Rule · superseded
A residence permit granted to a foreign student pursuing associate, bachelor's, master's or doctoral study at a higher-education institution in the TRNC was granted for a maximum of two years at a time.[1]
Applies to
- Who:
- Students
Student residence permit: two years at a time (historical, superseded)
Rule record · last verified 17 September 2026
Superseded This rule stopped applying on 23 August 2026. The current rule is Student residence permit: one year at a time. The record is kept for history.
Where this rule comes from
- Instrument
- Residence Permits and Visas Regulation under Chapter 105 Aliens and Immigration Law, consolidated text dated 19 February 2026, Article 13(3), before amendment by A.E.784/2026
- 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 record does not state a start date for this rule. We have read Article 13 of the baseline consolidated text, which marks this exact clause with the margin citation 'A.E.286/2024'; the same document's own amendment-history header dates A.E.286/2024 to 26 March 2024 (Official Gazette No. 63) — but we have not independently fetched and read A.E.286/2024 itself to confirm this attribution firsthand, so that date is not recorded as this rule's start date. What we can confirm from our own direct reading: this two-year cap was in force as of the 19 February 2026 consolidated text and remained in force until 23 August 2026, the day before A.E.784/2026 replaced it.
Lineage
- superseded by Student residence permit: one year at a time
Regulatory events
History of this rule
- — Published retrospectively as the historical predecessor to 'Student residence permit: one year at a time', from our own reading of Article 13 of the Residence Permits and Visas Regulation (consolidated 19 February 2026). (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]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/residence-student-permit-two-year-cap-historical
Identifier residence-student-permit-two-year-cap-historical · Open data · challenge this rule