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west21:
Please guys, compared to Ireland is studying in Germany cheaper?

It depends on if you gained admission to a uni that charges no tuition in Germany. You only need a blocked account of about 4million.
Fees are paid in most schools in Ireland. and the least I think about 8,000 euros

Also if you don't speak the language, it might be difficult to get a foothold as soon as you arrive Germany and try to find a Job. The people are a bit weird here to be honest.

Long story short. its probably cheaper to live and study in Germany but LEARN THE LANGUAGE OOOO IT IS COMPLUSORY!!

Good day guys,

Trust this meets you well?

Is there anyone here who is in Dortmund?

Would need your advice on a few things!

Onyi2728:
Hello Everyone,
I have an observation when I arrived here.
The number of refugeeeeeeeeeees from TOGO, GAMBIA, SUDAN, SYRIA, TURKEY, GHANA and other African countries is alarming.
I mean what is this I heard they are even given social welfare of 450 euros and are allowed to take integration and language courses for free! Na me wan come dey pay for everything as I no be refugee

MEhn this Germany will cast las las. when meaningful Nigerians with good qualifications are struggling to come to the country legally. Yet they make it a pain.

Na them sabi.

Brace yourself guys, no one seems to be smiling in this place. abi na the cold?? Ah

Hmmm. Which city u dey?

Sanny21:
What school if I may ask

Gisma Business school

evergreen9:
AH! I already funded the initial required amount of 8640 euros, are u saying my money don enta one chance with coracle?

Well everyone has different issues, mine two three days to get confirmation letter

[quote author=Sanny21 post=82384985]I did not say because it's tution free I said due to it's international.. okkay thanks bro

Sanny21:
What school if I may ask

what school is yours plss??

[quote author=johnaolaniran post=82387667]"It's cheaper when compared to other developed countries like...
Okk..thanks bro

ExcelDeBaron:
God bless you. Because they told me I can't transfer more than 8,000 in Euro once. I have 5 more questions for you.

(1) Did you make the transfer from your mobile app yourself or you went into the bank to authorize it?

(2) Was the transfer simultaneously i.e 2945 immediately after 7500 or you waited for Fintiba to confirm the 7500 before you sent the 2945?

(3) What were the exact charges? Am aware its dependent on the prevalent exchange rate but just give me an estimate.

(4) Where did the bank remove their charges? Your Naira or Euro account?

(5) How long did it take Fintiba to confirm it?

Please answer as asked because it will help me make lot of decisions. I really appreciate baba mi. God bless you amen.

First of all, I converted the whole naira using a mallam, he joined me at the bank. Bank verified the euros he brought.
Then, I Deposited the euro into my domi account first,
Then I made bank transfer to the mallam's naira account.

To your questions,

1. I went to bank to make the transfer . "ensure to go with a printed copy of block account details.

2. I waited for Fintiba to confirm that they have received the payment before sending the remaining, took 48hours plus.

3. The Charges they deducted is in the attached image I uploaded earlier with respect to the two transfer.
....as at the time of transfer, I bought 1euro at 409 frm mallam. So, add the charges from the image and do d maths

4. From my euro domi account( I added extra fund to the money)

5. 48hours plus ( time will depend on how fast ur bank process the payment as well)

Goodluck

djlaqua91:
Oluwa Don do am

AM alert!

AL July 4
AD August 28
Sent funding confirmation September 13
AM September 20
Uni Potsdam

I pray all others awaiting AL, AD, AM get theirs. Thank you all.

I'm hoping to start my processing in the same school. almost done with my NYSC. can I always contact you bro? just for the sake of first class information. PM pls

kruzzroboh:
what school is yours plss??

EU business school Munich

walexy06:
auslaenderbehoerde@stadtweimar.de
Or you follow this link
https://www.auslaenderaemter.de/info/info_foreigners_authority_in_weimar.php

Thanks so much brother

Pls guys, am yet to receive AM
I did my interview on the 26th of August
Albert Ludwig University of freiburg..
Sent my block account confirmation on the 27th
I don't know should i resend the block account confirmation..
Any information will be helpful thanks

Donfal80:
For sure, it was. I did colored photocopies of my credentials and I certified them. There are instances whereby I reprint the already certified copies i scanned on my PC and it was accepted though in colored oo.

Thanks, thanks and thanks again.

Pls has any Nigerian that studied or worked in Benin and has a valid resident permit been able to have a successful student visa interview and got visa from the German embassy at Cotonou?
Is just the resident permit enough to go for the interview or other documents are also required?
Lastly, is funding compulsory before the interview it can be done after?

Pls, I need urgent answers, thanks

How are the questions like please

Fabricio07:
Had my interview today
TRANSCRIPT
I arrived at the embassy with my umbrella and was checked it immediately at 6:45.
I was the only person for students visa at that moment.
A fairly old and tall man with a very calm demeanor was doing the work of the famous Mr Paulinus so I was thinking; Mr Paulinus is too nice and gentle o judging from the way he was arranging the documents of the other Schengen visa applicants.
Soon, two other people joined me and he came over to us.
Called out the checklist, i was easily following him because I already followed the arrangement advice here.
The other guys weren't as fast, then he asked me to go get another copy of the admission letter. (I followed the advice that says you don't need the original if you didn't receive it by post.. I was wrong)
It was while I was on it that they told me Paulinus traveled and that man is deputising for him.
When I returned, I helped others to arrange Theirs and he checked us in.
I was interviewed by the friendly, smiling lady on dreads. Infact she was the only VO on duty today and the students are not much.
It was more like an informal discussion.

V.O: hand me your documents please (with a great smile and positive energy).
VO: Completes the preliminary session, gives me the payment receipt for visa fee of N29,500.
Fund your Fintiba and send me the confirmation to this email.

VO: Masters or Bsc? why Chemistry? Why Germany? Why not Nigeria? Why not USA or UK? Where is your school located? BSc thesis? Since you want to be a lecturer, you should hopefully do your PHD at once. Hopefully you get scholarship for that.
I was just saying yes Ma, I pray so too while I smile and nod my head like agama lizard.
VO: what do you know about Germany geographically, economically, politically? What position was the president occupying before he became the president? What is his political party? what is the longest River in Germany? What is the capital of Germany?
All these I answered correctly, then she asked, what is the size of the river? I said I don't know.
She told me..800 and something
�.
VO: do you have any family in Germany?
Me: yes, a family friend and a school mate who is also schooling in this same school I am headed to. ( Freie University Berlin, by the way)

Then she gave me a Chemistry test...3 questions which I am very sure I answered 2 correctly.
VO: any questions for me?
Me: No ma!
VO: Ok, that will be all, we will communicate to you through the email.
Me: Thank you very Ma. Have a nice day.

I pray that God will meet all of us in our points of need in this German waka.

Thanks to all the contributors on this wonderful Nairaland family.

Please contact me I am going to GISMA too MSc pm, this summer as well!

Contact me at my email juzzywezzy at gmail dot com

@kruzzroboh

okocha170:
I'm hoping to start my processing in the same school. almost done with my NYSC. can I always contact you bro? just for the sake of first class information. PM pls

Sure no problem

JosephAdeoba:
. READ THIS NOTE:: THIS IS NOT MY POST BUT I GOT IT ON THIS THREAD AS WELL. /b]This important information is for all winter semester applicants and future ones that will be using Verpflichtungserklarung fur studium (Sponsorship Letter, sl), please read carefully all that is involved using sl and how the embassy operates with it.[b]

Firstly, I want to let you know that using a Verpflichtungserklarung fur studium does not guarantee the issuance of student visa (I don’t care where you will be getting it from whether issued by a family, an acquaintance, or you paid), you stand the same chance as every other applicant using Blocked account. If you are using sl, you can still be rejected on the basis that your sponsor is not capable. The rejection is always in this form from the embassy.

“Your secured subsistence cost is not ensured in Germany”
“There are doubts regarding your secured subsistence cost in Germany”

Now I know you want to ask me why the office in Germany gave your sponsor the letter if he wasn’t capable to sponsor you in the first place. I want you to know that different cities/town in Germany have their own criteria in giving out the sl. Let’s take a case like the Auslanderbehorde in Munich, if your sponsor is living in Munich which is the most expensive city in Germany, as of September 2018, your sponsor must be earning 1,880 Euro monthly before tax to sponsor 1 person if he is single (and must be earning 2,610 Euro to sponsor 2 people), if he has a kid living with him or married without kid, he must be earning 2,300 Euro monthly before tax to sponsor 1 person (and must be earning 3,040 Euro to sponsor 2 people), if he is married with a kid, he must be earning 2,540 Euro monthly before tax to sponsor 1 person (and must be earning 3,270 Euro to sponsor 2 people), if he is married with 2 kids, he must be earning 2,780 Euro monthly before tax to sponsor 1 person (and must be earning 3,510 Euro to sponsor 2 people). This is the breakdown of how Munich checks your sponsor to see his/her eligibility to sponsor you. So different cities got its own breakdown of how much your sponsor must be earning monthly to sponsor you. Normally, after all monthly tax, bills and have been deducted from his monthly salary, he must have 720 or 730 Euro left, that’s how they do it. You can see it equates to the amount of blocked account (BA) to be dispensed to you monthly if you are using BA.

Now, some cities issues this letter even without your sponsor not being capable or not earning that stipulated amount and that is where you start having issues with the foreigners office of the city you are heading to and definitely with the embassy. A city I know that gives sponsors the sl without the sponsor being capable is pforzheim, Germany. This city dishes out the letters anyhow and most of the letters I have seen that comes from pforzheim always ended up being rejected by the embassy. Part of the criteria generally in Germany in issuing this sl is that your sponsor must hold a Permanent Residence permit or Temporary residence permit or must be a German citizen or EU citizen to sponsor you (This is the only residence titles your sponsor must have to be issued the sl). Now there is what they call fiktionbeschenigung (fiction certificate), this is the permit they give people living in Germany that applied for a residence permit and the foreigners office has not yet decided on the residence permit whether to issue the applicant or not, so they give the person a fiktionbeschenigung, this person can work with it pending the time they decide on his/her RP. This person is not allowed to stand as a sponsor which is clearly stated by most cities in Germany but pforzheim can give people with a fiktionbeschenigung (that’s how bad pforzheim is), now imagine you are applying to another city with this sl signed by a person with a fiktionbeschenigung, that’s auto rejection.

Let me talk about Hannover city, now Hannover has one of the strictest foreigners’ office in Germany, and the place is always filled up. If your sl is coming from any city in Germany, whether from Munich, Hamburg, and so on, just know that Hannover will write your sponsor through postal mail to send some documents including his/her 3 month payslips to check the creditworthiness of the sl, Hannover will now make their own calculations to see if your sponsor is really capable (they always do this because they know some cities are not strict with the letter and due to fluctuating credit-rating of different cities), after making their own calculations and they see your sponsor does not meet up their criteria, then sorry is your case, even if your sponsor is a white German or White EU citizen, they will write him, and if your sponsor doesn’t get the letter Hannover sent him asking for his docs, that’s not their problem, and they wont write another one, so your sponsor must have a working mail box. You might want to ask how they will know your sponsor’s address, your sponsors address will be asked when filling the sl. So I advise you all, please if your letter is coming from another city and you are going to Hannover, don’t try it, you will be disappointed, the best is for your sl to come from Hannover if you are heading to hannover, you wont even have issues, that’s auto acceptance. Hannover is the only city I know that writes sponsors to send documents and this is how to verify sl issued from other cities.

Furthermore, there is a particular number of people a person can sponsor (I don’t the exact number) but let me give you a real life case that happened summer 2018 and winter 2018. There is this German-Nigerian man in Germany, he own a company so he is earning so much money to even sponsor 40 students, in summer 2018, he sponsored about 7 people and they made it to Germany. In winter 2018, he gave about 11 people sl again, and embassy rejected all of the 11 people. Why? Because there is a rule of how many people you can sponsor. Why did they give him in the office in Germany since he was already sponsoring 7 people? The answer is he went to another city to get the sl. Yes, your sponsor can leave his residence city and go to another city to get the sl.

If your sponsor is living in Berlin, Berlin has 2 offices where this sl is issued from, there is one for long term (student, family reunioun and so on) and there is office for short term (visiting, tourism and so on.)
Also, the embassy are not the ones that verifies sl, embassy send your sl to the city you are heading to in Germany and the city does the verification, now the embassy can still decide whether to give you the visa or not, meaning even if your foreigners office in Germany approves your visa, embassy can still reject you for different reasons. They might say “they doubt your indicated purpose of trip” they have their own convictions are you cant sue or fight them.

I hope I have stated all what prospective applicant that wants to use sl needs to know. And please and please, don’t pay anybody you don’t know personally for sl, I read part 4 of this thread where a guy was scammed 400k, a lot of scammers in town now cause they know people are desperate to leave Nigeria, and there are scammers in Germany too, if you get scammed, you get scammed for life, you cant hold anybody, and even if you got the sl and the embassy rejects you based on any reason, then the money you paid is gone.
This is my 2 cents. BE WISE and BE SHARP!!!! [/b]A lot of people are crying in one corner now for this.[b]
I read a post some pages back where one Guy was saying he has 2 million naira and he can’t raise the remaining 1.6 million for the blocked account. Dude if you are reading this, you better hustle for that complete money. I have a friend that had to stay back for a year in Nigeria to get the complete blocked account money and now he is in DE.

NB: sl can be handwritten (filled with pen) or typed-written. sl from Munich is always handwritten except for the official remark, date of entry, employer of your sponsor, and date of issuance of the sl, all these I mentioned are always typed. To get a sample of sl and how it looks like, type “Verpflichtungserklarung” on google, facebook or Instagram, you will see samples.
And please when you get your sl, before the sponsor sends the original by post mail, always request for the softcopy and check that your details (Full name, passport number, date of birth, purpose of stay in Germany) is correct.

TCHUSS!

Can someone from another EU country Sponsor you?

stevebankz:
Can someone from another EU country Sponsor you?

No. Your sponsor must be living and legally working in Germany and there's a minimum amount he must be earning before he is eligible for sponsorship.

Pls Who has Used their 100L Result/Transcripts to apply For Undergraduate studies,.. Did you Include your Admission Letter or Just the 100L level result will do?

Onyi2728:
Hello Everyone,
I have an observation when I arrived here.
The number of refugeeeeeeeeeees from TOGO, GAMBIA, SUDAN, SYRIA, TURKEY, GHANA and other African countries is alarming.
I mean what is this I heard they are even given social welfare of 450 euros and are allowed to take integration and language courses for free! Na me wan come dey pay for everything as I no be refugee

MEhn this Germany will cast las las. when meaningful Nigerians with good qualifications are struggling to come to the country legally. Yet they make it a pain.

Na them sabi.

Brace yourself guys, no one seems to be smiling in this place. abi na the cold?? Ah

Which city u dey?

Bros, please abeg help us modify your previous quote....It is too informed to quote with just a statement. Let's do this to manage space on this thread.

stevebankz:
Can someone from another EU country Sponsor you?

Philfit:
Amen bro. Wish you the same. Were you the guy on dreads?

No..I think that guy came for normal Schengen visa.

djlaqua91:
How long does the cash take to arrive Europe from naija acc or its by mastercard ?

It arrives in the other account the next day. Except on weekends.
You can use a naija account that has MasterCard.

Vinclass:
Pls guys, am yet to receive AM
I did my interview on the 26th of August
Albert Ludwig University of freiburg..
Sent my block account confirmation on the 27th
I don't know should i resend the block account confirmation..
Any information will be helpful thanks

Mine took approximately 6 weeks and a day after my interview which was on the 7th of August. 3 weeks and a day after top up which was done on the 28th of August so you can email your school's alien office and inquire about your visa status.

ShinaLe:
So when is it advisable to book for flight?

When they deliver your passport.
I just booked my flight today

oshotemi19:
Congratulations dear on this great achievement. I am happy for you and grateful to God to have been favoured as well. Go to DE and excel in all your endeavors.

Danke Bruder!

Hello Fam, my interview is coming up soon Oct 2nd, so I decided to top up my fintiba blocked account yesterday from 8640 to 10467€ at the moment, the new amount is reflecting in my account (10467) but am yet to get new blocking confirmation, is this normal? My first blocking confirmation didn’t take this long oo, as the money dey show, the confirmation follow. Those that have top up did you guys experience this too? I would love to know thanks.

My celebration is doubled....received the best birthday gift i could ever wish for...
AM alert my people.
I just received my approval email. Best of luck to those of us still awaiting for AD and AM. Good news i pray for you guys

Interview was: 26th of August ,
Block account confirmation 27th of August .
Albert Ludwig University of freiburg
M.Sc Geology
AM dropped today 20th August 2019.
Glory be to God
Thanks to everyone on this group
Am grateful

Vinclass:
My celebration is doubled....received the best birthday gift i could ever wish for...
AM alert my people.
I just received my approval email. Best of luck to those of us still awaiting for AD and AM. Good news i pray for you guys

Interview was: 26th of August ,
Block account confirmation 27th of August .
Albert Ludwig University of freiburg
M.Sc Geology
AM dropped today 20th August 2019.
Glory be to God
Thanks to everyone on this group
Am grateful

Congrats my brother