Appointment-System of the German Foreign Office — Accra
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Welcome to the online appointment system for short-term visa of the German Embassy in Accra
In the following you can register for a short-term visa/Schengen visa (max. 90 days).
Please note that the German Embassy does not collaborate with any agents, agencies, or intermediaries for the booking of appointments. The registration for a short-term-visa-appointment is free of charge.
To register for an appointment, you will need:
- personal data (including passport number)
- a valid email address that remains active up until and including the day of the appointment and which you personally can access
The registration for an appointment will only take a few minutes.
- Please enter all information exactly as shown in your passport and use the Latin alphabet.
- Please register each applicant individually.
- You may book an appointment for only one reason for travel.
Kindly take your time to read the information carefully.
- Each applicant including minor children must have a separate registration.
- To register for an appointment can be done fast and conveniently by yourself. This service is offered free of any charge. If desired, an appointment can also be registered by a trusted third party (e.g. the person inviting you or your business partner in Germany etc.).
- In order to avoid any malpractice only one registration can be booked per person. A new registration can only be allocated after a period of one month.
- Please make your registration well in advance. The waiting time for an appointment can take up to several month.
- Visa applications should be handed in at least 15 days ahead of your desired travel time. It is possible to apply for your Schengen visa up to 6 months in advance of your journey.
- The processing time for short-term visa applications will usually take about 15 days after handing in the application.
- please select the required visa category on the next page.
- You cannot use your appointment for a different visa category.
- On the day of your appointment, the application can generally only be submitted in person.
In the following step, please select carefully the category of the visa you wish to apply for as your appointment.
Applicants with bookings in the wrong category will not be accepted. You can select between:
- Appointment for Schengen Visa and Airport Transit Visa (all purposes, except tourism - please click here for more information -)
- Appointments for Schengen Visa for tourism
- Appointments for Schengen Visa for privileged groups, prior walk-ins - please click here for more information -
You have to book an appointment in this category, if you want to apply for a National Visa to stay in Germany for more than 90 days or take up permanent residence, for the following purposes:
- (Scientific) Research
- Qualification measures
- Recognition of foreign qualifications
- Language courses (without further studies)
- Au-Pair / Voluntary Work
- Re-entry (after loss of passport or expiration of residence permit)
- Family reunion to a holder of a German scholarship / holder of a Blue Card EU (if they are applying together with the spouse/parent or within 6 months after the spouses'/parents' entry in Germany with the relevant Blue Card or scholarship visa)
Please note that the passport number of the applicant is a mandatory field. If the passport number of the applicant is not entered correctly, the appointment is considered null and void.
Visa requirements for family reunion
Please bear in mind that you need to register every applicant (that also applies if you apply together with a child).
1. Family reunion for children. You need to apply for this visa if a child is supposed to join one or both parent(s) in Germany.
2. Family reunion - joining a German (unborn) child. You need to apply for this visa if the mother or the father of a German (unborn) child wants to join this German child in Germany. It also applies if the parent wants to move to Germany together with the (unborn) child.
3. Visa application for an intended marriage in Germany. You need to apply for this visa if you have a fiancé(e) in Germany and are planning to get married after the arrival in Germany.
4. Family reunion – joining a spouse. You need to apply for this visa if you want to join your spouse in Germany.
It is essential that you read the information provided on our website carefully. You should only book an appointment once you are in possession of all the required documents. In case that the documents are not complete at the time of your interview, your application cannot be accepted and a new appointment has to be booked.
If you do not have residence in Germany anymore, but in Ghana, Sierra Leone or Liberia, the German Embassy in Accra is your competent passport office.
If you recently moved to Ghana, you should apply for a change of residence in your passport by showing the deregistration certificate from your former city of residence.
Every applicant has to appear personally (also minors).
PLEASE NOTE: if you are applying for the first German passport of a child which was NOT born in Germany, often a paternity acknowledgement and almost always a name declarartion are legal procedures which have to be completed BEFORE the passport application.
You can book appointments for the following services at the German Embassy:
- Recognition of paternity
- Consent of the mother to a recognition of paternity
- Declaration on shared custody
- Registry of birth in Germany
- Registry of marriage in Germany
- Name declaration
- recognition of a foreign divorce in Germany
- declaration of inheritance in Germany
- authentificaton of copies
- authentificatoin of copies for study purposes
- certificates for driver's licence purposes
- certficates for pensions
- police clearance certificates
- tax clearance certification