Harassment & Exploitation for German PR Applicants

      Indians living and settled in German, when they merry to an Indian life partner and start process to call their spouse to German, it is such a tedious and full of unnecessary harassments that it give them feel of as if they did crime while marrying in India and exploited at every step by different persons, moreover if he/she is resident of Punjab or states situated on distance from New Delhi then it’s really frustrated task to submit application and verification of documents. It is because recently I was attached with a German resident who prepared documents to call his wife for permanent resident category.
     Very first step to submit application in the embassy, it requires countless heavy bundle of documents which applicants has to submit along with application but prepare at its own (no doubt requirement form is available online at German Embassy site, but despite following every steps and not clear in nature applicants get objection at least three to four times minimum, and once any objection made then applicant has to get new appointment from its noida office then can visit. Embassy to submit application).Despite giving specific time to applicants for interview often not called inside on time. When applicants enters in the embassy then embassy officials not deal as a true guide liner instead often try to raise objection and reject the papers at least three to four times and there I not found any applicants who succeed to submit papers very first time, then applicant asked to come again after completing the formalities plus with fresh appointments. Lack of proper guideline and unnecessary objections by German embassy’s concerned officers (which are unfortunately Indians) often are baseless as below are two examples-

• One applicant get two times objection because of ration card and it could be told to applicant to complete the formalities which they think are incomplete in nature, thus can save time, money and long journey period to New Delhi.
• Another applicant get objection two times because of spouse passport photocopies, attender at embassy once asked to get the photocopy of spouse passport not told to come with all the pages but next time raise objection to come along with all the pages of spouse passport whether it is blank or have stamp.

Along with it German Embassy collects 15,000 Rupees from Delhi residents as verification fees and 20,000 Rupees from outside Delhi applicants and second step/formality turns into exploitation, when within set time of eight to ten weeks of verification of documents their authorise person who visit applicants mentioned address then instead of visiting different location for verification of different documents, concerned person seeks money from applicant which is as per speculations it is close to 10,000 to 15,000 rupees and if applicant handover the desire money then authorise person okay every document without going through the verification process but at the same time if applicants denies to give money then they get unnecessary , intolerable and hard time to convince the person that their documents are genuine and sometime gets response from embassy as deny of visa. Certainly Embassy has not such intention but Indian officials appointed at embassy creating problems for Indians.
      It is the responsibilities and liabilities of the German Consulate in India to check and take care of formalities make for applicants which they go through should be genuine and proper way and applicants neither harass by their recruited employees nor create unnecessary problems for PR applicants. Problems face by applicants at the time of submitting application and get objection three to four times should get clear direction to come up with particular set of fulfillment of documents (if it possible then on the pattern of visitor visa they have VFS office at Chandigarh to collect and prepare documents) for PR applicants such offices’ should be open in every states to minimize the problems of PR applicants, plus once the application submitted at embassy then verification of documents process should be fair and for the benefits of applicants a complaint box or email id should be create which deals on priority basis of complaints, then it will make fear in the mind of corrupt officials of embassy, otherwise PR applicants will keep on grind in the mixer of corrupt officer and feel the heat of harassment and exploitation.