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Hi, have you gotten your visa or crossed over to germany. I rememberedwe did our visa interview last year December.

I only got a documents verification completion mail in march after the the lawyer came for verification in February. Also, got my original documents back in march ending some days before Nigeria lockdown. I just want to know if they have start issuing visa to anyone after the uplifting of lockdown. Thanks

Adedamola92:
Good evening guys,
Had my interview yesterday and it went well. First ensure you arrange all the documents according to the order that is on the checklist. Although Paulonius will want you to arrange it his way, but it's a lot easier once you have already arranged it according to the checklist.
I got to the embassy around 6:30am, I was allowed in 15 minutes later . My invitation email printout was stamped, I took my sit and waited to be attended to. 8:15am, Paulonius attended to me and told me to arrange my docs according to his own order which isn't far away from the way it is on the checklist. This process took about 20mins because he was deliberately wasting time and trying to assert his authority. Once I was done, I proceeded into the embassy to eventually meet the interviewer.
She asked me if I had both the document verification and the visa application fee and I said yes. She then told me to rearrange my docs according to her checklist, she scanned my passport photograph and that of my spouse. She told me to re-sign my application form and write Lagos as the "Place" and yesterday's date as the "Date" did this for both application forms, my questionnaires and the data protection forms (she gave me this form there).


She asked for my Spouse's phone number, email, date of birth, the city my spouse resides and what spouse does. She asked if my spouse is on scholarship or not, I told her my spouse is not on scholarship. This was when she told me I will only need to pay for application fee and not the � verification fee. I was confused, I brought out my spouse's work contract (this was part of many supplementary documents that I went with), she took the contract to her superior and came back to tell me that I still don't need to pay the document verification fee. I asked her if I could ask her a question and she smiled and told me to go ahead. I asked why I wouldn't need to pay, she said it's because my spouse is a Researcher (PhD student) so I don't need to pay. We then proceeded to interview questions, in my mind I was like (what questions again o). I can't remember the whole questions she asked, but I will drop some.
How old is your spouse?
Where was your spouse born?
Spouse's date of birth?
What date did your spouse agree to start dating or vis a vis?
Were you friends before you started dating?
What year did your spouse first traveled to ��?
How long has your spouse's parent know about you?
Have you been to Germany before?
Have you been convicted before?
Has either of you been married before?
How long have you been dating?
How long have you been married?
What does your spouse do?
Where does your spouse work?
How long has your spouse been residing in Germany?
What is your spouse's home address?
When did the actual marriage take place?
How often do you see?
Have you at any point stayed together in the same house? If yes, from when to when (date /month).
When was the last time you saw your spouse?
Where was the last time you saw your spouse?
How much does your spouse earn? (exact figure).
How many times have you been together? 100? 350? Over 500 times?
Do you stay alone?
Are you working?
What qualifications do you have?
What were you doing when you met your spouse ?
Describe in details how your first meeting was?
When your spouse came �, did he/she come home for the sake of the marriage?
How did the marriage proposal go?
Have you had your church marriage?
Do you speak German?
Do you have children that you will like to travel with?
Where did your engagement take place?
When did your engagement take place?
Where did your marriage take place?
She returned my passports to me and told me I will be contacted when it's needed. She has another checklist where she ticked the docs I provided and told me to sign. She created a file on which she wrote my name , where she kept my original documents,my pre-paid envelope and the copies of the documents I submitted.

Ps. She requested for 6 pictures from the engagement and the wedding plus all the old pictures we had, she ended up collecting 6 engagement pictures and 3 wedding pictures plus all old pictures. She was particular about pictures that show you and your spouse, you, your spouse with witnesses.
Also ensure you use the new application form on the website, it makes the whole process easy.

The entry and exit stamp is important, it helps you answer questions on duration and the last time you saw to avoid contradiction.

The original Proof of Residence of your spouse is required.


If I remember more, I will update accordingly.


Wishing you guys Goodluck and all the best to Us.

Hi, have you gotten your visa or crossed over to germany. I rememberedwe did our visa interview last year December.

I only got a documents verification completion mail in march after the the lawyer came for verification in February. Also, got my original documents back in march ending some days before Nigeria lockdown. I just want to know if they have start issuing visa to anyone after the uplifting of lockdown. Thanks.

folkab4real:
@Adedamola92 how was your family reunion interview today. Hope it went well. Please i also have a family reunion interview on tge 12th if this month, any tip and what were you asked. Thank

Adedamola92:
Update : I got an email from the embassy sequel to my interview that I should make available 150k for document verification on or before a specific date next month.

Hi @Adedamola92, i just to enquire if the lawyer from embassy has contacted you for your data verification. And it so how was it. Thanks for your usual response

knogbu:
WAAAAAT!
you got diff dates for all members of your family. I am in this category too and I wrote them to inform them but they wont reply.
I am confused about the checklist (document requirements) for kids. Pls which checklist applies to them?
Is it same requirements for the spouse?

This is the checklist for child

https://nigeria.diplo.de/blob/2191572/fc1451b8cdfd6d9f814f6b49276468fd/checklist-kindernachzug-data.pdf

knogbu:
when did you apply?

Hi guys,
I and my two kids applied on the 4th of may this year, and we got separate date for interview for 12th, 16th and 17th of December. I had mine on the 12th, it went quite well. I arrived the embassy at around 5:50am, although i left home using uber around 5 am because I dont want traffic to be an excuse for lateness. As i got there, i was told to go and stay at the motor park and come back by 6: 30am since my interview is 7am. I went to pray at a mosque in the motir park keeping my things with me because those people who came for USA interview were much about 150 and more.

I returned to the embassy around 6:30 and was told to stay beside the embassy, i and other people who also came for the interview were allowed in at about 6: 47am.

The security stamped our email invites printout and wrote time on it. We all were sited and Mr Paulinos came in at 7am. All phone were switched of before we came in and only small purse was allowed in with files, no extra baggage. Thankfully, Mr Paulinos was in a good mood.

We were about 25 that came for interview that day. Mr Paulinos first called those on visiting visa to go in, then he called those for work permit, he dictated how they should arrange their documents. A work permit guy was not with his prepaid courier, and went out to get one at the motor park without Mr paulinos written permission, he got a bit angry but later considered him by making his time of arrival afresh thereby writing a new time of arrival on his printout.

We for reunion were called in twos to rearrange our documents. I arranged according to how it was on the website and as suggested by @Adedamola92. I was asked if i had my 180k i.e 30k for visa and 150k for document verification by Mr Paulinos, because if i dont have it and have entered i will not be allowed to go out forany transaction except i amgoing home. I had my money with me, I entered, submitted my phone in a locked cubicle, security checked me and i entered the interview section.

I waited for my turn. My husband was for blue card, but have not left so i took his visa page, employment contract as his resident permit and proof of living in Germany because he just got his visa in November and leaving soon. My document was checked but i didnt put affidavit of spinsterhood because i thought my marriage certificate will suffice but no they said since i was not married before that the head of my family(father) should do the affidavit and i must bring it within 2weeks but i told them i would bring it on monday since i am coming with my kid on monday, and it was allowed.

My documents were checked again,
i was asked what my husband name is,
where he lives,
where he was born,
who take financial responsibility of the house,
how much he earns,
how long have we been living together,
How many wife he has (since we used an islamic marriage certificate and sworn affidavite of marriage).
How many kids we have.
And some other question i might not remember now.

I did my biometric capture, paid 30k for visa and 150k for document verification, i was given receipt and told to make two copies each for the kids and bring it with the original when coming for the kids interview since that 150k will be used for the three of us. I left around 11: 28 am.

Note : all document should be three i.e the original and two other copies except where specified otherwise. Also take all document you feel might be a supporting document, they will never send you back for it, least is they will say you it doesnt need.

Adedamola92:
Good evening guys,
Had my interview yesterday and it went well. First ensure you arrange all the documents according to the order that is on the checklist. Although Paulonius will want you to arrange it his way, but it's a lot easier once you have already arranged it according to the checklist.
I got to the embassy around 6:30am, I was allowed in 15 minutes later . My invitation email printout was stamped, I took my sit and waited to be attended to. 8:15am, Paulonius attended to me and told me to arrange my docs according to his own order which isn't far away from the way it is on the checklist. This process took about 20mins because he was deliberately wasting time and trying to assert his authority. Once I was done, I proceeded into the embassy to eventually meet the interviewer.
She asked me if I had both the document verification and the visa application fee and I said yes. She then told me to rearrange my docs according to her checklist, she scanned my passport photograph and that of my spouse. She told me to re-sign my application form and write Lagos as the "Place" and yesterday's date as the "Date" did this for both application forms, my questionnaires and the data protection forms (she gave me this form there).


She asked for my Spouse's phone number, email, date of birth, the city my spouse resides and what spouse does. She asked if my spouse is on scholarship or not, I told her my spouse is not on scholarship. This was when she told me I will only need to pay for application fee and not the � verification fee. I was confused, I brought out my spouse's work contract (this was part of many supplementary documents that I went with), she took the contract to her superior and came back to tell me that I still don't need to pay the document verification fee. I asked her if I could ask her a question and she smiled and told me to go ahead. I asked why I wouldn't need to pay, she said it's because my spouse is a Researcher (PhD student) so I don't need to pay. We then proceeded to interview questions, in my mind I was like (what questions again o). I can't remember the whole questions she asked, but I will drop some.
How old is your spouse?
Where was your spouse born?
Spouse's date of birth?
What date did your spouse agree to start dating or vis a vis?
Were you friends before you started dating?
What year did your spouse first traveled to ��?
How long has your spouse's parent know about you?
Have you been to Germany before?
Have you been convicted before?
Has either of you been married before?
How long have you been dating?
How long have you been married?
What does your spouse do?
Where does your spouse work?
How long has your spouse been residing in Germany?
What is your spouse's home address?
When did the actual marriage take place?
How often do you see?
Have you at any point stayed together in the same house? If yes, from when to when (date /month).
When was the last time you saw your spouse?
Where was the last time you saw your spouse?
How much does your spouse earn? (exact figure).
How many times have you been together? 100? 350? Over 500 times?
Do you stay alone?
Are you working?
What qualifications do you have?
What were you doing when you met your spouse ?
Describe in details how your first meeting was?
When your spouse came �, did he/she come home for the sake of the marriage?
How did the marriage proposal go?
Have you had your church marriage?
Do you speak German?
Do you have children that you will like to travel with?
Where did your engagement take place?
When did your engagement take place?
Where did your marriage take place?
She returned my passports to me and told me I will be contacted when it's needed. She has another checklist where she ticked the docs I provided and told me to sign. She created a file on which she wrote my name , where she kept my original documents,my pre-paid envelope and the copies of the documents I submitted.

Ps. She requested for 6 pictures from the engagement and the wedding plus all the old pictures we had, she ended up collecting 6 engagement pictures and 3 wedding pictures plus all old pictures. She was particular about pictures that show you and your spouse, you, your spouse with witnesses.
Also ensure you use the new application form on the website, it makes the whole process easy.

The entry and exit stamp is important, it helps you answer questions on duration and the last time you saw to avoid contradiction.

The original Proof of Residence of your spouse is required.


If I remember more, I will update accordingly.


Wishing you guys Goodluck and all the best to Us.

Thank you so much for the feedback.

Adedamola92:
I applied for the family renunion visa in May, 5th to be precise and I got an interview date for December 5th. I have few questions however for people that have gone through this process or have a know how of how it works.
How long after the interview will the visa be issued?
Is Proof of residence of the spouse living in Germany the same as "Meldebescheinigung"?
What did your spouse use as proof of residence? Also, does the proof of residence need to be in original?

@Adedamola92 how was your family reunion interview today. Hope it went well. Please i also have a family reunion interview on tge 12th if this month, any tip and what were you asked. Thank

knogbu:
when did you apply?

I applied on the 4th of may

@Adedamola92 how was your family reunion interview today. Hope it went well. Please i also have a family reunion interview on tge 12th if this month, any tip and what were you asked. Thanks

knogbu:
duration before getting the visa is case dependent. the wife of my colleague got her visa after 2 weeks of interview. Seen others who waited 6 - 8 months. However, the normal procedure is that a lawyer visits any of your referees or even you to obtain infomation about you. So make sure you use referees that will easily be located. Of course, proof of resisdence is very important so also your spouse income. Normally, after your interview, they will invite your spouse to show these docs (accomodation, bank account or work contract, etc) before a decision is taken for your case. Interview questions centres mainly on finding out if you have basic german knowledge and informatin about your spouse. Its important that you remember how u and when you met him, etc. On the other hand, they may ask you for the docs and the interviews ends like that. Good luck and also surf the internet for other people experiences

Please i will like to hear feed back from you. I also have family reunion interview too on 12th of this december. All the best.

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