Cross-border practice
Built for international clients, with every file handled end to end across jurisdictions.
Worldwide Legal Counsel · Correspondence in the Client's Language
Serka Law Firm: Citizenship, Investment, and Cross-Border Counsel
Serka Law Firm represents investors, founders, and families in cross-border matters, with citizenship by investment as its flagship practice. Our global multilingual team handles the entire file, in your own language, wherever you are.
- Serka Law Firm takes on your matter and carries the file from the first document to the final decision
- You send the documents and a power of attorney; we run the file and tell you at the outset what you must do in person: in a citizenship file, the four steps the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs asks of the investor
- Citizenship by Investment
- Immigration & Residence
- Corporate & Commercial
- International Arbitration
- Property Lawyer for Foreign Buyers
- Family & Divorce
- Criminal Defense
Practice Areas
Matters in any country, under the law that governs them
Select any area to open its route: review, filing, and follow-up.
Global coordinated team
Every matter runs through our global multilingual team, from first eligibility review to filing and post-filing steps.
Tell us your matter. We answer in your language.
★ Our flagship · Worldwide
Citizenship by Investment & Golden Visa
- by Buying PropertyUSD 400,000
- by Bank DepositUSD 500,000 · three years
- by Government BondsUSD 500,000 · three years
- by Fund UnitsUSD 500,000 · three years
- by Private PensionUSD 500,000 · three years
- by Fixed Capital InvestmentUSD 500,000 · three years
- by Company Formationthe Capital and Jobs Routes
Read the full guideOur flagship: citizenship by investment wherever a credible program exists, the Turkish one included. We confirm each program's live status before you commit.
Citizenship by investment is our flagship practice, in any State that runs a credible program, Türkiye among them. Programs open, change, and close quickly, so we read each program's current rules at their official source and confirm its live status before you commit. In Türkiye the firm runs the file from the legal checks on the investment to the citizenship decision, and the Directorate General of Civil Registration and Citizenship Affairs names four steps the investor takes in person: obtaining the Certificate of Conformity, applying for the short-term residence permit, collecting the residence card and applying for citizenship.
Citizenship by Investment Country Comparison
- Saint Luciaprivate enterprise · US$3,500,000
- Antigua and Barbudaeligible business · USD 1,500,000
- JordanJOD 500,000 to 1.5 million
- Greeceresidence permit · EUR 800,000
- St Kitts and Nevissingle-family home · US$600,000
- Egyptspecial account · USD 500,000
- Türkiyebuying property · USD 400,000
Read the full guideCountry comparison on each authority's own figures: minimum by route, holding period and authority for every program, beside Türkiye.
Corporate & Investment
Read the full guideCompany formation, shareholder structures, contracts, governance, and risk review.
Corporate and commercial counsel: company formation, M&A transactions, shareholder disputes, contract drafting, commercial litigation, and regulatory compliance for international businesses.
Immigration & Work Permits
Read the full guideResidence permits, work permits, entry-ban analysis, and administrative follow-up.
Immigration counsel for foreign nationals: residence permits, work permits, deportation defense, entry-ban appeals, and citizenship-linked immigration planning.
International Arbitration
Read the full guideDispute strategy, evidence planning, and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards.
International arbitration counsel for clause drafting, emergency strategy, seat and governing-law decisions, and enforcement of arbitral awards.
International Trade
Read the full guideCross-border commercial contracts, customs questions, and enforcement planning.
Representation in international commercial disputes, cross-border litigation, enforcement of foreign judgments, and trade sanctions compliance.
Family Law & Divorce
Read the full guideCross-border divorce, custody, and family-law matters, wherever the family lives.
Representation in international divorce, child custody, alimony disputes, prenuptial agreements, and recognition of foreign family-court judgments.
Criminal Defense
Read the full guideDefense before the criminal courts, white-collar matters, and international criminal-law files.
Criminal defense for foreign nationals: attendance from police custody (gözaltı), questioning before the criminal judge of peace (sulh ceza hakimliği), objections to pre-trial detention (tutukluluk) and requests for judicial control (adli kontrol) in its place, Interpol Red Notice defense, and individual applications to the Constitutional Court.
Debt Collection & Enforcement
Read the full guideCross-border asset recovery, enforcement files, and liquidation.
Cross-border debt recovery, enforcement proceedings, bank-account seizures, asset confiscation, and execution of foreign court judgments.
Property Lawyer for Foreign Buyers
Tapu checks before you pay, the 4% title deed fee, the USD 400,000 citizenship route, transfer under power of attorney.
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Global Network
International Legal Coordination
When a matter reaches another country’s courts, registries or authorities, we take it there with independent law firms admitted in that country, each one vetted against its own bar’s register before we work with it. The client instructs and pays each firm directly, every firm answers to its own bar, and no fee passes between us for an introduction. The file stays under a coordinated global plan, and the client deals with our team from start to finish.
11+Years in the legal profession
Key Facts
The Firm at a Glance
Legal authority
Serka Law Firm handles the official filings and the regulatory compliance of every matter, and the source-of-funds file wherever money moves. The roll entry of its reviewing advocate, Av. Serkan KARA, stands in the Istanbul Bar’s public register under number 53770.
Multilingual execution
Client correspondence, documentation, and legal translation in the client's own language, coordinated end to end by our global multilingual team under the lawyer who runs the file, wherever you are.
Flagship practice
Citizenship by investment is the firm's flagship practice. In Türkiye, the routes of Article 20(2) of the regulation implementing Turkish Citizenship Law No. 5901 include real estate, a bank deposit, government debt instruments, real estate and venture capital investment fund units and the private pension system, and on each of them the Turkish bank asks for the source of the funds. Each file is run on the current official rules of the State that grants the citizenship, confirmed before the client commits.