Residence Permit, continued

Waiting.

Today I finally took care of the final steps which are necessary to get my residence permit. I paid 50 Lira at the Kaymakamlık (don't ask me what it means), because it would be way too easy for those foreigners trying to get their residence permit if they could pay the money at the police station. Since everything was labeled in Turkish, I asked some official-looking man (who was about half as tall as me) where I should go. The midget obviously didn't speak English. Luckily, some Turkish girl was kind enough to translate, and after a while, I knew where I had to go (gotta love Turkish girls). I was welcomed by an unfriendly-looking woman, who didn't really talk, but since she took my money and gave me some document in return, I figured that she knew what I meant. Now that I had all the documents, I went back to the police station. I arrived five minutes before they closed (5pm, lazy bastards!) and managed to hand in my documents. My risk of getting deported has now decreased by about 60% (the remaining 40% account for the fact that I'm still not holding the residence permit in my hands, plus police arbitrariness [this is Turkey, after all]).