The file rejected on a technicality
A missing apostille, a diploma translated by the wrong authority, a contract dated one day too early. The application restarts, and the start date moves by a quarter.
Permits
Mobility · Türkiye
Expat Destination Services
The whole life-cycle — permit, home, school, tax, departure — run by one named team in Istanbul, with KPMG Türkiye alongside. A relocation is not won at the border; it is won in week three.
Where do you start?
Two situations, one discipline.
A first assignment and a programme that has outgrown its owner are not the same brief. They are answered by the same discipline.
Our first foreign hire
Nobody inside the company has done this before.
The route is unclear, the start date has already been promised, and a file rejected on a technicality costs a quarter. What you need first is someone who knows which door to knock on, and in which order.
See the sixteen services →A programme that outgrew us
The volume is manageable. The fragmentation is not.
Permits, renewals, leases, schools, departures — each with a different supplier, each case restarting from zero. Nobody holds the whole picture, so nothing is ever anticipated.
Recognise the symptoms →Do you recognise these situations?
Five patterns we meet in almost every mobility programme we take over. They feed one another.
The lease nobody could read
Signed in Turkish, under Turkish law, with a deposit clause and a notice period the assignee discovers on the way out.
Housing
The spouse with nothing to do by month two
The assignee is fine; the family is not. It is the most common reason an assignment ends early, and the one nobody writes into the risk register.
Family
The renewal nobody was tracking
Permits, leases, insurance — everything has an expiry date. A residence permit allowed to lapse turns a routine renewal into a legal problem.
Compliance
The departure treated as an afterthought
Lease termination, utility disconnection, tax clearance, social security. The end of an assignment is as demanding as the start, and it lands on whoever is still there.
Departure
We run work and residence permits, orientation, home and school search for companies moving staff into Türkiye — and for the families doing the moving.
The file is only closed when the family has stopped worrying.
Nobody fails at the border.
Relocation fails on the small things: a document rejected on a technicality, a lease signed in a language nobody read, a spouse with nothing to do by month two. Each one is minor on its own. Together they decide whether the assignee stays — and HR inherits every one of them, usually at the worst moment.
What lands on your desk.
- Work and residence permits, filed and followed through to the decision
- A shortlisted home in the right district, lease read and negotiated
- Schools, healthcare and banking in place before the family needs them
- One named contact, in your language, from the first call to the departure
Worth knowing
Turkish permit rules change often and are applied locally. What worked for the last assignee may not work for the next one — we re-check the route every time rather than reusing a template.
A relocation, in four stages.
The same sequence every time, whether it is one engineer or a family of five.
- 01
Assess
Eligibility, timing and the realistic permit route — before anyone books a flight.
- 02
File
We prepare, submit and chase the applications, and we talk to the authorities so you do not have to.
- 03
Land
Orientation tour, school search, home search, lease negotiation, utilities, residence registration.
- 04
Settle
We stay reachable after arrival — the questions that matter usually come in week three.
Proven by numbers
Fifteen years of moving people into Türkiye for companies that could not afford the move to go wrong.
200+
Assignments delivered, families included.
40+
Nationalities taken through work and residence permits.
100+ years
Combined experience in the team that handles your file.
16
Services, from the first call to the departure.
Sixteen services.
Take the whole life-cycle, or only the part you are missing.
Work Permit
Companies established in Türkiye must obtain a work permit to hire a foreign employee. More than ten years of doing this with some of the largest companies in the country.
Residence Permit
Expats moving to Türkiye for professional reasons need residence permits for their family. We run the process so they can focus on the new job.
Orientation
Getting acquainted with the new environment: lease agreements, utility connections, choosing the right school, and the hundred small things.
Airport Collection
Arriving in an unknown country and being greeted by a friendly driver changes the first impression — for the employee and for the family.
Serviced Accommodation
Finding the right serviced apartment is a recurring headache for mobility and HR teams. We shortlist solutions that fit your policy and budget.
Temporary Accommodation
When a serviced apartment is unavailable or uneconomical for the length of stay, our local experts find the right temporary option.
Home Search
Take Istanbul: 16+ million people, two continents, an active seismic fault line. We work out the right areas for your budget, commute and safety.
School Search
For employees relocating with children, education needs care. Our team and local experts find schools that fit the family and the assignment.
Individual Tax Consultancy
Fair and legitimate taxation during the assignment. Some expats qualify for advantages, others need double-taxation relief.
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Individual Tax Return
Income tax and social security must align with Turkish law. Compliance saves the employer time, cost and penalties.
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Citizenship by Investment
Under presidential decree No. 106 (18 September 2018), foreigners meeting investment criteria from USD 400,000 may qualify for Turkish citizenship.
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Renewals
We track the key dates — permits, leases, everything with an expiry — and re-engage before they lapse, so the stay is never disrupted.
Cultural Training
Cultural distance is the quiet reason assignments fail. Our training providers reduce the culture shock before it becomes a problem.
Language Training
Settling in without any of the language is hard. Professional providers give the employee and the family at least the basics.
Partner Support
When the assignee’s partner also has a career, the relocation has to work for two. We support the partner’s professional path.
Departure Services
The end of an assignment is as demanding as the start: lease termination, utility disconnection, local commitments. We manage the whole life-cycle.
The work permit, step by step.
Five steps, and we own every one of them.
- 01
Collection
Multiple collects all the necessary documents, including the work contract.
- 02
Appointment
The employee gets an appointment for the work visa at the Turkish Consulate.
- 03
Application
Multiple applies for the work permit at the Ministry of Labour.
- 04
Processing
The application is evaluated and processed by the authorities.
- 05
Delivery
The work permit is issued and delivered to the employer’s address.
Why it holds together.
Immigration expertise
We have supported expats of more than 40 nationalities, with their families, through work and residence permits — and we have the connections with the authorities to process them without friction.
Professional team
Multiple’s seasoned staff are your point of contact, with over 100 years of combined experience in delivering this service.
Discretion & confidentiality
Companies need discretion about their activities and their assignees, especially senior executives. Under GDPR, protecting personal data is not optional — we treat it as a core obligation.
Multicultural & multilingual
We serve expatriates in English, French and Turkish. Speaking the language is not enough: knowing the culture is what makes the connection work.
Positive reviews
We collect feedback from our customers systematically, and the evaluations are consistently strong. Book a meeting and we will happily show you.
Highly recommended
We list our reference accounts publicly because we are confident in the service. We will gladly put you in touch with clients if you want further reassurance.
Strategic partnership
KPMG Türkiye Strategic Partnership Agreement
On 1 September 2020, KPMG Türkiye and Multiple Consulting signed a strategic partnership agreement that expands the services both firms offer to expatriates in Türkiye. The synergy gives companies employing expatriates a single point of contact for all their destination services.
Before… and after.
The same programme, handled two ways.
Handled in-house
- Every case starts from zero, with whichever supplier answered first
- The permit route is copied from the last file, and hope it still applies
- Renewals surface once something has already lapsed
- The family is left to work out school and housing on their own
- HR is the escalation point for every question, at every hour
- Departure is discovered three weeks before the flight
Handled by Multiple
- One sequence, applied the same way to the first assignment and the fiftieth
- The route re-checked against current practice before anything is filed
- Every expiry date tracked, and re-engaged before it bites
- School, home, utilities and banking in place before the family lands
- One named contact in English, French or Turkish — HR is copied, not called
- Departure run as a process: lease, utilities, tax, social security
Companies that trusted us with their people.
Moving someone soon?
Tell us who, where from and by when. We will tell you what is realistic.