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Hi,

Congratulations on getting your Visa...Please i have some couple of questions regarding your timeline.
1. Did you already apply for the blue card at the ABH as back as November 2022. You mentioned the transition from student visa to Blue card started since then.

2. If (1) is yes. Did you get a residence permit or a fiktion between November 22 and February, 23 before you contacted ABH in February for the status of your family reunion application.

3. From which city did you apply for your Blue Card/Work Permit?

4. For someone who currently underwent a biometric capturing for Blue card application (Transition from Student to Blue card) and was issued a Fiktionbescheinigung on the same day attached to the company (work started already) and the person also has family reunion application waitng for ABH to contact. Would this person has to wait for the residence card to be issued before they can process the family reunion application or ABH is good to go as soon as the status change on the system?. I asked this question because collection of residence permit card now takes longer time especially in big city. (Please anyone with this knowledge can also answer)

Best regards.

dobeespen:
Hi Everyone,

I had been observing from afar for about 6 months now and just reading comments so that I could know what to expect for my husband's visa process. Here's a timeline of how my husband's visa application process went:

September 2021: Applied for appointment date (he was just my fiance then so you don't have to wait till you're married to book for a date as I read recently)
October 2022: Got interview date
November 2022: Had interview. Interviewer told him that the verification and A1 certificate is not necessary. i think this is because at the time my application to transition from student visa to blue card was still pending and he mentioned to them that I had applied for a blue card. The interviewer told him to bring back older pictures of us LOL, which he also submitted in November.

We didn't hear anything from either embassy or ABH between November and February. I wrote ABH in February to ask for a status update and they said I had to wait for my resident permit to be issued before they can continue with my husband's application. In the meantime, the salary requirement for blue card increased in 2023 and I had to switch from a blue card application to a resident permit for employment purposes.

March 14, 2023: Had interview to change my resident status from student to worker. I was told they will not process my husband's visa until I have physically picked up the permit, which took another 6 weeks.

April 26, 2023: Picked up resident permit

May 4: Got a letter from the ABH that some documents were not properly filled. So I filled them correctly and sent it back that same May 4.

After a week later, I called the embassy and asked for an update since i did not hear anything from the ABH. They said I have to wait and the lady I spoke to wasn't very nice anyway. i sent an email as well after my call asking for an update.

May 16: Got the email to submit passport, travel insurance and travel dates.

May 18: Submitted all documents.

May 26: Got passport back with visa and all documents.

His travel date is not until August since we only had the legal wedding last year, so we plan to do the church wedding before we both leave for Germany. All we had to do was submit travel insurance and ticket itinerary and made sure they matched, and they issued his visa to commence on his exact day of exit from Nigeria.

Gosh the whole anxiety concerning this process is something else, I was the one with the anxiety and my husband was chill the whole time LOL.I pray everyone who is waiting will be granted their visa cause this thing is not easy.