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Tourist/visit-purpose visa durations by circumstance

Rule record · last verified 22 September 2026

In force. Start date not confirmed in this record.

Rule

A visitor entering for a touristic visit and staying at a hotel/accommodation or renting housing gets up to 30 days on their own declaration, or up to 90 days with a paid reservation document and receipt for the excess. A visitor staying at a relative's home, or visiting a relative up to the third degree, gets up to 60 days unless the Minister restricts this further. A visitor for an official/business/conference/festival/health-tourism purpose gets their demonstrated duration plus one week, extendable to a 90-day maximum by the Chief Immigration Officer on documented extension of purpose.[1]

Exceptions

  • Article 9(1) carries 'A.E.784/2026' amendment markers, already separately known to NCR and not a currentness concern, but this Rule does not itself re-verify that no other, unrecorded amendment touches these specific sub-clauses.
  • Article 9(1)(b)-(f) (training, work-permit, business-establishment and residence-permit-application visas) are not part of this Rule's proposition.

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.

History of this rule

  • — Published following Founder approval (visitor-duration half; the cumulative-cap half is published separately as visa-90-in-180-day-cumulative-cap). (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/visitor-entry-duration-by-purpose

Identifier visitor-entry-duration-by-purpose · Open data · challenge this rule