Invitation letter for Turkish friend

passive

Apologies if there's a better place for this... Looked through forum index but couldn't think where to put this as I'm not sure exactly what I'm asking/what kinda area it's best suited to.

I'm on Erasmus at the minute and planning to have a reunion thing in Dublin next June. My friend from Turkey has asked me if I could send her a letter, stamped by the "prefecture" (I'm not sure what this equates to in Irish govt/admin terms, though the word translates the same on wordreference.com, the source of all my French) inviting her and her boyfriend to visit, to help her with Visa applications and whatnot...

So... em... Anyone have any experience with something like this? Where should I go to do this?

Sonnenblumen

Could you not organise a visit to Cyprus, more space and better weather!

Karoma

I'd imagine she means the person / people responsible for organising the erasmus - get a letter from them saying that they're invited for a reunion thing and for how long.

tolosenc

What she wrote was in French? PM me the relevent parts and I'll see what I make of it.

passive

Hmm... okay, think I explained that badly or left things overly vague. It's not an official event or anything, just a handful of us meeting up in Dublin (circumstantial reasons, though Cyprus would be preferable :P; German friend will be there to visit an Irelandbound German erasmus friend anyway) and my Turkish friend needs (or thinks she needs) some kind of invitation note from myself, stamped or certified in some way, to explain her reason for heading to Ireland... presumably to inspire confidence that she isn't trying to sneak into the EU and go AWOL (she isn't, as it happens)

I've never heard of anything like this... but... if she does need it, i'd like to know what building/department I should go to for said stampage...

Karoma

Figured as much - she doesn't really need it as far as I know, she's only visiting; it'd just seal the deal and since you don't have any authoritah or stamp - the uni / college stamp would do the trick.

passive

Alright so, failing any new information I'll just write her a nice invitey letter and get it stamped by my college so... Merci!

since you don't have any authoritah

Can I... Can I have some autoritah? *applies for AH modship*

L1011

Does prefecture not mean local police in many languages? Either way, the college is the best bet for someone with some authority that will do it, either that or confuse some fresh-from-templemore garda in to doing it.

randylonghorn

MYOB wrote: »

Does prefecture not mean local police in many languages?

Police is what I would have thought.

MYOB wrote: »

... either that or confuse some fresh-from-templemore garda in to doing it.

None of them would be confused enough to stamp it if you start talking about inviting Turkish people and they having to stamp a letter in order for her to get a visa, they will be sure you're trying to pull a fast one and that it will rebound in some way on them.

If you type out a nice official looking letter, and bring it in with some form of proof of identity / address, and explain that it is a requirement that you sign it in front of them and they stamp it to verify your signature / address, they might just go along ... there are other circumstances in which they are required to verify identity / signatures / etc.

However, if the application for Visa is at the Irish end, as it probably is, I would imagine a College stamp would be more useful, tbh.

moco

Do you mean an invitavion letter for a visit visa?

passive

umm... yeah, I guess? Where do I do that?

DonJose

Couldn't she just go to the Irish embassy and apply for a tourist visa. You don't have any say in her getting a visa, it'll be an offical who decides that.