Hi Mirali,
 It was a futile trip down to the German embassy yesterday, considering that I took off couple of hrs from office to go there. The receptionist asked me to join the queue, which was waitin for thr collection. Once my turn came, I inquired about my application status.Â
 The lady didnt seem too happy tht her simple n straight forward job got interrupted by my query. She was irritated from that moment on and after checking on the system, informed me that the application is still in process. That we are awaiting the revert from the German office. After hearing her out, i told her that my wife is in Germany and when shez checked with the Alien's office there, she is getting the same reply - tht thy are awaiting the verification details from the Indian office.Â
 She wasnt in the mood to understand my statement and repeated the same thing in an even rude tone.... "y dont u check with the German office?". I patiently replied that my wife is doing that regularly and we hv no idea of where the applications is, if its moving or is it stuck. This same to n fro statements were repeated 3 times by her.Â
Then whn she realised that i am not leaving and the line for collection is getting longer, she made the efforts to look into the system and asked did u submit the  verification fees? What kind of question is that!!!! How cn i submit the certis and not the fee? Thatz when she realised that I submitted my educational certis on 26th April. She used that date to push her argument that i need to wait as its just been a month since i applied. I replied that my initial application was made on 18th Feb,13. She wasnt willing to listen n told that since u submitted the certis on 26th April, i need to wait more.Â
I then requested her if i could talk to a senior officer or something. She didnt agree to any of that and when i persisted, she gave me an email id that i could write to. I will be writing to them shortly and after this post.Â
Overall, it seems that i need to wait another 10-12 weeks from 26th April going by the attitude of the officer yesterday. What is ridiculous is that i still dont know if the verification of my documents submmitted on 18th Feb is completed or not!!!!!
@ Mirali - you were really lucky that they called you on 19th Feb for additional doc n fees, post your applciation. I got the same call on 22nd April, though my application was made on 18th Feb.
Going by all this, I think its gonna take an act of God for my case to go thru!!!!
Regards