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When uncertainties concerning the nature of life are considered, the solution procedure of AHP has been addressed by using Interval Type-2 Fuzzy Numbers (IT2FN)s to obtain more realistic results. The usability of AHP with IT2FN is increased by amplifying hierarchy with sub-levels. Since sub-criterion may also need to be evaluated on sub-criteria in some cases of real multi-criteria problems, it is explicitly essential that each of sub-sub-criterion is included in the hierarchy at the own level in the real sense. In this paper, a new multilevel type-2 fuzzy AHP method is expanded by adding sub-criteria to the Interval Type-2 Fuzzy AHP (IT2FAHP) method developed by Kahraman et al. [C. Kahraman, B. \u00d6ztay\u015fi, \u0130. Sar\u0131 and B. Turano\u011flu, Fuzzy analytic hierarchy process with interval type-2 fuzzy sets, Knowledge-Based Systems 59 (2014), 48\u201357.]. Thanks to the extended method, another aim is to ensure that even complex situations that have multiple levels can be solved simply. Also, the proposed method is illustrated with a portfolio selection problem. 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