# Verification record — tr/nvi/renunciation-of-turkish-citizenship-with-permission-application@1.0.0 ## Candidate selection GOV-4825 ("GovSchema Standard Research"). The GOV-4818 cycle opened Türkiye as the registry's 100th jurisdiction via Form Vat-3 (general acquisition of citizenship), confirming all five other verticals as dead ends and banking the remaining VAT-1/2/4-11 forms on the same NVI page as future National ID & Civic Documents companion-schema candidates. That cycle specifically flagged **VAT-9** ("Renunciation of Citizenship with Permission") as a simpler ~62-field fallback candidate, scouted but not authored. This cycle re-fetched VAT-9 fresh and authored it directly as this v1.0.0, closing that banked fallback. ## Reaching the live source - **Form Vat-9**: `https://www.nvi.gov.tr/kurumlar/nvi.gov.tr/mevzuat/nufusmevzuat/Formlar/Vatandaslik/Vat9-FormIzinAlarakTurkVatCikma.pdf` — confirmed live directly from NVI's own current `nvi.gov.tr/vatandaslik-ile-ilgili-formlar` listing page (`href` scraped fresh this cycle, not reused from the banked GOV-4818 record), HTTP 200, `Content-Type: application/pdf`, `Content-Length: 1063612` bytes (matches the downloaded file exactly), sha256 `13782150337782532aa58952192e10bbb9faf0f952e4cc6c87c2e8aa2a7d26d0`, `Last-Modified: Tue, 04 Aug 2020 08:33:49 GMT`, no login/CAPTCHA gate. Retrieved 2026-07-25. - Field structure extracted with `pdfjs-dist`'s `getAnnotations()` (62 AcroForm widgets on a single page). The page was additionally rendered at scale 2.5 via `node-canvas` and visually inspected, since several widgets' own `alternativeText` tooltips are miscopied placeholders from a different field type (e.g. the minor-children table's `Cinsiyet_3`/ `Cinsiyet_4`/`Cinsiyet_5` and `Din_3`/`Din_4`/`Din_5` widgets all carry the tooltip "Eğitim Durumu" rather than their own row label) — resolved by matching each field's rendered position against the visible table row/column header it actually sits under ("Cinsiyeti" and "Dini" rows), not by tooltip text. - Legal basis: Law No. 5901 on Turkish Citizenship (Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanunu), Article 25 — the form's own closing declaration cites this article by number ("5901 sayılı Türk Vatandaşlığı Kanununun 25'inci maddesine göre izin almak suretiyle Türk vatandaşlığından çıkmak istiyorum"). ## Findings / disclosed scoping calls 1. **The applicant here is a current Turkish citizen, not a foreign national** — the opposite direction from Vat-3 (acquisition). The form's own identity field is a genuine `T.C. Kimlik No` (11-digit national identity number), not the `99...`-prefixed foreign identity number Vat-3 captures; modelled as `identityNumber` with pattern `^[1-9][0-9]{10}$`, distinct from Vat-3's `foreignIdentityNumber`. 2. **`submittedToOffice`/`submittedToOfficeType` split, unlike Vat-3's single `submittedToGovernorate`** — Vat-9's salutation-line dropdown offers two mutually exclusive destinations, `BAŞKONSOLOSLUĞUNA` (Consulate General, for applicants residing abroad) and `VALİLİĞİNE` (Governorship, domestic), reflecting that renunciation applicants are commonly filing from outside Türkiye — Vat-3's own salutation line only offers the Governorship. Modelled as a free-text office-name field plus a 2-value enum, rather than collapsing to one string, since the two are visually and semantically distinct inputs on this form. 3. **`birthPlace` is a single field**, unlike Vat-3's three-way `birthPlaceName`/`birthCountry`/`descentOrLineage` split — Vat-9's printed "Doğum Yeri" block is one plain text box spanning the full row width, with no separate country or "Soyu" (descent) column on this form. 4. **`phoneNumber` and `emailAddress` each collapse a visually-split pair of input boxes into one field**, matching Vat-3's own precedent — the source prints a parenthetical area-code box before the phone number and splits the email box around a fixed, non-editable "@" glyph. 5. **`sex` is a 2-value enum (`male`/`female`)** derived from the applicant's own radio-button checkbox pair (Erkek/Kadın); **`childXSex` is also modelled as the same enum** even though the minor-children table's own AcroForm widgets for this column are plain text boxes, not radio buttons — consistent with Vat-3's established precedent for the same "minor children" table type (its own `child1Sex`/`child2Sex`/ `child3Sex` fields are likewise enums over a text-typed source widget). 6. **The 3-column minor-children table is modelled as bounded-slot `child1`/`child2`/`child3` fields (10 fields per child), all optional** — the same bounded-slot precedent Vat-3 established for this registry (e.g. `us/uscis/naturalization-n400`'s `child1Name`/ `child2Name`/`child3Name`, and Vat-3's own children table). The form provides exactly 3 columns and states no further overflow procedure. 7. **`educationLevel`, `occupation`, and `religion` are left optional** (no explicit required marker on the form for these three, matching Vat-3's treatment of the identical fields on its own applicant block). All other applicant-block fields are `required: true`. 8. **Out of scope**: the header's office-completed registration date/number, the biometric-photograph box, and the closing `Ad Soyad`/`İmza` (printed name/signature) line — the same widget (`Başvuran Ad`, id `519R`) that Vat-3 excludes for its own equivalent line, per this registry's established flat-PDF convention. `declarationDate` (the date accompanying the signature) is kept in scope as applicant-provided data, distinct from the signature mark itself. 9. This closes the GOV-4818-banked VAT-9 fallback candidate. VAT-1, VAT-2, and VAT-4 through VAT-8 and VAT-10/VAT-11 remain open, unscreened backlog candidates on the same NVI page for a future companion-schema cycle. Türkiye remains 1 of 6 verticals open (National ID & Civic Documents) — this is a second schema within that already-open vertical, not a new vertical or jurisdiction. ## Conformance 2 valid mock scenarios — `valid-minimal-no-children-governorate` (exercising only the 15 unconditionally-required fields, filed domestically with a Governorate) and `valid-consulate-general-with-three-children` (filed with a Consulate General abroad, exercising every optional field plus all 3 children columns fully filled) — plus 15 static-`required`-field mutation fixtures (one per required field) and 1 unknown-field-rejected fixture — 18 fixtures total, committed under `conformance/tr/nvi/renunciation-of-turkish-citizenship-with-permission-application/1.0.0/`. This schema has no `requiredWhen` conditional-requirement gates (unlike its Vat-3 sibling), so no mutation-requiredwhen fixtures apply. An ephemeral, from-scratch conformance checker (deriving required-field rules directly from this schema's own `fields[]`, discarded after use, not committed) ran all 18 fixtures: both valid scenarios at 0 missing-field errors, every mutation fixture raising exactly the one error it targets, and the unknown-field fixture's extra key correctly flagged. Validated clean with `node tools/validate.mjs` and `node tools/validate-ajv.mjs`, individually and as part of the full registry run. `registry-index.json` regenerated via `npm run build-index` in `tools/govschema-client/`.