Minister of Interior Ziya Öztürkler made statements about what is intended with the “E-Visa Automation System”, which they consider as the most important of the steps taken to protect the country’s security and public peace, and what gains will be achieved with its implementation.
Minister of Interior Ziya Öztürkler made statements about the “E-Visa Automation System”.
Ziya Öztürkler said, “With the E-Visa Automation System, which is one of the works carried out, it was started a while ago to ensure the peace of the country”.
He stated that it is aimed to renew the Immigration Systems, to ensure registration in the country, to deport the foreigners involved in crime, and to control the entry into the country in parallel with the updating of the immigration systems.
In order to protect the country’s security and public peace, a multi-faceted work has been carried out since the first days they took office, they have completed all the technical work as the ministry for the implementation of the E-Visa Automation System, which constitutes the most important pillar of the basic vision they have put forward, and that the project is ready for the tender stage.
He announced that the budget approval of the project, which will be tendered for a price of 255 thousand 500 dollars from the Ministry of Finance, has recently been received, and that with the activation of the E-Visa Automation System will bring strict control to the entry into the country.
In this context, Minister Öztürkler also stated that 1,500 people were deported in 4 months due to irregularity or involvement in crime, meetings were held with relevant stakeholders to restructure the Immigration Systems, and a comprehensive Immigration Amnesty was prepared as a last chance to ensure registration.
We will have taken an important step forward in these matters with the implementation of the ‘E-Visa Automation System’, which will reap the benefits and which I believe will be effective in reducing the crime rates, which will enable the entry into the country to be controlled much more tightly.
Öztürkler underlined that with the E-Visa Automation System, the information of foreigners who will come to the country will be checked beforehand, pre-checks will be made before they come to the island, and border security will be increased and people will be recorded.
Öztürkler pointed out that with the e-Visa application, since another person who is inconvenient for public security will be known before coming to the island, the high costs incurred by the state for deportation will also disappear for years. He stated that he will contribute to the creation of the missing structure.
Minister Öztürkler, who also gave information about the operation of the E-Visa Automation System, said, “With the activation of the E-Visa System, the ‘E-Visa’ will consist of seven different institutions after the official e-Visa form is filled in, by logging in to the E-Visa portal from the official website of the Ministry of Interior, and uploading the necessary documents.
He stated that the applications will be checked and filtered through the system by the Visa Control Office, namely the Population Registration Office, the Immigration Department, the Ministry of Labor, the Ministry of Health, the General Directorate of Police, the Ministry of National Education and the Tax Office.
Öztürkler stated that after the necessary evaluations are made by the Control Office, visas will be issued to legally eligible applicants online, and said, “Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of National Education and Ministry of Health contributed significantly to the establishment of the e-Visa system”.
Thanks to this cooperation, with the structure established, the ‘E-Visa Control Office’, which will consist of seven different institutions, will be enabled to work with integrated systems, and an important step will be taken for e-government by deduplicating the data of foreigners and all personal data on the systems.
Minister Öztürkler pointed out that electronic transactions can be made easily over the E-Government portal, thanks to the basic structure to be created by the E-Visa Automation System.
With full integration between the systems to be provided in the future stages, and added that the long queues created by people who want to do business in public institutions, which we have been complaining about for years, are reduced and the era of electronic transactions can be reduced.
He said the door will open.
