Border crossings and airports to avoid long queues, the Electronic Visa Application System (e-Visa) was implemented, which was introduced on April 17, 2013. So far from January 1, 2018 23 million 254 thousand 597 foreigners from 20 million 485 thousand 631 e-I got a visa.
Border crossings and airports to avoid the visa implemented by the Electronic Visa Application System (e-Visa) implemented until April 17, 2013 January 1, 2018 the period of 23 million 254 thousand 597 foreigners of 20 million 485 thousand 631 Turkey took a visa for 3 minutes.
The AA correspondent received an electronic visa from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs on April 17, 2013, according to information received from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
During the period from April 17, 2013, when the electronic visa began to be implemented, until January 1, 2018, 23 million 254 thousand 597 foreign tourists applied for the electronic visa. While 20 million 485 thousand 631 of the applications were converted to e-Visa, the conversion rate to e-Visa is 88.09 percent.
According to the data, the average of 15-17 thousand e-Visa per day, while increasing in the summer months. In the mentioned period, the highest number of e-Visa days was recorded as 46 thousand 747 and on July 13, 2015.
During this period, the most organized country with 5.8 million visas is England, while the UK has approximately 2.6 million with Iraq, followed by 2.1 million in the Netherlands and 1.1 million with Belgium. With 1 million euros Poland and Saudi Arabia, 856 thousand United States, 734 thousand with the People’s Republic of China, 662 thousand with Norway, 621 thousand with Kuwait became the largest amount of e-Visa elsewhere.
In this period, e-Visa collected 457 million 78 thousand 762 USD within the scope of the visa, this figure only in 2017 101 million 776 thousand 885 dollars.
In 2017, only 4.3 million electronic visas were acquired
According to the data, last year 4 million 801 thousand 862 foreign tourists applied for electronic visa. While 4,287,222 of the applicants converted to e-Visa, the e-Visa conversion rate was 89.28%.
The countries that granted the most visas in the period were the United Kingdom with 1.1 million, followed by Iraq, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, the People’s Republic of China, Poland, Kuwait, Belgium, Algeria and the United States, respectively. .
Electronic visa applications that can only be used for tourism and commercial purposes can be made individually, family (minimum 2, maximum 10) and group (minimum 10 and maximum 300).
In addition to the “government website evise for Turkey visa application, a total of 10 kiosks, all of them based at Ataturk airport. Foreigners arriving at the borders, e-visas with the help of these kiosks too they can take credit or debit cards. ” A total of 280 thousand 491 e-Visas were available thanks to the kiosks until the beginning of this year.
Processing completes in 3 minutes
People can get an e-Visa on the government website in an average of 3 minutes. Turkey visa for tourism and trade for travel, foreign representations of the State Department, border crossings and electronic visa application systems.
Applicants who apply for visas in foreign representations, although they are open to all foreigners, through border gateways and the electronic visa system, can only meet certain requirements for citizens of certain countries.
Before the applications that were processed with foreign representatives, foreign citizens were asked to apply for the prior application through “www.visa.gov.tr. In the preliminary application, the foreign citizen must upload his identity, passport and other information., scanned photo, scanned flight and accommodation information, references and similar information to the system.
82.56 percent of foreigners gave the system 5 points out of 5
In the electronic visa application system, applicants are required to provide their personal details, travel documents and dates of travel from anywhere with available internet connection and can obtain their electronic visa on the condition that the visa fee is paid online.
Upon completion of the application, applicants using the system were asked to provide feedback on the new system and 82.56 percent of applicants rated the system with 5 points out of 5 and 9.70 percent with 4 5 points. Comments on the system are published regularly on the website http://www.visa.gov.tr.