wip7:
Whats the validity of your student letter/certificate issued to you? If your letter will end by October, you will need to re-apply for visa to enter TRNC but with your valid USA visa you can make the application at Istanbul,..... if not airline will not even allow you to fly from Turkey down to TRNC. The rule is that, you must have valid Mucaret to travel to TRNC as a old student or valid TR visa as a new student or entry visa as a tourist. TRNC does not use USA visa to represent TRNC visa....two different countries!!!
If your Student letter is valid beyond October or will be valid before your arrival.....another way out for you is to contact your university personnel to make arrangement with immigration at Ercan to list your name, so that way if you are stopped...they will check the names listed and allow you in but if not......you may not be allowed to come in.... otherwise apply for TR visa in your current country of residence. We do have many cases like these in the past and thats how we solved the issues!.....i hope this can guide yiu!

Thanks a million Mr wip7 this is very enlightening I couldn't even get this much information from the international office, my student letter covers till October so I may as well leave before it expires that will save me a whole lot of resources.
Again thanks for the good work!

Good job bro!

Good day House,
Please my question concerns the possibilities of traveling to TRNC, i was a student at one of the higher institutions but had to leave the island for a year during which my Mucharet (residence permit) expired . I am all set to go back and resume studies this September and have all necessary documents to prove am a student of the institution (Current Student letter). My question is do i still have to apply for a transit visa? minding the fact that i currently hold a valid USA visa. Thanks for your help.

Hello people, just wondering if anybody is visiting the USA on a J-1(exchange visitor) Visa am thinking am the only one cos I have read the whole thread,part 1-4 and there is nothing for J-1 visa applicants.pls house kindly help