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The property-based residence permit requires living in the property, not renting it out

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

According to Immigration Department, the TRNC property-based residence permit requires the applicant to actually use the property as their own residence — renting it out to someone else would not satisfy this specific route's eligibility criterion, per the Immigration Department's own published guidance.[1]

Exceptions

  • Sourced from an official Immigration Department guidance page, not the underlying statute or regulation, which the page itself does not cite — the precise legal basis for this specific criterion has not been independently confirmed.

Applies to

Who:
Owners

Where this rule comes from

Authority
Immigration Department, TRNC
Jurisdiction
Turkish Cypriot administration (TRNC)
Basis
Official TRNC position · attributed
Verification
Secondary source only
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer.

History of this rule

  • — Published following Founder approval. Published as guidance-tier since the underlying statutory basis is not independently confirmed. (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]
    Property-Based Residence Permit (Taşınmaz Mala Bağlı İkamet İzni) — official guidance page

    Immigration Department, TRNC · European Court of Human Rights · original in Turkish · accessed 20 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/property-residence-permit-requires-own-occupancy

Identifier property-residence-permit-requires-own-occupancy · Open data · challenge this rule