Work Permit

Dear All,

As of 21.02.2022, we will be handling all Work Permit Applications from VOYA VISA office. We provide walk-in appointment service between 9 am to 2 pm Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Please do not attempt to book an appointment on our general appointment booking page.

Please email us before you visit our office . Our email address is workpermit@voyavisa.com. Work Permit application starts by visiting our office in person with the below-listed required documents.

In brief, you should have the following required documents :

• -Job introduction and work visa request letter from the Turkish company: This letter must be addressed to the Turkish Consulate London. It must include your Turkish job title in brackets (should not exceed 30 characters), tentative/proposed starting date, duration of work visa. The job title must be exactly the same with the employment contract. (The start date of your work can't be mention as backdated from your visa application date) Job offer letters are not acceptable.

• -Employment Contract: Besides your contract details, must also include Turkish job title (should not exceed 30 characters), (if your documents are all in English), proposed/tentative starting date, duration of work visa (There should be no discrepancy in information supplied between Letter from the Turkish company and Employment Contract). It should be in normal A4 size document. No small prints, please. (The start date can't be mention backdated from your visa application date)

• Passport Original and Photocopy

• 1x Biometric Photograph (UK passport size, maximum 6 months old)

• Entertainer Form: (If relevant) For those who are going to work as entertainers, dancers, animators, artists, singers etc. Three-page document, can be downloaded from https://bit.ly/entertainersform address. You must email us this form when requesting for an appointment.

• Teachers: Pre-approval letter from Ministry of Education

• Permanent Resident Card: EU passport holders should bring their immigration status reference numbers printout (for us to check from Home Office’s relevant website). For non-EU non-British passport holders must present a valid resident card - and its photocopy or visa for UK with sufficient validity to come collect the visa, which is approximately 2 months or over. See the relevant website at https://bit.ly/immig01 

• Passport Validity Duration: Applicant’s passport must be valid for the duration of employment and additional 60 days minimum. 

• Travel Insurance: Regarding to Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Republic of Turkey it must be done by our office.

To Summarise the Process: 

1. Applicant needs to contact to our office through workpermit@voyavisa.com email with an appointment request. Email reference should be: Work Visa Appointment. Work Visa appointments are only between 9:00 am till 2 pm, Monday to Friday (excluding bank holidays). Other appointments made through our general appointment system are not valid. 

2. Once the appointment is confirmed, the applicant will attend our office at Voya Visa, 110 Kingsland Road E2 8DP, London. You must bring all original and photocopied documents with you (listed above). You will need to make payment after your interview. 

3. You should receive the work visa reference number in up to 10 days from The Turkish Consulate and must forward the reference number to your Host Company (or whoever is in charge of the paperwork) in Turkey. Before you receive this reference number from the Turkish Consulate London, you can not travel to Turkey.

4. Work Visa process time 4-6 weeks. During the process we are not going to keep the passport with us. But before you receive the reference number from the Turkish Consulate London, you can not travel to Turkey.

5. Once the work permit approved, your visa will be issued by the Turkish Consulate General. Hence, the applicant must bring the passport to our office. The passport will be send to the Turkish Consulate London by our office and visa will be ready in 10 days. Once the visa is ready collection email will be received by the applicant.

6. Applicants will have to enter Turkey with the work visa to activate the work visa. The applicant will be given the work permit card by the Host Company, which will allow multiple entry permission for their travels from/to Turkey.