Appointment-System of the German Foreign Office — Beirut

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 ****Due to the COVID-19 pandemic our visa section is currently still working with limited capacities. However, we aim at helping you as quickly as possible. Appointments are being assigned for the next possible time slot, however it can taka a while (i.e. several months) until you will hear from us, due to the Corona measures in place. Thank you for your understanding.****

This appointment category is aimed at applicants who are actually and legally residing in Lebanon and who want to apply for a visa to study in Germany.

If you are going to STUDY in Germany and already hold an UNCONDITIONAL acceptance letter from a German university (not including admissions for language courses), you have the option to hand in your application through our service provider VFS global in Beirut Hamra. For this group of students waiting times for an appoinemtne are usually shorter there as opposed to waiting  for an Embassy appointment together with the applicants who cannot apply through VFS. If you choose to hand in your application through VFS global, don't forget to delete your entry on the Embassy's appointment waiting list. Further information can be found on https://visa.vfsglobal.com/one-pager/Germany/Lebanon/English/

If you want to apply for a WORK visa, this appointment list is NOT the right one for you. Please go two steps back (to the "Rk-Termin" start page) and register on the appointment list for work related visas (common list for Lebanon and Syria).

Please read through the following information thoroughly and apply it to your booking:

1. Please enter all information exactly according to your passport and in Latin letters. Otherwise an appointment cannot be assigned. 

2. Please double check all your entries before submitting the registration form. If you enter incorrect information, you will not be granted access to the Consulate and/or your application cannot be accepted.

3. Please enter your personal data in the respective fields of the online form only: Enter your date of birth in the field "DOB" and your passport number in the field "passport no.". The embassy reserves the right to cancel your registration without prior notice or block you from entering the embassy if the entries have been switched or entered falsely.

4. Your e-mail address must be spelled correctly, otherwise you will not receive your booking confirmation. Please check your spam/junk inbox, too.

5. You can enter additional information on your case in the form in the designated field. Please use this possibility if there is something special about your case that you have to tell us.* It is sufficient to write your remarks in the form, you don't need to send an additional e-mail after filling in the form.

After you have registered successfully, you will receive two emails:

a)   Within 30 minutes you will receive a confirmation email containing your reference number.

b)   As soon as you have been assigned an appointment, you will receive a separate email containing the exact date and time of your appointment.

Due to the high demand for appointments and our further limited capacities due to the pandemic, several weeks can pass between the two email notifications. Please refrain from enquiries during this time. 

Please use the time until the day of your appointment to prepare your visa application. This is in your own and also in our interest, because well prepared and complete application files can be processed the most quickly and smoothly.

Examples for what you can do already now:

- Check our website for information on what documents you need for your application.

- Prepare these documents thoroughly (including: filling in the application form, making copies, etc). 

- Take care of necessary legalisation of Lebanese certificates. Appointments for legalisation are available through our service provider VFS in Beirut Hamra. Getting an appointment directly from VFS is free of charge!

- Make sure that you will be able to finance your studies in Germany. It has become harder to transfer funds from a Lebanese bank account to a German blocked account under the current circumstances. Please assemble information regarding your possibilities from different Lebanese banks and other financial service providers. You can also ask relatives/trusted friends in Germany, whether they are willing to guarantee for your expenses that might occur during the entire time of your stay in Germany by signing an official guarantee letter (Verpflichtungserklärung) - they can get more information on this from their Ausländerbehörde (Foreigners' Office).

- Learn German. – Even though the Goethe Institute is currently not offering group language courses at their school in Beirut, you have plenty of possibilities to learn German: Do exercises with German family members and friends, look for online learning possibilities (a lot of offers are free of charge), listen to German radio or watch German TV - there are many programmes in "easy German" that are produced especially for language learners, etc. There are many ways to prepare for your language exam at the Goethe Institute and - even more importantly - for your move to Germany. 

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* In what cases should I use the "Important notes regarding your case" field in the appointment registration form?

A few examples of things that you should definitely tell us in the form: 

- You got a scholarship. What kind of scholarship is it?

- You will be a PhD student.  

- You already got a pre-approval from the Ausländerbehörde (Foreigners' Office) in Germany.

And here are some examples of remarks/information we don't need you to enter: 

- Questions about what documents are required. --> This kind of information is available on our website in German and Arabic, please use it.

- Requests for priority processing of your file based on the fact that you have been waiting so long already due to COVID-19. --> We are aware of this and really understand your situation. We ask you to understand also, that we are already processing all applications as quickly as possible. Please keep in mind that a request to prioritize your application is at the same time a request to let other people wait longer. In comparable cases we will not be giving you priority over other cases just because you asked. At the same time we can promise you that we will also not give other comparable cases priority over your case just because they asked for it.

- Requests for info when the appointment will be scheduled. --> You will be informed automatically via e-mail.

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