1. Minimum time is 3 weeks.

2. Do NOT resign till you get the visa approval.  Your employer will wait for you till you get your visa.

Good luck

Hi Sachin ..

I have applied on 23 rd May 2014 ... Still I have also not received any feedback from German Consulate..

My personal suggestion is to resign once you have Visa in hand..

Santhu...

Hi All ,

Is their any way we can followup the status of the Visa application.

( Calling the help line is not much helpful) 

Santhu....

Hello Santhu,

It's just been 9 working days since you applied the Visa application. You may have to wait for few more days before raising up with Helpdesk.

Babu Kilari

Hey Santhu,

Did you write any covering letter during you visa ?.

yes We wrote the covering letter while submitting the application form.

Dear All,

I am little confused and I need your guidance again. Please help me.

My current company wants me to go Munich in Schengen VISA. But I have already applied for my employment VISA.Its been 6 weeks now.

So , can I apply for Schengen VISA to germany now?
Will it impact the Employment VISA process?
If I get the VISA approval and the consulate asks me to get the VISA stamped and during the same time, If I am in Germany, can I delay it for 1 month to get my passport stamped. 

How long I can delay, if I get my VISA approved today and received the mail from consulate, till I get it stamped on my passport?

Please let me know if anybody has any idea about it.

Thanks,
Santhosh.

Do we really need to cancel the work permit. I was thinking these two are independent process.

@Santhu ,
HI My case is some what similar I have applied the German WP dependent visa together but my spouse and duaghters have not yet come its already 6 weeks over . Mine i got in just 4 days . im already in germany.
So i was thinking can i apply for Schengen VISA at the same time and get my family here till they get the dependent visa .And how long it will take for the dependent visa to come . Im not getting any status on thi s. Please let me know anything if you are aware of this.

u will have to cancel the dependent visa and apply for schenghen 

HI Cebit , 

How can i track my german  national visa application status online using the acknowledgement number . 
I tried to contact though email and phone but no response from consulate.
I trhied in the VFS link there it is asking for  reciept no .where acknoledgement no didnt match

call the foreigners office in your cityl

But i tried visting to Auslander office in Germany but didnt get any response and also tried calling several times .