Can People Who Have Applied For International Protection Apply For Work Permit?

22.11.2017

1- CAN PEOPLE WHO HAVE APPLIED FOR INTERNATIONAL PROTECTION APPLY FOR WORK PERMIT?
For the foreigners who have applied for International Protection (asylum) and received a status of “conditional immigrant”, 6 months after the application date (act numbered 6458, article 89, paragraph 4), a work permit application can be made to The Ministry of Labor and Social Security by the employers who want to employ them. If the foreigners already have a residence permit and they are applying for work permit to be employed in another city, these applications are concluded after The Ministry of The Internal is consulted.

2- IS PASSPORT VALIDITY CONSIDERED WHILE GRANTING WORK PERMIT?
According to the 6458 numbered Law, article 23: The work permits approved by The Ministry of Labor and Social Security and granted to foreigners are organized in the manner that they don’t exceed the 60 days after passport’s validity ends.

Also the work permit applications done with passports (and other documents that substitute for passports) of less than 60 days are not put into process.

Source: Ministry of Labor and Social Security