Approved in Ankara from the second attempt.

Attempt no. 1

Applied on February 11 and waited until March 22 just to get "Wrong place of passport issuance".

So, I lost $400 for indicating an authority and not my home country. They require your country name and not an authority.

Attempt no. 2

Applied on March 27, approved on April 5.

Work:

I'm a freelancer, so I created a long PDF with my portfolio, Terms of Service of one of the platforms, a letter from one of my customers allowing me to work remotely.

Residence:

I uploaded my Turkish residence permit, my rental agreement, and Turktelekom bill to confirm my address in Turkey.

Finances:

I uploaded a fresh bank statement (no stamps, just downloaded it from the app) for theast 3 months.

No additional requests.

Pending approval on April 4.

Approved on April 5.

I wanted to make their work easy, so I prepared 3 PDFs with tables of content and I decided not to add excessive documents.