frank1001:
Please, who knows the email address to submit the visa appeal? I have gone through their website but no information about submitting an appeal

frank1001:
Please, who knows the email address to submit the visa appeal? I have gone through their website but no information about submitting an appeal

Dannox2018:
Please i will like to know if it is okay to submit a statement of account printed 1week before the date of interview?
Thank you.

gauche:
Hello All,

Please i was given an interview date in Abuja just 11 working days from my planned trip. Its official and my office is sponsoring. Please is there any hope of getting the visa on time? Thier mail says visa procesding is 8 - 10 days but others say its 14 working days.

Any advice will be appreciated.

gauche:
Hello All,

Please i was given an interview date in Abuja just 11 working days from my planned trip. Its official and my office is sponsoring. Please is there any hope of getting the visa on time? Thier mail says visa procesding is 8 - 10 days but others say its 14 working days.

Any advice will be appreciated.

SamReinvented:


German visa interview is very friendly. No need to practice anything, just be honest with your mission in Germany (which should be visiting).You should know basic details of your visit (hotels you'll stay, relationship with inviting host, etc). You'd be given time to explain in detail, any unclear info. As long as, you have coherent answers (which you should if your intention is pure), you're good.


If you have 7:30 interview, prepare to be done around 9am - 9:30 ish. The interview itself lasts about 10 to 30 minutes (depending on your case).... but the other processes and waiting time would take most of the period.

Dannox2018:




Don't fail to gv us the download of how the interview and everything went.
Goodluck.

Ggee:
Was at the embassy around 7.15am for my 7.30 appointment. Met a long queue mostly students so I was allowed in quickly.

I Ieft the embassy around 8.10am. Met a Nigerian lady and she checked the docs. Returned some of copies back such as 2nd application form and the copy of my bank statement

Just ensure you have copies of all the documents well arranged - original follow by its copy.

Dannox2018:



Ok. Thanks for the reply.
But how was the interview?

Ggee:
Trip was for a training sponsored by my company. Question was more on its importance to my organisation.
Wanted to know my monthly salary, countries of my previous Schengen visas.
Took finger prints.
Seems everything went okay. Says I will get a response from them within 14 days.

gauche:



Please sir @ggee was it 14 working days or 14 calendar days? Thank you

gauche:



Please sir @ggee was it 14 working days or 14 calendar days? Thank you

ibukunpops:
Hello Everyone, feedback time

Interview was 9th Jul for 7.30am, we arrived 6.45am (my cousin and I) and was allowed to go in almost immediately (around 7am)

Seat provided for the entire duration, both outside and inside till it was our turn.

A Nigerian lady interviewed us and she collected all documents we went with, both originals and photocopies

Questions:
where are you going to
for how long
why?
what do you do
how many staffs do you have, name their positions
how much do you make as income in a month
have you made any touirist plans
what is the name of the hotel you will be staying with
will you return after the visit (directed at my cousin)
why will you return

DHL picked up our envelope on Friday 19th Jul (on the 9th day)
Passport received back Monday 22nd Jul

My visa was issued but my cousin denied on the ground of not sure she will return before visa expires

My observation:
Please treat like you are going for submission, they are now glorified VFS biko, took family albums to show relationship tie with my cousin but she asked if it will fit into the return envelope (which obviously couldnt) I mentioned she should please look at them to confirm our relationship but she wasnt interested (because looking wouldnt count anyway) the mistake i made was not having the pictures on an A4 paper which would have been submitted alongside our other documents, my last application with my husband was so different, the lady then didnt take all the documents we went with, just collected the basics and looked at the photobook we took along.

After your interview, go to DHL online and schedule shipment notification, that was how I knew when they picked up the shipment and followed through till it was eventually delivered.

I intend to appeal for my cousin anyway, is it better to send email or send in the hard copy remonstration?

Thank you

Ggee:
The supposed visa officers are there to just collect the visa fee and your documents.
I am not sure they can take any decision on whether to issue a visa or not.
I wonder why not outsource the document collection to a company like VFS instead of subjecting people to come to their embassy.

Ggee:
The supposed visa officers are there to just collect the visa fee and your documents.
I am not sure they can take any decision on whether to issue a visa or not.
I wonder why not outsource the document collection to a company like VFS instead of subjecting people to come to their embassy.

SamReinvented:


It is more than just a submission. Those interviewers type their observations and make recommendations to the visa offfice. After verification of your documents, and no issues are found, these recommendations would most likely be the final decision you'd get.

So dont downplay the interviews. Get your appearance and confidence right, and be coherent in your answers, so they wont have reasons to note negative things down for you.

I actually like that German uses real Nigerians for Interviews, nobody can judge the intention of Nigerians better than Nigerians. We know our body language better than anyone else, even when masked.

Ggee:
Good that they are using Nigerians but the benefit of that is neither here nor there.

I rather talk to someone that will take instant decision on my case. That I need to assure of my intention if need be than submit to someone who makes recommendation to another to take a decision.

Note that you have to book appointment like 3 months ahead. Go for a so called interview and has to wait for another 2 weeks to get the decision.

If you are using Nigerians, train them and empower them to take necessary decision on the application.

ibukunpops:
May I ask the last time you visited the Embassy?

What you stated is exactly how it was, my first interview alone I could sense they noted their observation, my next same, the interview with my husband same (note my husband had no prior travel history) infact the lady then didnt want to take much documents at all, she took time to look at our wedding photobook and I could visibly see she was noting down her observation and we got the Visa.

I am telling you categorically that it now different, they have absolutely no influence over the decision because i told the lady that interviewed us to look at the family photobook i brought (all our kids dedication, my kids birthday, preggy photoshoot, our Dubai trip etc, where my cousin clearly was there and most where just us alone (family) pics like the kids birthdays)

We have visited Dubai together as a family but I didnt go with our boarding passes and the passport was an old one, I was banking on the fact that she will see all the photobooks and make her observation (I was sooo wrong)

So my advice still states that you prepare for the interview/questions but most importantly outline and arrange your documents properly, provide all that you would if applying for UK or Canada as the decision if Visa will be issued lies on the German Consulars who are not present at the interview but will decide based on documents made available to them.

Thank you.

Any info if appeal is better to be sent via mail? or to the embasy directly?

SamReinvented:


I renewed my visa earlier in the year. The lady also discarded most of my tie documents (including photos)....but that was mainly because, I already got German visas in previous years and I used them appropriately....so there was less burden to proof that I will not return (I got 3 years multiple entries btw).

NB: In the midst of some jokes she cracked, she actually stated that family photos carry minimal weight anyway and I shouldn't still be bringing such "useless" things to visa appointments . Generally, documents that can be verified with relevant bodies (marriage certificates, birth certificates, joint property ownership, joint accounts, call histories, Passport stamps showing joint travels, etc) carry bigger weight in verifying your ties with someone than photographs that can be photoshopped and no way to verify.

With regards to your cousin. How old is she? Does she have personal ties of her own back in Nigeria? If you stated in the interview that you have travelled together several times and the interviewer didn't ask you further questions on that (or did she?) or ask for proofs such as passport stamps, it means they don't find that to be good enough reason. So I'd advise looking for other ties for your appeal. However, if she did ask specific documents about your previous trips together and you couldn't provide, then now's the time to add them along with other ties.

In my own opinion, if your only trip together with your cousin is just a single trip to dubai, the tie isn't strong enough. So get other ties (if she has). This is just my opinion though. So goodluck.

Ggee:
Good that they are using Nigerians but the benefit of that is neither here nor there.

I rather talk to someone that will take instant decision on my case. That I need to assure of my intention if need be than submit to someone who makes recommendation to another to take a decision.

Note that you have to book appointment like 3 months ahead. Go for a so called interview and has to wait for another 2 weeks to get the decision.

If you are using Nigerians, train them and empower them to take necessary decision on the application.