Khaled Al-Sebaei

Well, I am still waiting for the German consulate to issue my visa. I have been told that it should not take more than 12 days after the visa application. They are supposed to give me a call within this period of time in order for me to come and retrieve my passport (Reisepass). Since yesterday was the 13th day and I have not yet received a call till this moment. I had no choice but to go there yesterday and demand to know what’s taking so long.

I was there around 9:30 AM and I was told that they were still checking my hotel reservation and that the Hotel there in Germany had not responded back to them yet. Well that was it…their excuse did not sound logical nor respectful to me as amongst the documents that I submitted was a hotel booking paper.

Well, I guess there’s nothing to do now but wait and resign myself to adjourning Die Reise till March next year.

I was at the German consulate last Saturday at 10:00 AM. I did not get the chance to submit my papers as we’ve been told that they ran out of numbers so we’d have to come another time. It was a disappointment for me then but I did not give up and the evidence o that is that I headed to the HR dept. on the following day to inquire about the possibility of obtaining a medical insurance certificate in order to add it the visa-requirements dossier for it is one of the visa-requirements the consulate needs. It did not take long for me to get it; I actually received it one day later. Then I was truly grateful for I thought that my insurance cared was sufficient. It was Lubna—HR employee – who negated this idea beyond doubt. I have been also told my another co-worker named Islam that I could ask my travel agency to hand me the Hotel and Air-ticket voucher in order to present them the consulate as well. It turned out later that the Air-ticket is no problem but as for the Hotel reservation I will have to pay the full amount in advance then in case I did not get the visa I’ll be able to cancel my hotel reservation and get my money back minus a little amount according to their cancellation policy.

Anyways, I intend to go again to the Travel Agency next Tuesday and to the Consulate next Wednesday in order to see what can be done. Well, I think I am doing my part in order to make this work.

This website will definitely come in handy especially when I start learning Russian. I find it useful when you’re learning a new language for the first time. But, in my case it can not help me improve my German as my German Level is way higher than mango’s German.