Manage foreign employment not file by file, but as a programme.
Turning permit processes into a programme for companies that regularly employ foreign personnel: calendar, template files, compliance audit, and HR integration.
Why a programme?
In companies with five or more foreign employees, permits are no longer isolated files but an operation: an extension every month, a new hire every quarter, thresholds that change every year. Without a programme, missed deadlines, employment-ratio breaches and project delays become inevitable.
Components of the programme
Calendar
a single view of all permits and extension windows, with automatic reminders.
Template files
document sets standardised by role and nationality, apostille-translation routes.
Threshold planning
synchronisation of the Turkish-employee ratio and salary thresholds with the hiring plan.
Compliance audit
consistency of SGK (Social Security Institution), tax, and payroll records with permit conditions.
Integration with HR
The programme connects to your HR system: permit feasibility is visible before a hire is approved, and when someone leaves, the notification duties fire on their own. For new assignments, status selection and the family plan are part of the standard flow.
From baseline audit to quiet operation
The programme is installed in five steps. Baseline audit: every existing permit, its expiry and its file quality are mapped; threshold compliance under the International Labour Force Law No. 6735 — including the employment-ratio and capital criteria — is tested as it stands. Remediation: permits close to expiry, and any gap in salary level or in the employment ratio, go onto a dated correction plan before the programme goes live. Programme design: the calendar, template files and escalation rules are written for your organisation, not a generic one. Pilot quarter: we run the first cycle together — extensions, new files, notifications — until the routine holds. Handover and review: your HR team operates, we audit quarterly and step in on exceptions, tracking the refusal rate, processing times and missed deadlines so that a deviation is traced to its cause and not merely noted. Deliverables: the programme manual, the permit dashboard and the template file set.
The two statutes underneath it
Two statutes carry the programme: the International Labour Force Law (No 6735), which governs work permits, and Law No 6458, which sets up the residence regime. The assessment criteria — how many Turkish employees are expected for each foreign national, the multiples of the minimum wage attaching to a given role, the company’s capital and turnover figures — are the arithmetic of every file, and the point of a programme is to apply that arithmetic to the hiring plan in advance rather than discover it at the counter. A valid work permit also stands in place of a residence permit; the status of family members is planned separately. Used properly, the exemptions — short assignments, and visits for installation or training — remove whole permit files from the workload rather than reshaping them. The status architecture as a whole is set out in our residence, work permit and citizenship focus area.
Who needs a programme, not files?
Typical clients: companies employing five or more foreign nationals, regional headquarters relocating staff into Türkiye, and German groups rotating executives and specialists between the two countries. For the latter, the programme runs in both directions: Türkiye permits on one side, German assignments on the other, managed as one mobility calendar together with our EU Blue Card practice. The long-term layer — permanent residence and citizenship options for key people — is planned within our Residence, Work Permit & Citizenship focus.
We are by your side for the Corporate Immigration Programme
We set up the programme, run it together with you through the first quarter, and provide management visibility with regular reports. In cases of refusals and snags, our appeal line is engaged; the goal is for immigration compliance to become a quiet and seamless layer of your HR operation.
Other Applications of This Service
Work Permits & Foreign Personnel — our other specialised solutions in this area.
Matter Connections
The focus areas, practice areas, desks and legislation connected with this sub-service.
Our Matters in This Service
The anonymised examples of our work that relate to this service.
Assignment of an engineering team to Germany
Relocation of the project team to Germany through an EU Blue Card and assignment structure; including family reunification.
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The favourable resolution of a work permit refused for a key position, through grounds analysis, restructuring of the file, and an appeal process.
Review the matter →The Team Delivering This Service
With our multilingual team of lawyers, well-versed in Turkish and German law, we are by your side.
Related Publications
Fresh perspectives and guides from the Knowledge Centre.
In practice, at the threshold of 5+ foreign employees or 5+ applications per year, a programme works out cheaper than case-by-case management — even leaving the risks aside.
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Let us identify the right solution together, drawing on our experience in Türkiye and the DACH region.