arun.m:
Hi Mairali,
The Bangalore consul keeps informing me that thy are waiting for the German office to revert. What is surprising is that the bangalore consul cnt even tell if the verification for my application has been completed or not.
If the verification is pending, nothing would have been sent to the German office. Then, what revert is the bangalore office waiting for? They are just ensuring that the applicants keep going around in circles, when they themselves dont know anything. Their ignorance and vague communication just keeps adding to the applicant's woes. I am personallly visiting the bangalore consul today. Will keep the forum posted.
Regards
Exactly arun!
I am unaware of the administration system in Bangalore. However in Mumbai this is they system.
There are in all 4 parties involved.
1. Visa Section- This is the place where one has to submit the visa application. As explained by an officer in ABH in Germany, Visa section directly communicates with ABH in Germany. It is the authority to grant the final visa.
2. Consulate General- This is the place in Mumbai which is responsible for carrying out the verification of documents. So once the applicant submits the documents, if the Visa Section and ABH think that verification is required then they assign such task to the Consulate General office. Consulate General in turn asks for verification fees from the applicant and carries out the verification through an external agency. After verification, consulate general office sends the report to the visa section and visa section sends the report to the ABH. After verification is over, the role of Consulate General office gets over.
3.Verification agency- This is an external agency that carries out the verification and sends the report to the consulate general. It has nothing to do with the visa section.
4. ABH- ABH is the office in Germany, which communicates only with Visa section.
Surprisingly in my case, 2 days before I received a call for approval, the Visa section said it is still in process. The consulate general office said the verification report has not yet been sent to the Visa Section. It shall be sent in this week. Now if the verification report had not been sent to the Visa Section, then how come the report reached the ABH through the Visa Section and that too within 2 days and came back too with the approval on ABH.???!!! AND, further, I received an approval on Wednesday, which is a holiday in ABH in Germany for our city. On tuesday when we called, they said report will be sent tomorrow!
I am still baffled and unable to understand what exactly happened!