Hi all,
I would like to thank you for the works you have been doing. This is such an amazing forum with interesting and helpful information.
Recently I've been selected by a company in Stuttgart to join an fellowship program there for a year. At the moment I'm preparing documents for the visa application, category: long-term national visa for professional training. At the same time, the company, which has had experiences with the process since this is the 3rd time they doing the program, has also applied for the ZAV document.
However, yesterday I've received an email from the company saying that at the moment, they have not yet received a response from ZAV (it has been 3 weeks since they applied). The reason they mentioned is that because this might due to some labor rights changes and the company had to apply for the document differetly in comparison with what they did the last two years. In short, they have no clue when the document will be ready.
As I have already booked an appointment with the German Consulate in Hanoi on 03rd of August, I am worrying that the ZAV document will still not be ready by then.
So, with the situation mentioned above, below are my questions:
- Processing time for ZAV pre-approval
Based on your experiences, would you kindly let me know how long would it take to have this document? And more importantly, what are the chances for me to get it before my appointment with the embassy?
- How to explain to the embassy without the ZAV pre-approval (to be added later)?
As it is extremely hard to book an appointment at the embassy (which I find really ridiculous and frustrating), would it be possible for me to show up at the appointment, without the ZAV document and convince them to hold my application until I have the document and add the ZAV document later?
I'm not sure how I could convince them to do so but honestly speaking, this is the only way for me to have a hope to get a visa with the ZAV document arriving late as I won't be able to book another appointment.
Thank you so much for your time, it would be much appriciate if someone could give me an advice on what to do at the moment since I'm out of ideas.
Sincerely,
Vu