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CeeKay17:
I was just contacted by the embassy to provide my travel insurance certificate and intended travel date.
I was also asked to submit a prepaid courier envelope which I already did during my visa appointment 2 weeks ago. Do I still need to submit another courier envelope?

Yes, just do as requested.

My passport is not ready / at the consulate. Can I still register and sit for the exam?
To register, all you need is a copy of your international passport. However, on the day of the exam, you MUST present the original copy of your passport. If your passport will not be available on the day of the exam, you have to pre-inform the language office at least 3 working days before the exam via email attaching the proof that your passport is indeed being processed at the immigration office, at the Austrian embassy or the German Consulate. The language department will then confirm whether you will be allowed to sit for the exam with or without it.
language-lagos@goethe.de

Atopet:
Hi all,

Please if you do not have your international passport with you, can you be allowed to write the goethe exams?
Can another ID like NIN etc be accepted to be granted access?

Your courier envelope should still be valid. It is just two weeks old. I'm in the same situation as you though just that my own courier envelope is 7 months plus old. And I still got the assurance of the embassy that it would be delivered.

Meanwhile, how many days interval were you requested to put between your submission date and your date of travel?

CeeKay17:
I was just contacted by the embassy to provide my travel insurance certificate and intended travel date.
I was also asked to submit a prepaid courier envelope which I already did during my visa appointment 2 weeks ago. Do I still need to submit another courier envelope?

bashito:
Your courier envelope should still be valid. It is just two weeks old. I'm in the same situation as you though just that my own courier envelope is 7 months plus old. And I still got the assurance of the embassy that it would be delivered.

Meanwhile, how many days interval were you requested to put between your submission date and your date of travel?

Yes I read your story earlier. Anyways I bought and sent another envelop today in order not to delay the process. 14 days.

Justcul:


Yes, just do as requested.

Yes I bought and sent another envelop today in order not to take any risks. Nobody likes to pay double money but it's a small price to pay for a visa.

Mrbigman1:
Pls, ppl who have been contacted by the embassy lately for visa approval, did your email have an ‚Approval Mail‘ (AM mail) as the heading or embassy just asked you to come with your passport? And no travel insurance was also requested.

Again, was anyone asked to come at a given date or visa will be denied.

My wife got such manner of email today and it’s confusing what that means.

Just an email requesting her to come on a particular day and time.

I am suspecting is a second interview, did your home office also give you appointment for the same date? A friend of mine got such letter from the embassy last year. All you need to do now is to calm down and look for someone who has gone for second interview before to tell your wife the likely ask questions and also go through the copy of the Visa and questionnaire form she filled when she went for her interview. The letter means embassy is not satisfied with a particular area in her visa matter.

heybaby12:
Hi all,
I don't think there is any particular way for this procedure but I noticed most people here hear from their foreign offices after lawyers verification.

But in my case I got Approval from my foreign office then the next week the lawyer goes for verification,

I would like to know if it was so for any one.
As in Auslandsamt verification before lawyers.

Pls where’s your location in Germany

stellina22:


Pls where’s your location in Germany

NRW

Please what do I do. I've applied for visa appointment with the German consulate since July last year and I'm yet to get a date for my interview. Please does it take this long. It's 8months now. What can I do please. Anyone?




quote author=Aminattah post=111363827]
My passport is not ready / at the consulate. Can I still register and sit for the exam?
To register, all you need is a copy of your international passport. However, on the day of the exam, you MUST present the original copy of your passport. If your passport will not be available on the day of the exam, you have to pre-inform the language office at least 3 working days before the exam via email attaching the proof that your passport is indeed being processed at the immigration office, at the Austrian embassy or the German Consulate. The language department will then confirm whether you will be allowed to sit for the exam with or without it.
language-lagos@goethe.de

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Which type of visa?

Nekkyblinkz:
Please what do I do. I've applied for visa appointment with the German consulate since July last year and I'm yet to get a date for my interview. Please does it take this long. It's 8months now. What can I do please. Anyone?




quote author=Aminattah post=111363827]
My passport is not ready / at the consulate. Can I still register and sit for the exam?
To register, all you need is a copy of your international passport. However, on the day of the exam, you MUST present the original copy of your passport. If your passport will not be available on the day of the exam, you have to pre-inform the language office at least 3 working days before the exam via email attaching the proof that your passport is indeed being processed at the immigration office, at the Austrian embassy or the German Consulate. The language department will then confirm whether you will be allowed to sit for the exam with or without it.
language-lagos@goethe.de

[quote author=Nekkyblinkz post=111395361]Please what do I do. I've applied for visa appointment with the German consulate since July last year and I'm yet to get a date for my interview. Please does it take this long. It's 8months now. What can I do please. Anyone?


It takes a year to get a date for your interview.so expect it July this year

I am team July 2021 too. Don't worry, it will soon reach us.

Nekkyblinkz:
Please what do I do. I've applied for visa appointment with the German consulate since July last year and I'm yet to get a date for my interview. Please does it take this long. It's 8months now. What can I do please. Anyone?




quote author=Aminattah post=111363827]
My passport is not ready / at the consulate. Can I still register and sit for the exam?
To register, all you need is a copy of your international passport. However, on the day of the exam, you MUST present the original copy of your passport. If your passport will not be available on the day of the exam, you have to pre-inform the language office at least 3 working days before the exam via email attaching the proof that your passport is indeed being processed at the immigration office, at the Austrian embassy or the German Consulate. The language department will then confirm whether you will be allowed to sit for the exam with or without it.
language-lagos@goethe.de

heybaby12:


NRW

Ok thank you

Ejopee:

I am suspecting is a second interview, did your home office also give you appointment for the same date? A friend of mine got such letter from the embassy last year. All you need to do now is to calm down and look for someone who has gone for second interview before to tell your wife the likely ask questions and also go through the copy of the Visa and questionnaire form she filled when she went for her interview. The letter means embassy is not satisfied with a particular area in her visa matter.

Thanks.
I also suspected that it’s a second interview but needed to confirm. I have been in a heated argument with the Ausländerbehöde here for the past 3 months. So they didn’t contact me again. Alas they have responded the embassy.


Meanwhile, have anyone gone for a second interview ? What as it like ?

Secondly, how long from second interview to getting your visa ?

Thanks

Mrbigman1:



Thanks.
I also suspected that it’s a second interview but needed to confirm. I have been in a heated argument with the Ausländerbehöde here for the past 3 months. So they didn’t contact me again. Alas they have responded the embassy.


Meanwhile, have anyone gone for a second interview ? What as it like ?

Secondly, how long from second interview to getting your visa ?

Thanks

Second interviews are not common. They probably need some more data or something about your verification/first interview did not add up. Just hope this second one is concluded quickly

Appointment on the 2nd of February 2022
Lawyer verification on the 27th of March

Mat94:
Appointment on the 2nd of February 2022
Lawyer verification on the 27th of March

Nice. Please do you stay in Lagos?

In Benin city

Mat94:
Appointment on the 2nd of February 2022
Lawyer verification on the 27th of March

Since you had your appointment only recently, could you please share a template of asked questions, So that others can learn and prepare before their upcoming appointments?

Congratulations in advance

1. How and when did you meet your spouse
2. If your spouse is a student, they ask you were he's schooling and the name of the school
3. When did you get married and what kind of marriage
4. When did he proposed
5. How often do you guys communicate
6. When last did you see him
7. How do you cope eg does he send you money or you feed for yourself alone
8. How old is your spouse
9. Do you understand german very well
10. What do you do for a living (the wife)
Etc... Dose were basically the major questions I was asked...

Ejopee:

I am suspecting is a second interview, did your home office also give you appointment for the same date? A friend of mine got such letter from the embassy last year. All you need to do now is to calm down and look for someone who has gone for second interview before to tell your wife the likely ask questions and also go through the copy of the Visa and questionnaire form she filled when she went for her interview. The letter means embassy is not satisfied with a particular area in her visa matter.

I just got a letter today inviting me for interview too by my foreign office. Same day and time with my wife.

Can you help me ask your friend what was it all about ? And how did it go ?

If possible, link me to him so he can gimmi some tips.

Thanks

So you have not gotten your AD too?

Aminattah:
I am team July 2021 too. Don't worry, it will soon reach us.

Mat94:
1. How and when did you meet your spouse
2. If your spouse is a student, they ask you were he's schooling and the name of the school
3. When did you get married and what kind of marriage
4. When did he proposed
5. How often do you guys communicate
6. When last did you see him
7. How do you cope eg does he send you money or you feed for yourself alone
8. How old is your spouse
9. Do you understand german very well
10. What do you do for a living (the wife)
Etc... Dose were basically the major questions I was asked...

@mrbigman

Mat94:
1. How and when did you meet your spouse
2. If your spouse is a student, they ask you were he's schooling and the name of the school
3. When did you get married and what kind of marriage
4. When did he proposed
5. How often do you guys communicate
6. When last did you see him
7. How do you cope eg does he send you money or you feed for yourself alone
8. How old is your spouse
9. Do you understand german very well
10. What do you do for a living (the wife)
Etc... Dose were basically the major questions I was asked...

@Mrbigman
According to my friend then she was ask the above � questions and much more like personal questions about her husband like favorite color, favorite good favorite dress, color of room, color of bedsheet, how much he earn, her relationship with the child the husband had with white woman before they got married, her relationship with the husband siblings, were she stay with her husband if he is in Nigeria, how much he send for feeding and so on! embassy also ask her a tricky question if she will go to Germany if they only Grant her visa and denied her 6 months old baby. According to her she called someone who had second interview that have cross over to Germany who told her the likely ask questions and she discuss them with the husband and anyone that both of them did not discuss and she doesn't know the right answer to it, she just said I don't know to avoid providing guess ànswer. She said second interview are usually tougher than first interview note: you and your spouse will be interview at same time make sure your answers correspond
If everything goes well with the second interview it doesn't take time before you are ask to submit insurance.
Above all you need prayer

Someone said on a Facebook platform that after booking an appointment with German embassy for FRV also book appointment with a psychiatrist.
The whole process is going to emotionally and mentally damage you……. Hahahahahha

stellina22:
Now after booking an appointment with German embassy for FRV also book appointment with a psychiatrist.
This whole process is going to emotionally and mentally damage you.

Errmm... No, it's not.

You receive what you believe.

Family visas collected yesterday to the glory of God. I will sign off of this thread but before I do, I will share everything I have learned from this process starting from the time we applied to the time my family got their visas. It will not be the usual interview transcripts, I believe there's enough of that already. When I have some time I will type it out and post it here.

Thank you to everyone who supported and answered our questions through this time. God bless. Cheers to a new dispensation �

Ganesass:
Family visas collected yesterday to the glory of God. I will sign off of this thread but before I do, I will share everything I have learned from this process starting from the time we applied to the time my family got their visas. It will not be the usual interview transcripts, I believe there's enough of that already. When I have some time I will type it out and post it here.

Thank you to everyone who supported and answered our questions through this time. God bless. Cheers to a new dispensation �

Congratulations ……

Congratulations

Finally, the torturous journey of getting a German National Visa for about 2 years ends today!

To God be the Glory!

When the journey seems longer than usual it is not always an indication that you have a problem.

Let me give you a highlight of my journey on this family reunion visa process.

I applied for a family reunion visa on the 28th July, 2020.

Received a mail for interview on the 8th July, 2021.

Had my interview on the 5th of August, 2021.

Lawyer called on the 4th September, 2021.

Lawyer visited on the 9th September, 2021. The lawyer tried to manipulate me to pay him 200k as bribe but my spouse called his bluff because I have complete documents. No issues.

We waited for the foreign office to contact my spouse but they didn't. So, we chose to contact them. He wrote them a mail on the 2nd of November, 2021 informing them of our application.

They responded on the 4th of November, 2021 and requested him to submit some documents.

He submitted these documents on the 12th of November, 2021.

Since then, we waited and waited and waited!

After the endless wait we started calling them at the foreign office and sending mails. No response to mails and no picking of calls.

Around January, 2022 they started picking calls. They informed us that the woman in charge of our file was sick and she just resumed. So we should expect a response in two weeks.

After 3 weeks, we called again and we learnt that the woman's health had gone very bad and she had gone off work. And our file would be given to someone else to handle.

We waited and called again. No definite answer. We are working on it nooni!

Then, 1st of March, 2022 the foreign office sent my spouse a mail. They apologised profusely for delaying our application because of shortage of staff and covid.
They informed us that the positive response had been sent to the embassy in Nigeria and we should contact them henceforth.

We called the Nigerian embassy again and they told us to send a mail and attach the response we got from Germany to it. This was done on 10th of March, 2022.

On the 15th March, 2022. Approval Mail sent to me.

Dropped documents in person at the consulate on the 16th of March, 2022.

Documents received back today, 31st March, 2022 with my Visa stamped on my passport. Dem grant their mama 6 months!

Note: My A1 expired on the 24th of January, 2022. I prayed they shouldn't request another one and it was answered.

Germany here we come o!

I'm open to questions.

God's speed to others that are still on the waiting list.

bashito:
Finally, the torturous journey of getting a German National Visa for about 2 years ends today!

To God be the Glory!

When the journey seems longer than usual it is not always an indication that you have a problem.

Let me give you a highlight of my journey on this family reunion visa process.

I applied for a family reunion visa on the 28th July, 2020.

Received a mail for interview on the 8th July, 2021.

Had my interview on the 5th of August, 2021.

Lawyer called on the 4th September, 2021.

Lawyer visited on the 9th September, 2021. The lawyer tried to manipulate me to pay him 200k as bribe but my spouse called his bluff because I have complete documents. No issues.

We waited for the foreign office to contact my spouse but they didn't. So, we chose to contact them. He wrote them a mail on the 2nd of November, 2021 informing them of our application.

They responded on the 4th of November, 2021 and requested him to submit some documents.

He submitted these documents on the 12th of November, 2021.

Since then, we waited and waited and waited!

After the endless wait we started calling them at the foreign office and sending mails. No response to mails and no picking of calls.

Around January, 2022 they started picking calls. They informed us that the woman in charge of our file was sick and she just resumed. So we should expect a response in two weeks.

After 3 weeks, we called again and we learnt that the woman's health had gone very bad and she had gone off work. And our file would be given to someone else to handle.

We waited and called again. No definite answer. We are working on it nooni!

Then, 1st of March, 2022 the foreign office sent my spouse a mail. They apologised profusely for delaying our application because of shortage of staff and covid.
They informed us that the positive response had been sent to the embassy in Nigeria and we should contact them henceforth.

We called the Nigerian embassy again and they told us to send a mail and attach the response we got from Germany to it. This was done on 10th of March, 2022.

On the 15th March, 2022. Approval Mail sent to me.

Dropped documents in person at the consulate on the 16th of March, 2022.

Documents received back today, 31st March, 2022 with my Visa stamped on my passport. Dem grant their mama 6 months!

Note: My A1 expired on the 24th of January, 2022. I prayed they shouldn't request another one and it was answered.

Germany here we come o!

I'm open to questions.

God's speed to others that are still on the waiting list.

Congratulations... edited