, just want to inform you i just paid 1,500 pesos only for my tourist visa. So I´m wondering why i saw someone tells you  1000 us dollar++?

I just went there last year 2007.

sorry 2008 i mean. They gave me 1 month to stay. Just the working visa is the hardest to get coz they will require you lots of papers.

thanks... you least my worries coz i thought getting visa is not easy i was so confuse, i inquire actually to the no. that you give me they say i just need to pass the passport my pic and letter of invitation came from my bf. then money. the bank statement is not needed to me all they need is a financial staement of my bf so that they know if my bf will carry me there.. thanks for all the info. i just wait my bf to come here so that i can start all the processing of getting visa. ooopsss maybe the 1500 us dollars is the fair or the planeticket. coz that the personnel said to me then he said stop over to dubai then after dubai ride to turkey..

by the way hows turkey can you tell me what could i expect when i get there... im really scared to go other country and what should be the right manners should i do when my bf is introducing to his family?

 Your much welcome! Oh yes. that was so good to hear!! I told about bank statement coz i shoulder my 2 way airfare ticket by myself so they asked bank statement to me.

hi garie, lets go to chatroom. Im not bz today.. So you can ask all you want!!! im willing to answer all!

how much exactly you pay to your airfare ticket...

lets go to turkish chat garie! its better

exactly.... i´m not talking only about the visa, i was talking about the over-all expense in going to Turkey. It was easier last year to go to Turkey, but now they have changed the... hmmmm sort of President or something? because of some anomalies involved. Some people resigned, some people got fired... etc.  They have become more strict regarding approval on Turkish Tourist visa. I wouldn´t know if i didn´t inquire and try as well.( I also have friends working there. )  So I´m pretty sure of what I´m talking about. Or when in doubt, you could always still inquire the embassy themselves. (But i doubt they will give you all the information that you would really need to hear.)

excuse! ms. know-all... i just read all the msgs in this forum and i think you dont know what you are posting.. or you are a liar?  you are lucky the lady cecille is so educated that she just ignore your post msgs... whats this? can you read it?  i even saw your chats awhile ago and it seems that you are insisting as if you know everything, anyway have you been in turkey?  you said that you know a worker in embassy, so what happen there? im not here to argue with you, i was to correct with your inconsistent post regarding the payment for tourist visa fee you are telling. clearly you are saying here in your post that the tourist visa fee cost around 1500-2000 usd for visa tourist fee only??? did you compute that?? almost 100,000 pesos just for tourist visa fee??? i googled how much 1 dollar to peso..oh my god you should be careful with what you are posting. many can read it and the lady garie is asking for help not for a discouragement.

 Instead of calling Justintime a liar, please post the information you have about tourist visa from Phillipines, if you know better.

I think the young lady who started the thread now has enough information to make her decision whether she should visit Turkey or not.

And you are Filipino are you kookie?

kookie... apparently you haven´t been reading carefully. I said OVER-ALL EXPENSE, INCLUDING PLANE TICKET AND POCKET MONEY. (i thought you read all my posts and chats?) you might want to read all over again, Turkish visa goes about 2000 pesos to 5000 pesos. And i said that plane ticket costs 1,500-2,000 US dollars. it even depends what season you go to Turkey. Obviously winter is cheaper, and summers are more expensive.

And if you have read ALL my chats, you would have noticed that i also adviced garie, to go the the embassy herself, if she really wants detailed information about visas, because obviously she would be getting different opinions from different people here. Im not here to debate about me being right, or being wrong as well, I´m giving information on what I know. If you think I´m wrong, then correct me. But apparently name-calling seems to be your thing. (For someone who doesn´t want to argue, your approach was very diplomatic. ) Don´t worry, I won´t stoop down to your level.

and just so everyone knows, 1 US dollar is equivalent to 47 pesos... to date. Might go higher. I know how to do math, thank you very much. And oh... thanks for making an account here in Turkishclass, just so you can respond to my posts. Welcome...

this is the proof on how inconsistent you are!

fyi, embassies have their own requirements who will they allow to enter their country and who are the qualified ones for them to allow and approve application.. whats this?!! oh you really know everything. anomalies? president? who´s president, what??? see? you always discourage the lady garie on many things, even for personal life.

so whats this?

Therefore you misquoted me, I can use your other post as well, saying i only referred the 1,500 dollars for visa. NOT.

Apparantly diplomacy isn´t your thing either. I wasn´t discouraging garie, I was giving caution. She´s a wise woman to know what she would do, and it´s funny that im giving advice to her, and you´re the one getting offended. ....

And on the anomalies that "had" happened on the Turkish embassy here in the Philippines. There were many filipinos who weren´t qualified to get a visa, but still entered Turkey easily. I said "President" of Turkish embassy with questions marks "????" Because i didn´t know what he was called. "Head Director?" I don´t know. You are the one implying i know everything, and that I´m "miss know-all", I didn´t tell garie, i knew everything and ask only me. I gave the information I KNOW. Others can shar their opinions with garie too just like cecille did, and it´s in garie´s choice what opinions to take.

And I´m gonna repeat again, if you don´t understand. I ADVICED GARIE TO GO TO THE EMBASSY HERSELF. To know what she needs. I didn´t say DON´T APPLY FOR VISA. I´m not discouraging her, I´m trying to give her the information i know, so GARIE WOULD KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT AND WHAT TO DO, i didn´t stop her from doing what she wanted.

then YOU ONLY READ 1 POST of all the messages I wrote. ( maybe you need reading glasses?)Try reading post number 29. I said read carefully kookie. If garie read all my posts as well, she would understand what i meant. And i chatted with garie already, and i did tell her that the 1500 was for the plane ticket....

I really don´t see the point talking about this to you, because i wanted to say it to Garie.

Oh and the last part about saying to garie that he should know his bf first is AN ADVICE. I didn´t tell her to stop going out with him. She is old enough to know what she should do.

I´m done talking with you kookie. And Garie if you are reading this, and if you have ever felt discouraged by my posts, then i apologize. I was only trying to look out for your best interest, but if my motives were misunderstood I apologize to YOU. Let´s talk this over via PM.

ooopsss guys stop this i feel sad about what i happen in my post i think its all my fault... by the  way i done already the thing i need to do.. like what i said i inqiure to turkish embassy here in phil. and now i know what i am going to do.. i would like to thank you all for the information and for the concern...  please be peace.. i love you all guys... happy valentines day

thanks garie. I knew you understand what i was saying when i was speaking with you. I just don´t understand why some other people have to make an issue about it, when it was not their problem in the first place. Anyway garie. I hope you can get everything accomplished soon. Good luck..

 THIS IS FORUM. DID GARIE ADDRESS HER QUESTION TO YOU??? DONT I HAVE THE RIGHT TO JOIN TO THIS FORUM??ITS NOT ABOUT YOU, ITS JUST ABOUT THE MISLEADING FACTS YOU HAD POST.  I DONT NEED A GLASS. I KNOW WHAT IM TELLING BASE ON YOUR POST. HOW ABOUT YOU?  AGAIN, IM TALKING ABOUT YOUR overprice tourist visa fee u post. I just have to correct it. So simple and it seems you are not accepting mistakes. You have so many talkings.

Too much talking, make more mistakes.

Please don´t type in capital letters kookie - it is like shouting.  I don´t know quite why you are being aggressive - you have made your point - they can take notice of it - or not - as they wish.  No matter what Garie is told she will find out exactly what is needed when she contacts her embassy about a visa.

 if you dont want other people to intrude on some issues, then make your own forum.

and you don´t seem to notice the fact about your misleading post either. Saying you don´t want an argument, but you called me a liar and ms. know-all. You also don´t want to see that you weren´t being diplomatic in your approach to me. It was obvious in the first sentence of your post.

and again... im saying... READ POST 29. You are the only one saying it´s misleading, but the person concerned already knew what she should do. lol...   i really find this funny. Because garie and i had already talked, and she stated on her post above that she had already done what she needs to do, but you want this issue to still linger... hahaha!!!!

omg.. I´m really done talking, because you´re just going around in circles, and i dont want to be a broken record explaining the same things, which you can´t get inside your head. I alreadyapologized to garie, and that´s the only thing that matters to me. ADIOS. mwuahhh!!!!

... i don´t know why she´s being aggressive either... ... ..... this is getting old... i´m out this thread...

Ohh you know very well what you have told me in my PM. Dont pretend... You are so different in PM and the way how you post now. I dont wonder anymore why we had this issue.

So what if i talk differently with you on PM and on forums? You´re really new here... If you can get irritated by me so easily, i wonder how you will be able to handle the other old-timers here... lol....

and kookie wants to have the "last word"... ... I really don´t care.

No more personal arguements in this thread please.

 I agree - and as Garie seems to have plenty of information if they continue I will have the last word - and lock the thread.

ohh my! newbies will really get scared of you. Stop torturing me in PM. Your true color is now showing.

OK - have it your own way - this thread has become a waste of space.

Sorry Garie - I am sure you can ask again in another thread if you need more information.

please lock thread. She will not stop unless she has the "last word". I already PM´d her, that i was done talking with her, and i wanted to end converstion, but she wouldn´t let it go. I can show my PM´s to you if you think it´s necessary.