Dear friends

I am quite new to this forums and want to explain the situation of one of my friends. He has Daueraufenthalt-EG and his wife worked for 2 years and has quit the job as she was pregnant. All this time she had her own work permit of the employer and now that she has quit the job so she has to convert to dependent visa. When they went to ABH they were told that they need to verify marriage certificate before they can issue a dependent visa.

She was already in Germany since more than 5 years, she studied here and worked for 2 years. They got married 2 years ago and its strange that inspite of paying taxes during her job for 2 years(both she and her husband have tax class 4 and they issued these tax class as they were married and both were working) ABH now want to verify the marriage certificate and they sent the application to German embassy, Newdelhi.

Does someone know how long the process might take. As she was pregnant ABH said that they will write this in the application to German embassy,New delhi to make the marriage verification process faster and it seems they spoke very well(she being pregnant). As her residence permit will expire shortly (the one which she had during her job time) so can anyone suggest for a fast process in this matter??

not to worry about the visa as it will be extended. Regarding marriage verification, let them do if they want but dont pay any money for doing the verification. If they insist then consult a lawyer. This has now become a big business to earn money for the consulates.

thanks raj for the reply but my friend does not have a Rechtschutzversicherung so going to the lawyer would cost money. In his case how does the process will continue?

Does the german embassy in delhi contacts the local authority which has issued the marriage certificate..do you have an idea how long would normally the verification process take?

ooh no. the consulate will hire a private detective firm to do that and will want your friend to pay for the services if the partner was still in india. I dont know what will be the case now. Normally it takes upto 2 months for them to do the verification