Blood Tests for Residency

TheRooster


Joined: 05/11/2008
Posts: 10

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 15:22

Does anyone know if you can have your blood tests for Residency done at the local Girne State Hospital? If so how did you get on?

andrew4232



Joined: 04/07/2009
Posts: 1543

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 15:41

i think you can have them done at any clinic you like once you got the test slip from the old bill

crofter


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 1035

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 15:45

Yes you can have them done at the state hospital but be prepared for long queues and chaos. Unless you are able to converse in Turkish it is a nightmare trying to go through the procedure.

CarrieRBag



Joined: 23/12/2008
Posts: 1374

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 15:53

We were told by the police to use a private one as they are cheaper than the state one.

crofter


Joined: 16/12/2008
Posts: 1035

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 17:37

Believe the charge at the state hospital is 10tl so compared with what the private clinics charge it is not cheaper to use a private clinic.

inigo


Joined: 23/10/2010
Posts: 50

Message Posted:
10/11/2010 20:41

I paid 80 TL at Girne Private Hospital just 500 meters far from Girne State hospital.They gave the results in less than 24 hours

Fyi

booitsme


Joined: 04/02/2009
Posts: 667

Message Posted:
11/11/2010 08:12

Is it just the blood test or do they do the skin test for TB as well? Our friends had both done for their residency application (not their first one) but looking at this it seems it is just the blood test. Once you know the system at Girne state hospital (turn up early and be prepared to use your elbows ) it's not too bad and the results are back around 2pm the same day.

bimbo


Joined: 31/03/2007
Posts: 112

Message Posted:
11/11/2010 18:00

Hi



Can anyone advise me, do I have to queue up for a blood test form.? or can I go straight in and collect ?



SUE

flutterby


Joined: 11/01/2008
Posts: 214

Message Posted:
12/11/2010 13:10

Does anyone know if you can you get your blood tests done before visiting the police station and then take them in? Would save a double queuing

Brinsley


Joined: 04/04/2009
Posts: 6858

Message Posted:
12/11/2010 13:12

Msg 9

In a word, NO!



Richard

Warbabies


Joined: 18/04/2009
Posts: 165

Message Posted:
26/11/2010 09:39

Does the blood test result have to accompany the rest of the paperwork for residency, when visiting Girne Police Station?

artistabroad


Joined: 06/07/2009
Posts: 104

Message Posted:
26/11/2010 09:53

Some days they let you pick up a slip for the blood test at the Police Station without queuing, other days won't. Worth asking. When you get the slip you give this to the lab, who also take a copy of your passport page with your details on it, so take an extra copy. The Lab gives you a receipt at the point and you pick up the results in a sealed envelope a few days later. You take the RECEIPT to the police station along with your other papers, and queue again. You keep the RESULTS, still sealed, to take to Immigration in Lefkoşa approx three weeks later.

Tenakoutou



Joined: 27/07/2009
Posts: 4110

Message Posted:
26/11/2010 10:51

'artistabroad' is absolutely correct with the information listed in message 12.



We made the the mistake of waiting until we got the blood test result, thinking that the Girne police immigration man needed both the result and the receipt. Only the receipt is required by Girne police station, and you cannot submit all your other photocopies of the various documents unless you produce the blood test receipt at the same time.



The result, in a sealed envelope, must be retained by you until you go to Lefkosa Immigration and handed in there.



Why only foreigners under sixty years of age are deemed to be potentially contagious is beyond all logical reasoning. If this isn't blatant racism, what is? Is it not the 'locals' who mainly patronise the dozens of, euphemistically termed, 'night clubs'?



So, according to government thinking, I can only assume that I am totally impotent and that my wife has suddenly, after five years residency, suddenly started 'bed-hopping' - charming!