Hi,
So my course in Bayreuth starts on Monday the 17th and I applied for my study visa over a month ago. I was told it will take 3 weeks to 3 months, however, looking at my friends experiences 3 weeks is normal.
So I opened a blocked account, put all my money in it, got my documents together and went to the embassy. 4 weeks later I hear that they are not happy wth my acceptance letter as it doesn’t have a seal on it. So I contacted the university who stamped the letter and sent it back to me to forward to the embassy, which I did. The stamp however was not a seal but rather a text stamp as the university do not seem to have a seal for official documents.
So today I called the embassy again and they said as my documents were incomplete (which they weren’t, considering that nowhere on any sight does it specify a seal needs to be present on the letter) that my application will once again take at least another 3 weeks to get any form of feedback. The problem I have is I need to enrol for my course on Friday, and there is no option for late enrolment.
I don’t understand what takes so long, or why I go back to the start of the pile once I submitted what they were asking for?
Any help or advice on how I can speed this along would be great. I have all my funds in a DB blocked account, I have health insurance and I have been paying rent on an apartment since 1 October. Also a simple phone call to the Uni would verify that I am accepted and am meant to start on Monday 17 October.
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