Türkiye e-Visa: only at evisa.gov.tr, which of our nationalities need it, and the passport rule nobody knows about

⚠️ Sensitive information — always check the official source

Visa requirements, quotas, amounts and dates change often. Every fact in this guide was checked against the official source on 2026-09-30 and we re-check it periodically, but before starting any procedure confirm the details on the official links (embassy, consulate or ministry) shown on this page. viajacongus.com does not process visas and does not replace official information.

💵 How much it costs

Not published in a current form. You see the exact amount inside evisa.gov.tr at the payment step, once your nationality and passport type are loaded. The only thing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs publishes is a fee table (vize-harc-miktarlari-en.pdf) DATED 10 NOVEMBER 2014 with amounts «AS OF 1 MAY 2014»: it lists the DOMINICAN REPUBLIC at «20 $» and MEXICO as «No fee», and SURINAME does not appear at all because its e-Visa came later. Since the Turkish visa regime has changed several times since 2014 (Mexico, for one, stopped being exempt and went back to needing a visa), treat that table as a historical reference and not as the current price: the number that counts is the one the portal shows you before you pay. What is still current and official: «Fees for e-Visas obtained via the e-Visa website (www.evisa.gov.tr) are lower than the fees for visas obtained upon arrival to Turkish airports». Verified on 23/09/2026.

⏳ How long it takes

Minutes. The Ministry states that the system lets you obtain the e-Visa «in approximately three minutes» and that it works around the clock: «It is possible to obtain e-Visa 7/24 at everywhere with internet connection. The applicants can obtain their visa after they fill in the necessary information concerning their identity, passport and travel dates and pay visa fee online». No processing time other than that is published, because in the general case approval is automatic once payment is confirmed. For the consular visa for Cuba and Guyana, and for Mexico's 90-day visa at the consulate, the Ministry publishes NO timeframe: Not published; you have to ask at the representation where you apply.

📅 How long it's valid

They are two different things and the Ministry publishes only one of them. DAYS OF STAY, by nationality, verbatim from the official entry: Mexico, 30 days with ONE single entry if you get it through the portal (or 90 days with multiple entries if you go to the consulate); Dominican Republic, 3 months with multiple entries; Suriname, 30 days with a single entry; Guyana, 15 days with the visa issued by Turkish representations; Cuba, not published. VALIDITY of the authorisation, meaning from when until when you can use it to enter: not published on the Ministry's pages; the dates are printed on the e-Visa you download, so look there and buy your tickets around that. And now Türkiye's own rule, the one that catches the most people out: your passport must be valid for 60 days LONGER than the stay you are authorised. Verbatim: «As of 1 January 2015, in accordance with the article 7.1b of 'the Law on Foreigners and International Protection' no. 6458, foreigners wishing to enter Türkiye should carry a travel document (passport) with an expiration date at least 60 days beyond the 'duration of stay' of their visa, e-Visa, visa exemption, or residence permit». With the two examples the Ministry itself gives: «Example A: In order to enter Türkiye having a visa with 90 days 'duration of stay', foreigners should hold a passport/travel document valid at least for an additional 60 days which totals to 150 days (90 days + 60 days/5 months) of validity at the time of entrance. Example B: In order to enter Türkiye having a visa with 30 days 'duration of stay', foreigners should hold a passport/travel document valid at least for an additional 60 days which totals to 90 days (30 days + 60 days/3 months) of validity at the time of entrance». Watch out: this is NOT only for those who get a visa; it also applies to the visa exemption, so an Argentine or a Spaniard entering visa-free for 90 days also needs 150 days of passport validity. Exempt are those who can enter with a national identity card (Germany, Belgium, Spain, France, Georgia, Greece, Italy, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Portugal and Switzerland) and holders of diplomatic, special or official passports. And the Ministry's own general recommendation, above all of this: «You are kindly advised to have a travel document/passport valid for at least 6 months as from the date of your arrival in Türkiye».

👤 Who needs it?

Of the 28 nationalities we follow, 23 need NOTHING: they enter visa-free, almost all for 90 days (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Spain, United States, Guatemala, Honduras, Italy, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Germany, Andorra, Australia and Denmark), except COSTA RICA, which also enters visa-free but only for 30 days: «Costa Rika: Ordinary and official passport holders are exempted from visa for their travels up to 30 days». Those that DO need a procedure are five, split into two groups. CAN USE THE e-VISA at evisa.gov.tr: MEXICO («Ordinary and service/official passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye. Holders of such passports may get their 90-day multiple-entry visas from Turkish missions abroad or obtain their 30-day single-entry e-visas via the website www.evisa.gov.tr»), DOMINICAN REPUBLIC («Ordinary passport holders can obtain three month-multiple entry e-Visas via the website www.evisa.gov.tr») and SURINAME («Ordinary passport holder Surinamese citizens may obtain 30-day single-entry e-visas via the website www.evisa.gov.tr»). CANNOT USE THE PORTAL and must go to a Turkish diplomatic or consular representation no matter what: CUBA («Ordinary passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye», and the official entry offers no e-Visa) and GUYANA («Ordinary passport holders are required to have visa to enter Türkiye and they can get their 15 day period visas from Turkish diplomatic representations abroad»). One important detail: for Mexico, the Dominican Republic and Suriname the Ministry's entry does NOT require holding another visa beforehand. Many other nationalities are asked for a valid Schengen, United States, United Kingdom or Ireland visa or residence permit, plus a return ticket, a hotel booking and 50 dollars per day, and entry only through an airport. Do not copy guides written for those nationalities: that is not your case.

🧭 The step by step

Check the official entry to see what applies to you

The Ministry publishes a country-by-country list of what applies to each passport. Find your country there and read the full entry, because it distinguishes between ordinary, service, official and diplomatic passports, and the regime can differ for each. If you are one of the 23 exempt nationalities, close the page: you have nothing to apply for, just the passport rule to meet. If you are from Mexico, the Dominican Republic or Suriname, carry on with the portal. If you are from Cuba or Guyana, do not waste time on evisa.gov.tr: your procedure is consular.

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Watch out: Costa Rica appears on the list as «Costa Rika» and gets 30 days, not 90. If you search the page for «Costa Rica», it does not come up.

Go ONLY to www.evisa.gov.tr

It is the Ministry of Foreign Affairs' site and it is the only one. The Ministry's own page always points to that address. Type it by hand into the browser bar instead of arriving via a search engine: the top results are usually paid ads from intermediaries with almost identical names («e-visa turkey», «turkey evisa official», «apply turkish visa online») that charge three or four times the fee to fill in the same form.

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Watch out: No intermediary can speed anything up: the Turkish e-Visa comes out in minutes and the process is automatic. If a site offers you «urgent processing» for a surcharge, it is pure hot air.

Before you start, measure your passport's validity

Do the maths now, not after paying. Planned entry date + the days of stay your e-Visa will give you + 60 days. If you are Mexican and get the 30-day e-Visa, your passport must be valid for at least 90 days from the day you enter. If you are Dominican with a 3-month stay, you need 150 days. If you fall short, renew your passport first: the e-Visa is issued against a passport number and cannot be transferred.

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Watch out: This rule is Turkish and has no equivalent in almost any other country, so it catches even very well-travelled people off guard. And it is checked at the immigration desk on arrival: with a perfect e-Visa but a passport short on validity, you do not get in.

Choose carefully between e-Visa and consular visa if you are from Mexico

Mexico is the only one of our cases where it is worth thinking it over: through the portal you get 30 days and ONE single entry; at a Turkish diplomatic or consular representation they give you 90 days with multiple entries. If your trip is two weeks and direct, the e-Visa is enough and it is faster and cheaper. If you are going to stay more than a month, or plan a side trip to Greece, Georgia or northern Cyprus and back, the single-entry e-Visa is used up when you leave and the consular one works out better.

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Watch out: With the single-entry e-Visa, once you leave Türkiye you cannot re-enter with it: you have to get another one and pay again.

Enter your nationality, travel document type and entry date

The form starts by choosing the country that issued your passport, the document type (ordinary, service, official, diplomatic) and the date you plan to arrive. With those three pieces of data the system decides whether you are eligible and which option it offers you. Enter your real arrival date, not an approximate one: the validity dates later printed on your e-Visa come from there.

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Watch out: The passport type changes the result. A Mexican with a service or official passport needs a visa just like one with an ordinary passport, but one with a diplomatic passport is exempt for 90 days.

Create your account with an email you actually check

The system works with a user account: you enter your email, a verification message arrives and from there you manage your applications, your travel documents and the people in your charge. Keep the password: the same account lets you log back in to download the e-Visa if you lose the PDF.

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Watch out: If the verification email does not arrive, check your spam folder before creating a second account with another email: otherwise you will end up with applications split across two accounts and will not find anything.

Enter the passport details exactly as they appear

First name and surname exactly as on the biometric page, with both surnames if the passport has them, passport number without spaces, issue and expiry dates, date and place of birth. The system saves travel documents in your profile, so if you travel with family you can enter each one's document once and reuse it.

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Watch out: The e-Visa is tied to the passport number you entered. If you renew your passport after getting it, the e-Visa is no good: you have to apply for another with the new number.

Add each travelling companion separately

Every person needs their own e-Visa, minors included, and each one with their own passport. From your account you can add the kids and the rest of the group and submit all the applications together, but they are independent authorisations and each one carries its own fee.

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Watch out: A minor listed in an adult's passport cannot get an e-Visa. They need their own passport.

Review the application before paying

Before payment the system shows you a summary with nationality, document type, passport number, dates and the visa option (days of stay and number of entries). Read the whole thing. It is the last point where a mistake can be corrected at no cost: once paid, the e-Visa is issued with the details you entered.

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Watch out: Check that the option is the one you expected. If you are Mexican and expected 90 days and the summary says 30 and single entry, you are getting the e-Visa, not the consular one: that cannot be changed afterwards.

Pay by card on the portal

Payment is made inside evisa.gov.tr. The system accepts a wide range of methods: Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners, Discover, JCB, UnionPay and several local European and Middle Eastern methods. The amount only appears at this step, already calculated according to your nationality and visa type. Keep the receipt and a screenshot.

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Watch out: If the card is declined, do not redo the application from scratch: log into your account, find the pending application and retry the payment. If you build a second application you may end up paying twice.

Download the e-Visa and check its dates

As soon as payment is confirmed, the e-Visa is issued and you download it as a PDF from your account; it also arrives by email. Open it and check three things: that the name and passport number match the document, the date it is valid from and the date it is valid until, and how many entries it gives you.

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Watch out: The validity window is what defines how long you have to enter, and it does not always match the days of stay. Buy your tickets looking at those dates, not the other way round.

Print it and carry it with your passport

Even though it is electronic, carry the e-Visa printed as well as on your phone: it is asked for at airline check-in and at Turkish immigration control. Print two copies and keep one apart from your passport.

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Watch out: With a valid visa you do not need a residence permit for stays of up to 90 days: «If you have a valid visa, you do not need a residence permit up to 90 days». But if you are going to reside, work or study, you have to register with the local police on arrival, regardless of the visa's validity.

If you are from Cuba or Guyana, the route is the consulate

For these two passports the portal offers no e-Visa: the visa is issued by the embassies and consulates of the Republic of Türkiye. Guyana, in addition, has a short and explicit period: 15 days. Find the Turkish representation that covers your country of residence in the Ministry's directory, book an appointment and ask there for the list of documents, the fee and the timeframe, because the Ministry does not publish them online.

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Watch out: If there is no Turkish representation in your country, jurisdiction lies with the embassy accredited in another country: ask before travelling to do the procedure, and allow for the fact that mailing your passport adds weeks.

If you are going to work or study, this is no use to you

The e-Visa covers tourism and commerce only. For work you have to apply for a work permit and visa at a Turkish representation, with passport, form and a letter from the employer; the rest of the documentation is filed by the employer with the Turkish Ministry of Labour within ten working days. For study, a student visa at the consulate. And anyone going to film a documentary, do research or carry out an archaeological excavation needs prior special permission from the Turkish authorities.

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Watch out: Entering on an e-Visa and then «sorting out» the work permit from inside is not an option: the procedure starts from abroad, at the Turkish representation.

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⚠️ WATCH OUT: as of 30/09/2026 this address no longer serves the form. It opens with the official system's title and a few seconds later redirects via JavaScript to dtvgroup.com.tr, the website of a private company that provides services to the Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. We checked it with a browser: you cannot see it with curl, because evisa.gov.tr returns 200. Until the current address is confirmed, do not apply there or on any site that shows up in a search engine: check with the Turkish consulate in your country. The body issuing the visa is still the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Türkiye.

📋 What you need at hand

Valid passport, with at least 60 days of validity BEYOND the stay you are authorised (30 days of stay = 90 days of passport; 3 months = 150 days)
One passport per person, minors included: children listed in an adult's passport cannot get an e-Visa
Email address to create the account at evisa.gov.tr and receive the e-Visa
Credit or debit card (Visa, Mastercard, American Express, Diners, Discover, JCB or UnionPay, among others)
Planned date of entry into Türkiye
The e-Visa as a PDF, printed and also on your phone
For Cuba and Guyana, and for Mexico's 90-day visa: an appointment at an embassy or consulate of the Republic of Türkiye, plus whatever documentation that representation requires
If you are going for work: contract or letter from the employer and a work permit application at a Turkish representation (it does not go through the portal)
If you are going to film, do research or excavate: prior special permission from the Turkish authorities

⚠️ The mistakes that cost you

Typing evisa.gov.tr by hand and trusting it. Until recently that was the right advice; as of 30/09/2026 that address redirects by itself to the website of a private company, dtvgroup.com.tr, which does not serve the form. And the sites that come up first in search engines are still intermediaries charging several times the fee for the same procedure.
Taking a URL as good because it «responds». evisa.gov.tr returns 200 and even opens with the official title: the redirect happens afterwards, via JavaScript. If you are going to verify an application site, open it in a browser and see where you end up.
Paying for «urgent processing». The Turkish e-Visa is resolved in minutes and the process is automatic: there is no such thing as paid urgency.
Ignoring the 60-day passport rule. It is specific to Türkiye, it is checked on arrival and it leaves people stranded with the visa already paid for.
Believing the 60-day rule applies only to those who get a visa. It also applies to the exemption: an Argentine, a Spaniard or an American entering visa-free for 90 days needs 150 days of passport validity.
Getting the e-Visa as a Mexican expecting 90 days. Through the portal it is 30 days and ONE single entry; the 90 days with multiple entries are only issued by the consulate.
Leaving Türkiye on a single-entry e-Visa thinking you can come back. It is used up when you leave.
Searching for «Costa Rica» in the Ministry's entry and not finding it: it appears as «Costa Rika», and it is 30 days of stay, not 90.
A Cuban or a Guyanese losing their trip trying to get an e-Visa: for those two passports the portal does not offer it and you have to go to the consulate.
Copying the requirements of other nationalities. Many countries are additionally asked by Türkiye for a valid Schengen, United States, United Kingdom or Ireland visa or residence permit, a return ticket, a hotel booking, 50 dollars per day and entry only through an airport. The official entry does NOT ask Mexico, the Dominican Republic or Suriname for that.
Using the e-Visa to work or study. It is only valid for tourism or commerce; for anything else, the consulate.
Renewing your passport after getting the e-Visa. It stays tied to the old number and you have to apply again.
Entering your name differently from how it appears in the passport (reversed, without the second surname, with accents). It is issued with what you typed and cannot be corrected.
Redoing the whole application when the card fails, instead of retrying the payment from your account: it is the most common way to pay twice.
Buying tickets looking only at the days of stay. What defines how long you have to enter is the validity window printed on the e-Visa.
Going by the Ministry's fee table as if it were today's price: it is dated 10 November 2014 and the regime has changed several times since then.
Getting the visa on arrival at the airport to «save time»: the Ministry itself states that the visa on arrival costs MORE than the e-Visa.

🔎 Where this comes from

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