Thereality19:


I think it is exclusively for scholarship applicants.
I have seen another person claiming they got appointment through mail booking

Ifwal:


No, but someone did last week and was told to check back when international flights open.

fancyto:
I don't know how true this is, I heard from a source that once your appointment date interval lapses, which is within 4-6 weeks and you get no visa appointment date you should cancel and rebook.
But the big question is will it automatically cancel its self? If it automatically cancel itself and you rebook I think it safe that way.

GeneviveNnadi:
[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.

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GeneviveNnadi:


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.

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Ykhgu1:
On the Flip side the Universitäts can decide to cancel Summer 2021 semester. To enable them clear the back og. Then inform Consulate to interview Forigne students so that they can relocate to Deutschland between now and the Winter semester exams period. Or to interview and issue Visa to Forigne students whose country has open air space.

So that all of us are given between now and next year August to relocate to Deutschland. Then no application is accepted for Summer 2021that way they sacrifice Summer 2021to Covid19.

Sirmy:
NCAA Extends Ban On International Flights Till October https://www.nairaland.com/6005779/ncaa-extends-ban-international-flights

IOladiplenty:
For those that had appointment dates prior to the lock down and later got a cancellation mail from the embassy, the second paragraph of that cancellation mail read thus:

"As soon as the travel restrictions are lifted you will get a new appointment from the Consulate General. Therefore kindly refrain from appointment request as well as status enquiries."

1. As soon as the travel restrictions are lifted. Up until now, the travel restrictions are yet to be lifted!.

2. Therefore kindly refrain from appointment request as well as status enquiries!.

I hope this clears some doubts on here about new appointment dates given by the embassy.

Ifwal:


I just spoke with the consulate office, the lady said Student Visa application is on hold at the moment. I told her some people claimed to have received appointment, she said she doesn't know anything about it.. All she know is that the section is still closed.
So, you guys claiming you received AD, kindly send us screenshots oo.

IOladiplenty:
One needs to be mindful and careful about what we read here. This is not a time to be creating false alarm and giving false hopes.

justwise:


This long episode is unnecessary and will not change my stand on this.

Many of you going on about this campaign are so inconsiderate and to an extent out of touch with reality.

This is a global pandemic that has claimed thousands of lives and a lot of countries are managing the reopening carefully to avoid second wave or closing down again.

A city in Germany has to close down again as the infection rate spikes, the same in U.K, USA, Australia etc.

Schools can’t even guarantee you face to face campus lectures considering the number of students and the potential risks involved.

Irresponsible behaviour like this is one of the reasons why this virus will linger on for a very long time.

The govt and health experts know the right time to reopen the airport and not any of you here.

Somatohadidas1:
@Ifwal, chat me up

Ifwal:

I've replied your mail since yesterday.

abbeyleee2013:
Hello great minds!

Please I need a sample of Statement of Purpose required by Canada embassy.


E-mail ( abbeyleee2013@gmail.com)

Thanks

Energygod:



Go to the Canadian student thread then

Kizzygentle:

Can you share the link here?Thanks

clintonsparkz:
https://www.nairaland.com/5818588/canadian-student-visa-thread-part

willietex:
please house I'll like to know about nigerians in bremen, what is life like being a foreigner in bremen, student job, cost of living,etc