This was my personal Experience in booking an appointment for German Family visit visa and family reunion visa.
Family visit visa appointment booking:
For Family visit visa (Short term visa/Schengan visa) we should book an appointment at VFS Global service. My place of residence is Tamil Nadu so i have to book an appointment at Chennai VFS Global service. Once after preparing all the documents i checked for appointment slots at the below VFS site:
Procedure for booking appointment at VFS website.
Step 1:At first, if you are a new user then you have to sign up by providing your Name,mail id,Contact no, password.
Step 2:After registration you have to login in by providing your registered mail id and password.
Step 3:After successful login you will be forwarded to the Home page.
Step 4:In the home page ->left side menu bar ->choose Schedule appointment to book appointment .
Step 5:After choosing schedule appointment menu bar you will be asked to select some mandatory fields like visiting country, residing country, VFS center ,Visa category.
Step 6:After selecting all the mandatory fields click continue.
Step 7:In the next page you will be asked to fill the details about applicants.
Step 8:After filling applicants details click add applicant and then click continue.
Step 9:In the next page choose available date and select the time range based on your choice and click confirm.
Step 10:Your appointment will be booked. You will get an email confirmation for booking appointment.
I have booked my appointment in the month of December 2016. During that month, for tomorrow interview i was able to book an appointment today. But today i saw the appointments are available only after 3 days. So, if your documents are ready then book the appointment immediately.
If your documents are not ready till the appointment previous day then i request you to cancel the appointment or reschedule your appointment to some other day.
During my Family visit visa interview i have booked the appointment twice. I have not done any cancellation. But you can cancel or reschedule your appointment if your not able to attend the interview.
Family reunion visa appointment booking:
In the middle of September 2017 i decided to apply for family reunion visa. Then i made a google search to understand about the documents required for reunion visa. When i received the necessary documents i decided to book an appointment in the beginning of October 2017.
For long term visa we should book an appointment at German consulate General. My place of residence is Tamil Nadu so i have to book an appointment at Chennai German consulate General.
To know about the German Consulate General near to your home residence click the below link:
Chennai long term visa appointment booking link:
During family visit visa process, for tomorrow interview i was able to book an appointment today. I taught the same applies here also. So i did not bother about appointment booking. I concentrating only on preparing the necessary documents required for family reunion visa.
After preparing all the documents i decided and said to my self okay, come on let me book an appointment. When i looked at the Chennai German consulate general appointment page i got shocked. There was no appointment till November Middle. I dunno what to do. I surfed online related to this topics but i din get any clear answer. So i called to Chennai German consulate general to enquire about this. But they told me that i have to wait and check the website frequently for free slots. That day i din feel sleepy at all. Every 2 hours i checked the appointment page. Next day morning i got up at 5 am and checked the website i saw some slots free for next few days.I got very happy and booked an appointment after 1 week.After booking appointment i got confirmation mail.
Again i checked the website at 8 am every slots were booked. There were no free slots till November middle. Due to some reason i was not able to attend the interview after 1 week so i cancelled the appointment. In the appointment confirmation mail itself there will be link to cancel the appointment. Click that link to cancel the appointment. I cancelled the appointment in the morning. Before cancelling the appointment i looked at the appointment page, till November end there was no free slots. After cancelling my appointment i looking at the appointment page there was no update regarding my cancellation. Then i understood that the website data is getting updated at the night. Next day morning i saw my cancellation got updated. If you get up early morning between 4 am to 6 am then you can see some free slots. But book the appointment immediately. Otherwise you have to wait till next day morning.
This was my experience if you have different experience then i request you to share your experience as comment. Because these information might be useful for some one.
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