Dear trust7 members,

within the last 15 years I had to do with many different German Embassies and Consulate worldwide. Not directly but because of visa/work permit applications of my own employees and of applicants from my clients.

In the first days of the so called ‚Green Card‘ in 2000 this was a kind of game of luck if the involved parts ever heard about the German programs for highly skilled people or not, but over the years it got better and better.

With the start of the Blue Card we got relatively clear rules, that one could check his chances to get a work permit ahead of planning his career and the whole process is quite simple as soon as one gets a job offer by a German company.

Now it is possible to take the whole family from the beginning and the permissions to work for a spouse are very liberally.

Nevertheless it is still a matter of good luck or bad luck how long it takes to get the visa and much depends on the competency, efficiency and the willingness to help of the Authorities.

At the moment I am experiencing the worst case of this in 15 years! I have two active applications for new employees at the German Embassy in Tehran, Iran and I am really angry, because we are waiting for the work permit approval since June! One we got in October, the second one is still pending!

My lawyer told me, that she never faced such a case before, too.

Please share your own experiences, good or bad, that we can get an overview of the current situation.

Thanks

Detlef