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A property owner's residence permit does not automatically cover their spouse or children

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

A property owner's own property-linked residence permit does not by itself extend to their spouse or children. Eligible family members instead fall under the separate Family Residence Permit regime; a residence-permit holder is one of the categories of person the regulation recognises as able to act as sponsor (destekleyici) for that separate permit.[1]

Exceptions

  • This Rule confirms only the core structural proposition — that the two permits are separate, and that a residence-permit holder is one recognised sponsor category — and does not detail which family members are eligible, at what age, under what dependency conditions, or with what documents. Those are separately evidenced in the Family Residence Permit's own provisions (see property-owner-residence-duration-current-guidance's sibling Rules on Family Residence duration and income) and must not be inferred from this Rule.
  • Do not read this Rule as implying automatic entitlement for any family member merely because the owner holds a residence permit — sponsorship is a precondition, not a guarantee; the family member must independently satisfy the Family Residence Permit's own conditions.

Applies to

Who:
Owners

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

Confirmed against the 14 September 2026 consolidated regulation text. Related family-residence-permit content is tracked separately in NCR's ongoing research and is not restated here.

History of this rule

  • — Published following Founder approval (item 48, APPROVED WITH NARROW SCOPE). Deliberately narrow per the Founder's explicit instruction not to approve by implication every family-member category, age threshold, dependency condition or document requirement — those remain separately evidenced. (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.

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Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/property-owner-residence-does-not-extend-to-family

Identifier property-owner-residence-does-not-extend-to-family · Open data · challenge this rule