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Residence-permit exemption for a sponsor's grandparent over 70 with no living parent or child

Rule record · last verified 17 September 2026

In force since 25 May 2026.

Rule

A foreigner who is the direct ascendant (grandmother or grandfather) of a sponsor, aged over 70, none of whose first-degree relatives (mother, father or child) are alive, is exempt from needing a residence permit. The sponsor must be a TRNC citizen or a legal residence-permit holder supporting the grandparent's family-unity-based presence in the TRNC.[1]

Conditions

  • The person is a direct ascendant (grandparent) of the sponsor.
  • The person is aged over 70.
  • None of the person's first-degree relatives (mother, father, child) are alive.

Applies to

Who:
Dependants

Where this rule comes from

Instrument
A.E.460/2026, amending Articles 2 and 12 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 97 of 25 May 2026), Article 3, inserting Article 12(1)(r); the "sponsor" (Destekleyici) definition amended by Article 2 of the same instrument
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 17 September 2026.
Legal review
Not yet reviewed by a named legal reviewer. Marked for priority review.

Editorial note

This exemption is enabled by the same instrument's broadened "sponsor" (Destekleyici) definition, which now covers a person supporting a residence-permit-exemption application, not only a residence-permit application. That definitional change is not published as a separate rule; it has no independent decision-material effect apart from making this exemption possible. No regulatory-event page was created for A.E.460/2026: it amends only these two narrow provisions, with no predecessor rule to supersede.

History of this rule

  • — First published from the primary text of A.E.460/2026, following a source investigation that read the instrument in full. (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]
    A.E.460/2026, amending Articles 2 and 12 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (within Official Gazette No. 97 of 25 May 2026)

    Official Gazette of the TRNC (State Printing Office) · Legislation and gazettes · 25 May 2026 · original in Turkish · accessed 17 September 2026 · source record

Cite this record

https://northcyprusreference.com/en/rules/residence-sponsor-grandparent-exemption-over-70

Identifier residence-sponsor-grandparent-exemption-over-70 · Open data · challenge this rule