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Stamped sale contract plus income: up to five years' residence before title transfer

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

A buyer with a stamped, Tax-Office-approved sale contract who applies to the Ministry may be granted a short-term residence permit for up to five years (matching the length requested), conditioned on income of at least one minimum wage per month — or, for those without regular income, a lump-sum bank deposit equal to one minimum wage multiplied by the number of years of permit requested.[1][2]

Exceptions

  • This Rule states the CURRENT REGULATION TEXT figure — one minimum wage per month — for this specific route. Founder-reported current guidance describes a materially different figure for property-linked residence generally (three minimum wages plus a monthly instalment condition), which has not been independently confirmed as applying specifically to THIS stamped-contract route rather than to the titled-owner route or a different, unrelated provision — see the Conflict record property-owner-residence-income-and-duration for the broader, better-evidenced version of this same law-versus-guidance pattern (documented there for the titled-owner category specifically). Treat any '3 minimum wages' figure for this route as an unconfirmed practice lead, not as this Rule's own finding.

Applies to

Who:
Buyers

Where this rule comes from

Authority
Council of Ministers, TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Legislation · asserted by us within this jurisdiction
Verification
Primary source verified. We read the primary text ourselves on 22 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.

Editorial note

One of four related provisions on property-linked residence pathways; see this rule's own Exceptions for the income-figure discrepancy with other guidance.

History of this rule

  • — Published following Founder approval, split out of a related finding. Deliberately does not adopt the Founder-described '3 minimum wages' figure for this specific route, since NCR's own direct reading of the current regulation text states one minimum wage — flagged explicitly in exceptions rather than silently overridden. (version 1, First published)

Sources for this rule

Numbered in order of first use. Each entry names the kind of source it is and the day we read it.

  1. [1]
  2. [2]
    Residence Permits and Visas Regulation under Chapter 105 Aliens and Immigration Law, consolidated text dated 19 February 2026

    Central Legislation Office, TRNC · Legislation and gazettes · 19 February 2026 · original in Turkish · accessed 14 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/property-linked-residence-stamped-contract-income-route

Identifier property-linked-residence-stamped-contract-income-route · Open data · challenge this rule