Hello,

After submitting the application in Consulate we received a letter telling there shall be Marraige Verification Dona and it takes at least 12 weeks.
Can some share the experience of applying for family reunion visa from German Consulate Chennai.

Thanks

This is common while applying german visa for spouse.
May be they will ask for german language certificate also once you marriage verification is done, so dont book your flight ticket before she/he gets visa cleared from consulate.

They would make a background check (which took 2 weeks in my case) and you have to pay the charges.
Ask the Ausländeramt in your city about the status when they send you a letter to meet them with all your documents.

Alles Gute!!

Thanks for the replies.

We already produced the german language certificate at the time of submiting the application. I hope this is the last hurdle. We already submitted the documents they asked for marriage verification. WIll it really takes 12 weeks for verification.
Experiences from who ever went throught this process really helps us to prepare.

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Welcome to the grind my friend... In my case too they said 8-12 weeks (Mumbai consulate). Its been 5 weeks already but neither anyone came for
verification nor have i received anything from the foreign office here (may be too soon to expect). Just wait it out.I dont know if they say 8-12 weeks if it really means that long because generally i had hoped that they would work with a margin. But it seems they mean it. I guess verifying the documents
and sending it in todays day and age takes a lot of time. So tighten your seat belt because the ride might be a jerky one .

How do you know if the verification is done by the Delhi embassy for all consulates? Why would they have so many embassies then?
That doesnt seem too credible to me. What is the source of your information????

You are an amazingly arrogant person. You claim to know of things which are probably known only by the insiders. And you ask people to trust you without revealing the source. Any prudent person will ask for source because Internet can be a source of misguidance. This is a forum for people who want to be helped and in a credible manner and to each his own level of credibility. Anyone can come here and write and claim to be anyone. How is one supposed to believe? Anyways, i do not intend to quarrel with you in this forum.

Anyone on this planet knows that each case is handled differently. People who are troubled by the visa procedures and dont exactly know, are hoping to extract information about what other peoples experiences were. Even if their personal case might actually take months, it gives them atleast hope by sharing other peoples experiences and avoiding mistakes what others might have done. Maybe its time you learn to be a bit humble and be more empathetic towards other people rather than expecting others to just blindly believe what you say.
All the best

@itrust and @strangerules,

From my wife's dependent visa application experience at German Consulate Mumbai in December 2010, I can share following things:

• In our case it took about 5 months from visa application to getting a visa stamped on passport
• Regarding marriage verification, you just have to wait 8 - 12 weeks. In our case it took around 10 weeks.
• During marriage verification process, we called 3 or 4 times to the concerned visa officer at Mumbai and she was nice enough to reply. So may be you can call and ask for status.

Gruß

Hello @strangerules,

have you got any update from cosulate on your visa application.

I tried a lot to contact the channai cosulate, they have their call cneter running only for 1 hour in a day. Untill now no suceess, I just want to have the confirmation from them that the documents reached and they started the process but no success.

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Hi itrust

Yes we got a letter from the local AB exactly 5 weeks after the visa application process. The week before that we had called up the Mumbai embassy and the lady there told us to wait or contact the AB directly. She never confirmed to us whether the marriage has been verified and just said we have to wait.
I have got a letter from the local AB to show my documents in the third week of this month. (Unfortunately the appointment could not be earlier as apparently it is holiday season). I have been asked to show the same documents which we have already submitted.. talk about Bureaucracy! Anyways,
lets see what will happen and hopefully this wait will end. I would suggest you not to call the call-center but the visa official directly or write them an email.
You can also contact your local AB. Hope it helps and wish you luck

hello all,

our waiting for the completion of marriage verification is still going on, curently 7th week is going on. Mean while I am trying to reach the german consulate chennai just to confirm if they received our documents, as they are original documents we are a bit worried.

Did any one ever able to contact the geman consulate office via phone (callcenter 1 hr a day) or via email?
I am trying from last 4 weeks and success untill now.

Thanks

Generally they say 8-12 weeks for marriage verification. It appears you have hit the other end of the deadline.
Might be you have to wait a week or so again...
We never submitted the original documents. They just took it for verification and gave it back to us then
and there itself. Never heard of anyone submitting the documents in original at the embassy.

Try contacting your local AB. In my case we never got any confirmation of marriage certification
verification from the consulate. I directly got an appointment with the local AB once they had my documents here
That took about 5 weeks from the date of application.

In case of Chennai Consulate they ask for original document and some snaps. Even the verification cost is a bit high, it is 20,000€. It is 11 weeks from the date of our application. They informed us about verification 4 weeks after the application submission.

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It is standard time for chennai to take 8 -12 weeks for verification after submission of verfication fees. In one  recent case I know it took 3.5 months. 

fees should be 20000 INR and hopefully not Euros. They will ask to collect the originals when verification is over.

sorry it was in INR.
regarding originals they mentioned in the email that they will send it by registered post.

We asked the mumbai embassy specifically regarding the duration and they said  the verification would take 8-12 weeks from the date of payment of fees.
So i guess you still might have to wait a week or more until you hear from them. It is bad i know but so it is. We all have to sail the same boat. Wish you luck. 20000 re/ is a lot. I am actually surprised that so much money is being taken and they still dont deal with it quickly.

20,000 INR??? This is utter non sense. Please check the Chennai consulate webpage, for latest info. It is 60 Euros( 4100 INR Approx). Please dont spread, wrong information. After all it is a forum.
http://www.india.diplo.de/contentblob/3241714/Daten/1588152/fz_spouse.pdf

Please read the mails in the correct fashion before publishing your comments. It seems you have completely misunderstood.
After all it is a forum :-D.

Strangerules is right...20.000 Rs is for documents verfication for family reunion Visa and 60 Euro is Visa fee

Who pays this 20000 Rs?? what do u mean by verification charge?